Washington

From 1976: Spokane was feeling the impact of a nationwide Teamsters Union strike.

 As the Trump administration continues its mass immigrant detention and deportation effort, city and county officials across the Seattle region have approved various bans on new or expanded immigration detention centers.

From 1976: Experts were issuing more warnings about the safety of the aquifer beneath the Spokane Valley.

A recent spike in citations driven by Spokane’s new homelessness laws comes at a “critical moment” when public defenders are already faced with stricter limits on caseloads, city officials warned Monday.

HUNTERS, Wash. – Chatter and giggles spill from a tiny yellow library in a rural town of about 300 people, where kids and adults are busy turning milk jugs into mini greenhouses.

Spokane officials are considering building the city’s strangest roundabout at the southeastern gateway to the city to prepare the intersection for future population growth.

Before dogsled racing was ever on her radar, Mikki Douglass spent her winters skiing around her rural property near Cle Elum, Washington, leisurely towed by her Labrador on a leash.

Pioneer businessman Stephen M. Smith came to Spokane in 1889 after growing up in Pittsford, New York, where he went to the College of Embalming in New York City to learn the funeral business. When he got to Spokane, he started a funeral business, first as Smith & Luce Undertakers and Embalmers, then just Smith and Co. His first businesses were located in the Blalock and Bavaria buildings.

Bloomsday Perennials greeted each other like long lost friends Saturday night at a private opening night reception for the “14 Million Miles: 50 Years of Bloomsday” exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

From 1976: The University of Idaho’s football games were in danger of becoming a lot quieter.

Brian Kenna, 63, was in junior high when the first Bloomsday run was held in 1977. He remembered race founder Don Kardong doing well in the Olympics and was inspired to sign up. He never stopped.

From 1976: A new, distinctive building opened in Seattle: the King County Domed Stadium, aka the Kingdome.

Inflation finally has caught up with the Girl Scouts in Spokane.

A slice of Michigan is coming to southwest Spokane as crews work to install a second “J-turn” on U.S. Highway 195, this time along the intersection with Meadowlane Road south of the Eagle Ridge development and the Qualchan golf course.

Over the next year, Spokane will contract with local nonprofit Mujeres in Action to improve its responses to domestic violence and sexual assault calls when victims do not speak fluent English.