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City leaders agree Spokane needs to use less water. But how can they convince residents and businesses?

Spokane leaders are contemplating how to encourage conservation in a city that uses more water per capita than 98% of the United States. On...

Then and Now: High Bridge Park

High Bridge Park was the name given in 1913 to the area that follows Latah Creek from Vinegar Flats, south of Interstate 90, to...

100 years ago in Spokane: Daily road condition reports on the way for mud-phobic motorists

Motorists in the region would soon be getting a new service – a daily report on highway conditions in the Northwest. This was the...

45 new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday in Spokane County

There were 45 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Spokane County on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections during the pandemic to 38,482,...

Shawn Vestal: Racist groups ramped up a 'barrage of propaganda' in 2020

When a neo-Nazi spray-painted Spokane’s Temple Beth Shalom with swastikas and other hateful graffiti, he said he was trying to recruit more people to...

Our pandemic past: Inland Northwest leaders share their memories of when COVID-19 took over everyday life

The pandemic’s arrival in the middle of March 2020 ushered in a period of concern, uncertainty and furious planning. The expectation at that moment,...

'Some Zag spirit': Gonzaga reimagines 'Tent City' to give students a long-awaited taste of the Kennel

Gonzaga University’s Kennel Club Board expected immediate interest in the idea they’d been working on since January: a pandemic-friendly way to recreate the classic...

Policing analysis ordered by Spokane finds smaller racial disparities than reported before

A statistics analysis commissioned by the Spokane Police Department found less evidence of racial discrimination than prior analyses, according to the report published this...

In front of the mask: An attitude, and opinion, an expression of joy

Our masks have morphed. Still a tool against coronavirus spread, the fabric of our lives now stretches across the nose and mouth in increasingly...

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