Bloomsday Perennial Jack Tenold, who has been fighting Stage 4 lung cancer since 2024, finished his most recent Bloomsday with his family by his side and an oxygen concentrator on his back. He already knows he won’t be able to do the 50th Bloomsday in May.
The stadium that was later named for sports booster Joe Albi opened as Spokane Memorial Stadium in 1950. Intended for multiple uses, one of the first events was the Apple Cup between the Washington State Cougars and the Washington Huskies. It had been 40 years since the Apple Cup was played at a Spokane venue.
As Election Day approaches, Spokane County Elections Manager Mike McLaughlin is encouraging people to slip their sealed ballots into white ballot boxes that sit outside of local libraries and government buildings rather than mailing them in.
From tuna fish cans to ramen noodles, Salvation Army staff and volunteers dumped donated food items into white cardboard boxes under a light rain Saturday as part of the organization’s one day “emergency food drive.” The effort was sparked by the murky future of federal food assistance and a record-breaking turnout at the Salvation Army’s Spokane food pantry last month.
Amid increasing pressure from licensed food vendors and food safety advocates, Yakima Health District officials are considering more staff time, funds and collaboration to crack down on unlicensed food vendors.
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a record-setting payout to three teachers who developed brain damage and other illnesses after being exposed to toxic PCBs at a Monroe school.
A Tacoma woman and her ex-boyfriend who died in a homicide-suicide earlier this month sought protection orders against each other for domestic violence, court records show. Diana Pham, 39, died from a gunshot wound to the head on Oct. 17 near the 700 block of South 38th Street in Tacoma. Her death was ruled a homicide, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office. The man’s ...
On a square black velvet cloth, Lesly Ellis carefully shapes grains of rice in honor of the Mayan calendar symbol for this year’s Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead.
From 1975: Mayor David H. Rodgers came out in full support of a controversial proposal to sell the city’s stray dogs to Washington State University’s veterinary school for medical research.
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse blasted the firing of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top executive in Washington state for ag loans, disaster relief and other programs, as a shortsighted “mistake.”
A Pasco man accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Thursday to time served and three years of supervised release for weapons charges unrelated to the Capitol attack. Taylor Taranto was pardoned earlier this year by President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in the riot. In May, Taranto was convicted of making a hoax threat to bomb a ...
