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‘It’s a miracle’: 11-year-old Post Falls boy recovering at home after life-threatening Easter motorcycle crash

UPDATED: Wed., April 23, 2025

Two days after a life-threatening motorcycle crash left 11-year-old Tatum Newbauer in the intensive care unit with several broken bones, concussed and wrapped in casts, the “sassy stinker pants” was home cracking jokes.

News >  K-12 education

Spokane-area school districts brace for staffing adjustments, budget challenges as state mulls spending plan

Wed., April 23, 2025

As the Legislature enters the final week of its regular session, local school district officials wait with bated breath to see how much they’ll be allotted from the state’s two-year budget that has yet to be finalized.

News >  K-12 education

Orchard Prairie School District bond appears to pass in special election

UPDATED: Wed., April 23, 2025

Orchard Prairie School District appears to be getting a new school, election night results indicate.

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News >  Crime/Public Safety

Spokane County Fire District 8 levy passes in April special election

UPDATED: Tue., April 22, 2025

Voters in southern Spokane County approved a property tax increase to fund emergency medical response services in Fire District 8, election night results indicate.

News >  K-12 education

Mary Walker School District tax levy fails for the second time

UPDATED: Wed., April 23, 2025

SPRINGDALE, Wash. – Springdale-based school district Mary Walker won’t see a renewal on its property tax levy, election night results indicate.

A&E >  Beer/Drinks

No-Li, Spokesman-Review collaborate on limited edition beer: ‘What’s more American than the First Amendment?’

Wed., April 16, 2025

No-Li Brewhouse has whipped up a concoction that can quench one’s thirst for tangy craft beer and timely local news in one 12-ounce can.

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Publishers react to Spokesman-Review’s nonprofit course – served with beer – at News Industry Mega Conference

Wed., April 16, 2025

ORLANDO, Fla. – Newspaper executives took some of the first sips of an exclusive beer brewed by No-Li Brewhouse in partnership with The Spokesman-Review, an early case served at the News Industry Mega-Conference on Tuesday.

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Cowles family plans to donate The Spokesman-Review to local nonprofit

UPDATED: Thu., April 17, 2025

The Cowles family intends to donate The Spokesman-Review to a recently formed Spokane-based community nonprofit organization that plans to continue publishing the newspaper amid the changes and challenges roiling legacy media.

News >  K-12 education

Eyeing construction cost increases, historic Orchard Prairie School District asks voters again to pass a bond

UPDATED: Fri., April 11, 2025

The tiny and historic school district of Orchard Prairie is trying again at passing a bond to build a new school for its 79 students.

News >  K-12 education

Washington school sports authority will not change policy on transgender student athletes

UPDATED: Mon., April 7, 2025

Transgender female athletes will continue to play on girls teams in Washington school sports despite some school boards’ efforts to switch them to boys teams or create a league of their own.

News >  K-12 education

Feds may withhold school funding for ‘illegal DEI practices’; state contends WA schools are in compliance

Mon., April 7, 2025

Legal disagreements continue between Washington state and the federal government after a directive from the Trump administration warned that state education agencies could lose federal funding if they have diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

News >  Higher education

WSU Spokane considering up to 15% cuts amid university financial uncertainty

UPDATED: Mon., April 7, 2025

Washington State University leaders are preparing for cuts, particularly at their campus in Spokane, as they face federal grant freezes, a state budget deficit and lagging enrollment.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

CdA police looking for suspect in attempted ‘child enticement’

UPDATED: Sun., April 6, 2025

Officers from the Coeur d’Alene Police Department are searching for a man suspected of attempting to grab a young girl walking her dog.

News >  Higher education

WSU medical school celebrates 10th birthday, marking nearly 250 medical doctors graduated

UPDATED: Tue., April 1, 2025

Washington State University’s medical school celebrated its 10th anniversary on Tuesday.

News >  K-12 education

Mead School Board to discuss ‘noncompliant’ transgender students policy at Monday meeting

Mon., March 24, 2025

The Mead School Board will evaluate its “transgender students” policy at the next school board meeting Monday as it awaits potential backing from federal officials.

News >  K-12 education

No job is too small for Mt. Spokane High School principal, awardee of state principal of the year: ‘When you work for her, you feel valued’

UPDATED: Fri., March 21, 2025

Vacuuming floors isn’t often something advertised in a school principal’s job description. It may not be the first task one associates with leading 1,491 students and 83 teachers at a school.

News >  K-12 education

Spokane Public Schools to move ahead with property consolidation to save $5 million, maybe more if $200 million bond passes

Tue., March 18, 2025

The Spokane Public Schools board on Wednesday unanimously approved the first phase of the school district’s property consolidation plan that’s connected to, but not contingent upon passage of, its proposed $200 million bond for November ballots.

News >  K-12 education

On five-year anniversary of COVID shutdowns, schools and hospitals reflect on ever-present effects

Fri., March 14, 2025

Five years ago this week, the United States locked down to slow the spread of COVID-19. What was initially thought to be a short few weeks before children returned to school and businesses opened turned out to last for years and continues to reverberate today.

News >  K-12 education

State Superintendent weighs in on Mead School Board letter to feds: ‘Follow state law, follow state law and then if you’re not sure, follow state law’

UPDATED: Thu., March 13, 2025

With the Mead School Board saying it’s caught in a “legal dilemma,” Washington Superintendent Chris Reykdal cautioned the board to follow his guidance as the Trump Administration’s executive orders continue to contradict Washington civil rights laws.

News >  K-12 education

Mead School District implores feds to help solve ‘legal dilemma’ of state laws on gender policies that conflict with Trump’s executive orders

UPDATED: Tue., March 11, 2025

The Mead School Board is urging the federal government to step in as the Trump administration continues doling out directives on gender-identity issues that clash with Washington’s progressive state laws.

News >  K-12 education

Mead High School principal to resign, athletic director to take over

UPDATED: Tue., March 11, 2025

The Mead High School principal will resign her post at the end of this school year, she announced Tuesday.

News >  Spokane

Wrestlers flock to the Fox Theater at 40th anniversary ‘Vision Quest’ SpIFF showing

Mon., March 10, 2025

Released 40 years ago, it’s safe to say a lot has changed since Louden Swain jogged across Spokane’s bridges in the iconic opening of the film “Vision Quest.”

News >  Spokane

‘You’ve completed my childhood dream’: Kids’ letters addressed to Anne McClain reflect hopes, fears, jokes from Spokane and beyond

UPDATED: Mon., March 10, 2025

Are you scared to go to space? What does zero gravity feel like? Can you help me understand science? Would you be on my YouTube channel? Thousands of queries addressed to Army Col. Anne McClain, Spokane born and bred and soon bound for the International Space Station, poured in from Spokane and beyond in a letter writing campaign organized by McClain’s high school math teacher.

News >  K-12 education

Yasuhara Middle School NASA launch watch party ends with popsicles, no Anne McClain launch

UPDATED: Thu., March 13, 2025

Thirty or so kids at Yasuhara Middle School sat on the school’s massive stairs long after the final bell rang Wednesday.

News >  K-12 education

North Central senior surprised with coveted UW Presidential Scholarship

UPDATED: Tue., March 4, 2025

Something intangible woke North Central senior Atasha Velarde on the first of March.