Nearly half a century ago, the Environmental Protection Agency used the Toxic Substances Control Act to ban the use and production of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs…

There is a lot more to weed than just getting high…

When you take stock of all the performing and fine arts offerings around the region, there's little doubt that entertainment lovers are spoiled for choice…

PROPHET OF DOOM…

As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports execs contemplated health risks — and debated a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Seattle Sounders soccer match, emails show. By Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and David Gutman and Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times On March 6, at 2:43 p.m., the health officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, the hardest-hit region in the first state to be slammed by COVID-19, sent an email to a half-dozen colleagues, saying, “I want to cancel large group gatherings now.”…

Spokane chef Ricky Webster is bringing tips, recipes and good cheer from his kitchen to yours through a series of lighthearted cooking videos…

As a general rule, if you start spray-painting Riverfront Park, Riverfront Park gets mad at you…

Super Sparkle is returning to say au revoir…

The work of Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Mills (20th Century Women, Beginners) has always been grounded in an inescapable sense of empathy — for the world, the people who live in it, and the characters he crafts a film around…

For a few minutes there, I was about to make a huge mistake in contemplating Mark Rylance's performance in The Outfit: I was about to compare him to another actor…

In evaluating the films released thus far this year, it is hard to think of one that more closely aligns with about everything you would expect than The Lost City…

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is unlike anything else…

Fishtrap, Washington…

I don't realize it until I'm standing at the base of the steps of the United Brethren Church in Elberton, but I've made the hourlong drive from Spokane to the Whitman County ghost town on a Sunday…

GONZAGA MEN…

WASHINGTON STATE MEN…

The first time that pianist Sara Davis Buechner felt what she calls "the real spiritual power" of George Gershwin's music, she was 23 and building a reputation for virtuoso playing on the international concert circuit…

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't go home again…

Like the main characters of his latest book, author and journalist Nate Schweber is shaped by his upbringing in the Western United States…

A map of downtown Spokane's east end, circa 1910, would be barely recognizable to most locals today…

Forget rebuilding and reloading…

The Gonzaga Bulldogs went 2-0 last week, with wins over Dixie State and Texas. One of those games may as well have been a scheduled win, while the other was a marquee match-up of two top-five teams…

What even is a 2021 movie?…

It doesn't take long for a really old building to fall apart…

Don't even try to deny it, you're a total sucker for an animated children's movie…

Richard Weatherly has always had time on his side…

Soccer is the world's game — the beautiful game — and here in Spokane, it's the Velocity's game…

Josh King’s Royal Blue Woodworking is named for his first dog, Bud, a blue Great Dane. For six years King studied at Colorado’s Red Rocks Fine Woodworking College, where, as he puts it, he got to learn from “eight different Michael Jordans.” King has now been a full-time fine woodworker for 12 years, though Bud has sadly passed on…

It's obvious now, but when MTV first launched 40 years ago this summer, the idea was relatively novel that a musical artist would feel compelled to make mini-movie versions of their songs…

In the early morning of June 10, 2015, Dennis Platz woke up to go open the gate to his Colbert property and let in his neighbor, Dan Carver, who planned to borrow a field sprayer…

Don van Lierop had a problem…

Allan didn't know it was fentanyl…

On the face of it, the legacy of Jerry Quinn Sr. is simple…

By Lee van der Voo, High Country News…

It's October 22, 2001, and I'm standing on a crowded Key Arena concourse…

Fifty years ago, in 1972, Spokane was on the threshold of creating one of the most remarkable world's fairs anywhere…

At its peak, the World's Fair was a chance for cities to wow visitors with massive, awe-inspiring structures that promised a unique vision of the future…

My first 18 years saw a lot of pets — a cat, a dog, two rabbits, some fish, a frog and a snake…

Spokane owes its existence to bridges…

Wylie Hunter refuses to give up…

The story of Expo '74 is packed with dramatic chapters, narrative rabbit holes, heroes like the guy who went by "King," odd icons like the Garbage Goat and gifts that keep on giving like the U.S. Pavilion and Spokane Opera House…

In Spokane County, a single person died of a fentanyl-related overdose in 2018, according to official records…

There's starting off on the right foot, and then there's whatever happened Monday night inside Spokane Arena. The Gonzaga men's basketball team loudly announced itself as a national title contender late on college basketball's opening night with a dominating 101-63 win against Baylor…

There's no doubt it's fun to get together with friends and family and catch up on one another's lives during the holidays…

Slàinte mhath (pronounced slawn-ja-va) is Scottish Gaelic for "good health."…

Ask Spokane family physician David Ward about choosing vitamin supplements, and he first offers his best advice: You may not need any…

We're always searching out interesting and noteworthy projects at H&H, and we're happy to report that two buildings we've featured have recently been honored with awards…

Autumn and winter are filled with holidays that can leave many of us feeling pressured to make each more special and memorable than the last…

Maybe you shouldn't be surprised that Spokane's most notable distillery has an origin not unlike its host city…

Brunch…