Typically, December through March is the off-season for roofers – a time to rest, train and prepare for the next roofing season. This year, that was not the case locally.

The current end date for the project is 2029, but Spokane legislators are hoping for an acceleration of that timeline, if new transportation funds pass in the state Legislature this year.

Tija Danzig, a senior manager in the city’s Community Housing and Human Services Department, left the city to accept a job at the nonprofit Americares, leaving a hole in a department that already had a reputation for being heavily relied upon by the city.

As one of many new brick-and-mortar outlets, the first Spokane store opened in 1930 at 906 W. Main Ave. The bright, white modern building with a central tower in art deco style contrasted with the stodgy brick department stores that came before.

The attractions included several elaborate exhibits, including Newman Lake's display, titled, “An Old Timer’s Camp at Honeymoon Bay.”

We are at the crossroads of three areas: politics, religion, and the wellbeing of our planet. Members of certain religions often subscribe to political ideologies about the environment. Why are we politicizing something we all live on?

The new cases brings Spokane County's two-week case rate to 222 per 100,000 residents, according to the health district. The health district reported 30 people were hospitalized Sunday due to COVID-19.

Companies including Microsoft and IBM have been developing software intended to make it easier to determine whether someone has been vaccinated against COVID-19. But the prospect of proving one's defenses against the global pandemic has some lawmakers and privacy advocates skittish about the prospect of "vaccine passports," a phenomenon that's existed in some form in the United States since outbreaks of smallpox in the 19th century. 

WASHINGTON – On March 25, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers faced the CEOs of three of the world’s most powerful tech companies in a virtual hearing.

March Madness Twitter was abuzz last month as the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team nearly made history.

The future of Eastern Washington University’s athletics department will not be decided by Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey.

State may auction off press houses, but will demolish them if there are no takers.

After months of stalemate, the city is nearly ready to commission a study of fluoridating its water supply.

The state Senate has unanimously passed a bill to create a dedicated fund to prevent and fight wildfires in Washington.

Dense storm clouds rolled into Colville around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, an hour and a half before 18-year-old Dale Martin was scheduled to be taken off life support.

More than two years after a charter bus carrying members of the University of Washington marching band rolled onto its side on an icy stretch of Interstate 90, a King County Superior Court jury awarded four students injured in the crash more than $1.4 million Thursday.

It takes more than a dozen people to roll over a 900-pound sleeping polar bear.