Local government

Spokane City Councilwoman Lili Navarrete will not run for a new term this year, citing health concerns, she announced Tuesday in a news release.

It’s a bold move to question the basketball bona fides of a city hosting an NCAA March Madness regional – especially when that city is Spokane.

The Spokane City Council is again weighing a law that would make it harder for prospective employers to discriminate against homeless job hunters.

The Spokane City Council has approved spending another $100,000 to fight the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of Robert Bradley, who was shot and killed by Spokane police officers in 2022.

Spokane voters may be asked later this year whether to re-enter a regional aquifer protection coalition that the city left 21 years ago, with most homewners paying no more than $15 per year – roughly the same they paid 40 years ago when the partnership first formed.

The Spokane Valley City Council is considering asking voters to approve a sales tax measure this fall that would be used to meet the city’s stated priority of bolstering its police department.

A pair of opportunities have opened up for Airway Heights residents to get involved in the governance of their community.

Roughly 100 protesters carrying signs and bullhorns gathered outside of the German-American Society’s Deutsches Haus near downtown Spokane on Wednesday evening, where U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner was hosting “Baumtoberfest,” a $125-per-plate fundraising dinner organized by his congressional campaign.

The Spokane City Council will be asked Monday to spend another $100,000 fighting the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of Robert Bradley, who was shot and killed by Spokane police officers in 2022.

Long-simmering tension between the city of Spokane and the state Department of Transportation over the strained road network of the Latah Valley may be boiling over amid sharp disagreement about how to manage an upcoming 1,000-home development.

The seats of two liberal and one conservative Spokane City councilmembers – not quite half of the council – are up for election this year.

Gesa Credit Union will purchase title sponsorship rights to the U.S. Pavilion for $2.6 million over the next 10 years.

Sometimes trying to “work smarter, not harder” accomplishes neither.

The day will soon come when Spokane residents learn which company is planning to spend $2.6 million over the next 10 years to have its name attached to the U.S. Pavilion.

Spokane County is putting nearly a million dollars toward a local nonprofit’s efforts to expand treatment and recovery services, as part of a partnership intended to curb local impacts of the opioid epidemic.

A nonprofit that assists refugees who come to the Spokane area to escape war, persecution and natural disasters has issued layoffs to all 15 members of its staff who assist the newly arrived.

The family that ran a former private resort and once battled Spokane County over operations of a public park at Fish Lake is selling the last of its adjacent property for park expansion.

Spokane County and its largest city haven’t had the best of relationships in recent years.

Recent rainfall and snowmelt highlighted why residents of Spokane Valley’s Painted Hills neighborhood are in opposition to a developer’s plan to convert a defunct 100-acre golf course into housing.