Olive Pete

Current Position: intern reporter

Olive Pete joined The Spokesman-Review in June of 2024 as a summer high school intern as part of the Teen Journalism Institute. This program is funded with a grant from Bank of America. She is a senior at Lewis and Clark High School.

Email: olivep@spokesman.com
Phone: (509) 459-5158

Most Recent Stories

A&E > Dining

First, Revival Tea Company expanded its food menu into Phoenix Cafe. Next? 50 more tea locations nationwide.

Wed., Aug. 28, 2024

Revival Tea Co. launched a new cafe with acai, coffee, boba tea, toast and grab-and-go bites on Spokane’s busiest weekend of the year.

Sports > Area sports

Spokane Zephyr prep for first home game Saturday: ‘These women know they are the beginning, but that’s just the start’

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 13, 2024

Spokane's first professional women's soccer team is breaking boundaries for women in sports.

A&E > Art

15 Spokane artists transform concrete wall into city’s longest mural

Thu., Aug. 8, 2024

Fifteen friends integrated in Spokane’s art scene grew together in July and August, creating the city’s largest mural.

Sports > Area sports

‘A different sense of belonging’: In Hooptown USA, the 509 Syndicate creates a community for soccer

Tue., July 30, 2024

While the stands of One Spokane Stadium rumble as Velocity FC starters walk on the pitch, superfans Jessica Prewitt and Siri Throm-Saxe’s chants are still audible.

News > Local business

There’s still time to Find Waldo in Spokane as part of beloved annual business event

UPDATED: Wed., July 24, 2024

Waldo is hiding in some of Spokane’s most popular local businesses, waiting to be spotted.

News > Nation/World

Has VP Harris’ planted her ‘coconut trees’ in Spokane? Here’s what it could mean for young voters during the ‘Brat’ season

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 1, 2024

Three months before Vice President Kamala Harris found herself in the middle of a recent social media blowup referencing the green-colored Charli xcx album “Brat,” Spokane resident Lucy Reed dyed parts of her dark hair lime green.

News > Agriculture

Weird winter weather was the pits for Green Bluff peaches and cherries

UPDATED: Tue., July 23, 2024

Local farms are working hard to counteract the negative effects of last winter's weather on their crops.

News > Sci/Tech

Hundreds treated to the ‘disgusting’ and ‘gooey’ spectacle of a shark dissection at the Mobius

UPDATED: Thu., July 18, 2024

For 9-year-old Metta Olson, watching a shark dissection at the Mobius Discovery Center each summer is becoming a tradition.

News > K-12 education

How Spokane Farmers Markets are encouraging healthy habits in the youth

Tue., July 16, 2024

It’s fresh produce season in Spokane, and KERNEL is keeping children engaged and educated at local farmers markets.