How did WSU players and coaches spend their first of two bye weeks?

PULLMAN – Around this time of year, Jimmy Rogers is learning to walk a fine line, a tightrope above a canyon. Last week was his Washington State team’s first of two bye weeks on the season, giving the ...

Three Starbucks locations in Spokane close after billion dollar restructuring plan announcement

Starbucks is closing three of its 29 locations in Spokane and its popular Ritzville coffee shop just off Interstate 90.

Spokane Chiefs notebook: Berkly Catton sticks with Kraken; power outage on power play

Monday was NHL roster cut-down day, and with that came the news that 19-year-old Berkly Catton made the opening night roster of the Seattle Kraken. The move carries ramifications for both the Kraken ...

A Grip on Sports: It’s always important to take notes, especially this time of the year when worlds are colliding

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Life is made up of big days and small ones. Days that go by slowly but add up quickly. Days that you put your head down and trudge through and days you sit wide-eyed, watching it ...

When is the 2025 Draconid meteor shower, where can you see it? What to know.

The Draconid meteor shower is set to begin on the same night as the supermoon, coinciding with the activation of two other meteor showers.

Ask the doctors: GERD, sinus infections and ear fullness can all be related

My nose has been plugged up for a few weeks from a sinus infection. Now my left ear is feeling full, and sounds are muffled. Can that be related? My dad says yes. (He has GERD; he says it has affected ...

As election day draws closer, two political newcomers are racing for the Deer Park City Council

In 1999, Bailey got his bachelor’s at Carson Newman University in Tennessee, where he double-majored in history and political science. Bailey returned to college in 2007 to pursue his master’s in ...

This day in history: A boy was being held in his parents’ shooting deaths, and a deadly fire broke out at an Indian boarding school

A 12-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the shooting death of his mother and the wounding of his stepfather in an RV campground just west of Cheney.

Spokane County saw 120 suicide deaths last year. New license plate emblems are aimed at raising awareness

As suicide deaths in Spokane County remain high, all county-owned vehicles will bear an emblem asking those in crisis to seek help.
Opinion

Letters for Tuesday, Oct. 7

Spokane voters in 2014, overwhelmingly approved the Riverfront Park bond and Parks delivered what was promised and more. In 2018, Spokane voters approved a Spokane Public Schools bond for six middle ...

Spokane council, mayor’s office look for urgent fix to homeless laws they passed three months ago

Three months ago, the Spokane City Council approved a new law backed by Mayor Lisa Brown outlawing the homeless from camping anywhere within city limits, though with numerous exceptions and an ...

Mariners will again be at a familiar crossroads in Detroit for Games 3 and 4

When the Mariners last found themselves in the Motor City, there was a fire that needed to be extinguished. Really. In the early hours of the day on the final morning of their three-game series in ...