Washington

When Alicia Thompson moved to Spokane at 14, the World’s Fair was already underway. For the teenager, the Lilac City was a magical place that “saved her life.”

Dodge City, the auto dealership at 920 W. Second Ave. was moved there by owner Clay S. Bleck in the early 1960s. He was born in Spokane but grew up in Portland. His father, Alfred H. Bleck, had been a sales manager at Eldridge Buick in Spokane in the early 1920s before building his own dealership in Portland. The younger Bleck served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as captain of a landing craft that saw action in Saipan, the Philippines, New Guinea, Okinawa and Iwo Jima. After his service, he attended Stanford University and studied economics and political science.

Few events have colored national politics as deeply as the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, stating that there is no Constitutional right to abortion and conferring authority to regulate the procedure to individual states.

If Bigfoot wanted to reveal himself, Metaline Falls, Washington, this past weekend would have been a fitting place to debut.

Expo ’74 celebrated Father’s Day by honoring a special guest: Sonora Smart Dodd, the woman who founded Father’s Day.

The Spokesman-Review noted that “one of the most charming things about Expo ’74” was the free entertainment that visitors could stumble upon throughout the fairgrounds.

A software engineer with a hot sauce company and the owner of a rage room are vying to replace Rep. Suzanne Schmidt in the state Legislature.

Anyone who has been to a Spokane-area yard sale or thrift store in the last 50 years has probably seen it.

Jun. 14—After more than 50 years in the classroom, Seattle Public Schools' longest-serving teacher is retiring from the post she's held teaching kindergartners at Orca K-8 for almost a half-century. Marletta Iwasyk, 84, started teaching in Seattle at 28. Over 56 years in the district, she's taught 49 classrooms of kindergartners at Orca. "I've never thought of this as work," Iwasyk said. "I ...

Jun. 14—Hazrat Ali Rohani didn't smoke or drink or swear. When the junior wasn't at Kent-Meridian High School, he was helping customers at his father's clothing store in Kent or watching over his five younger siblings, his father, Jamaluddin Rohani, said Tuesday. His son's death on June 5 after an off-duty security guard from Newcastle allegedly shot and killed the 17-year-old outside a Renton ...

Spokane was experiencing a heat wave, with temperatures in the 90s, and this posed a problem at Expo ’74.

Seven pools throughout the city of Spokane and the county will be open for the summer starting Monday.

The last time the state Building Code Council crafted rules for protecting homes from the threat of wildfire, city and county officials criticized them as confusing, expensive and overreaching.

The Spokane County Democratic Party has abruptly postponed its county convention scheduled for Saturday, when area Democrats would have adopted their first official party platform since the pandemic.

After beating Speaker of the House Tom Foley in 1994 as one of the stars of a GOP revolution, Nethercutt went on to serve 10 years in the House before an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate. He later set up a foundation to inspire a new generation.

Jun. 14—The Port of Tacoma is responsible for abiding by stormwater pollution-prevention measures across its entire enterprise, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit has ruled. A lawsuit brought against the Port of Tacoma and two of its tenants by environmental nonprofit Puget Soundkeeper Alliance argued the they violated the Clean Water Act in various respects by not ...

Before Molly Marshall could get to the specifics of her plan to deal with water pollution, the county commissioner candidate's press conference devolved into chaos as her supporters attempted to forcibly remove a provocateur from the audience.

For the first time in 22 years, Spokane’s Street Music Week is absent its founder, unrelenting advocate and star, Doug Clark.