Um hi, school board members are elected officials, thanks.

In a jail interview Tuesday, the 18-year-old accused of plotting an attack on Coeur d'Alene churches in the name of ISIS, said he radicalized himself online. “The point was to kill until I was killed," he said. From me, @dugganreports & elena perry spokesman.com/stories/2024/a…

BREAKING: WSU President Kirk Schulz just announced he will be retiring in June 2025. He’s served as the university's top brass since 2016, and the search for WSU's 12th president is expected to begin immediately. Story to come.

Today— "It's a solemn feeling in town today," a parent from Moses Lake told me this morning. His wife is one of the over 100 educators who will lose their position with Moses Lake School District to compensate for the $20 million budget deficit. I will have more information

Although Free Press was my favorite, this certainly caught my attention as most unique. Red is a punch color and this certainly worked. /19

A Nexis database search of hundreds of news sources for the term “did not respond to a request for comment” returned 728 mentions in May 2014. The same search for May 2019 produced 1,590 hits. In May of this year, the number had grown to 3,616…

free food for kids by Alexandria Osborne

Spokane Public Schools will ban cell phone use in classrooms for their near 30,000 students starting next year. Middle and elementary schoolers won't be able to use them at lunch. Read more, never paywalled: spokesman.com/stories/2024/j…

Spokane-area politicians past, present and potentially future weighed in on Biden’s announcement he’s ending his campaign. Some advocated for Harris to replace him, others had a different vision for the next candidate. No paywall: spokesman.com/stories/2024/j…

WSU vet students took in 15 orphaned barn owlets after their habitat was destroyed, reporting by Cannon Barnett They're now living in nesting boxes in the horticulture center where vet students feed them using puppets and wearing camo ghillie suits spokesman.com/stories/2024/j…

Had a great time with this feature on WSU's amazing insect collection! spokesman.com/stories/2024/a…

When school starts this September, Spokane students will not be allowed to use their phones during the most of the day. spokesman.com/stories/2024/a…

This week E&E News ran a piece by Scott Waldman and Tom Frank on the Malden fire and the federal response. It's a story Emma Epperly and Orion Donovan Smith broke three years ago here at The Spokesman-Review Here's our local report. Also, yes, we're back. spokesman.com/stories/2021/j…

“It’s hard to explain what a tree means, but it’s terribly, terribly important for me.” A sapling from the tree that gave Anne Frank solace in hiding, as recounted in her famous diary, is coming to Spokane. Really cool story from elena perry. bit.ly/40EqFbN

"Even though I know that another thing will bring me more joy, it's just so addicting. It's like a shackle that you just want to do that instead," one eighth-grader told elena perry. These well-spoken kids are evidently taking to campus phone bans: bit.ly/4a2Ym9t

If freshly inaugurated Gov. Bob Ferguson’s first address to the Legislature extended an olive branch to Republicans, GOP leadership accepted it with vigor and surprise. // story by elena perry spokesman.com/stories/2025/j…