Spokane

Sen. Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson visited Expo ’74 and held a news conference in which he raked President Richard M. Nixon and his advisers over the coals.

In the depths of the Great Depression, Spokane celebrated the start of the largest single-government construction project undertaken in the United States.

Expo ’74’s Lost and Found Office had already accumulated an impressive variety of left-behinds.

A big impact on the housing shortage could come in a tiny way.

The spring rains bring many things to the warming countryside, ushering in the rush of bright balsamroot flowers and purple sage, high flowing rivers as the dwindling winter snows melt off the mountaintops, and the early bushy blooms that portend berries in the summer yet to come.

Starting Wednesday, residents from all corners of Spokane County will have the opportunity to share their input on a plan that will guide growth, development and conservation in the region for the next few decades.

A shooting in downtown forced a long pause in the annual Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade late Saturday as police worked to secure the area and emergency crews treated two injured people.

The Spokane Chronicle ran a photo of Kristen Spakes, 3, of Denver, with one of Expo ’74’s enduring landmarks: the garbage-eating goat.

Dig, plant, fill, repeat.

The Spokesman-Review’s editorial page urged people to look beyond the obvious attraction at Expo ’74’s U.S. Pavilion.

A NASA astronaut, children of Expo ’74 visionary King Cole and, of course, the royal court will grace the streets of downtown Spokane on Saturday night as thousands take in the city’s largest parade.

Lewis and Clark High School senior Madeleine Froese never thought she would be the Lilac Queen of Spokane.

It’s lilac season in the Inland Northwest.

As a teen, Helen Kennett marched with the Shadle Park High School band in the Armed Forces Torchlight Parade.

A Spokane Chronicle writer said the Expo ’74 pavilions weren’t the only thrilling tourist sights. He said visitors were just as impressed by Spokane’s newly revamped downtown.

Actor Sean Astin is visiting Spokane to speak at a Women Helping Women fundraising event, and for the “Lord of the Rings” and “Stranger Things” actor, it’s a homecoming.

Spokane Valley City Councilman Al Merkel responded to the recently completed investigation into his conduct with city staff at a council meeting Tuesday, questioning whether elements of the investigation’s findings and the measures put in place during and after the probe may have been racial discrimination.

Spokane is one step closer to seeing $10 million in affordable housing units for refugees and the general public by 2025, without the use of tax dollars.

Expo ’74 had a de facto “complaint department” – the Guest Relations Department – but so far the complaints were few and mostly constructive.