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After more than a decade of litigation, the EPA has released a plan to reduce carcinogenic chemicals in the Spokane River

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…




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The downtown Spokane doom narrative is self-reinforcing; sharing a different story about our vibrant downtown could be, too

The narrative goes something like this: Downtown Spokane is in decline, is unsafe, is a hotbed of crime and unsavory activity…



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Spokane rental units are required to be registered, but not everyone knows that; now they might have to pay the fee

Whether you agree with it or not, Spokane's rental registry is law…




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Kindred & Co. brings friendship, books and food to North Idaho

Author Alice Hoffman said it best: "Books may well be the only true magic."…



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Across the Inland Northwest, national and local talent comes together to deliver top-tier entertainment throughout the year

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…



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Doom's new and improved storyline, Pearl Jams new album and more you need to know

PROPHET OF DOOM…



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The Inlander teamed up with a Rogers art teacher to paint a tribute to 2020 grads in Riverfront Park

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



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Fourteenth-century knights succumb to toxic masculinity in The Last Duel

Ridley Scott's The Last Duel opens with two hardened 14th-century French warriors preparing for ritual combat, but don't be fooled: This isn't a historical epic about brave men headed off to war…



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The directors of Free Solo return with a mesmerizing documentary about a daring deepwater dive

If you think you know the full story of how a soccer team became trapped in a Thai cave, a spectacle that drew the breathless attention of the world, you don't…



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Inlander Insights: Super Sparkle gets ready to say goodbye

Super Sparkle is returning to say au revoir…



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Baroness brings its expansive metal to Lucky You Lounge

Guitarist Gina Gleason chats about new music and fandom before playing Spokane Baroness occupies a very unique spot in the metal world…



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Infinite Storm makes tedious drama out of an inspirational true story

Things are never going to turn out well for someone who decides to go mountain climbing in a movie called Infinite Storm…



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The Lost City is a lighthearted romp, and one that largely works thanks to its likable leads

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…



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Don't stay glued to your porch this summer, visit the honey bucket with the Melvins

Helmed by Buzz Osborne, the Melvins have helped codify the heavy music lexicon since 1983…



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British period dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris tries a bit too hard to win over its audience

There's a fine line between sweet and cloying, and the British dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris crosses it a little too often…



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LA-based BODYTRAFFIC brings its signature contemporary dance style to the Inland Northwest

When Tina Berkett moved from New York City to Los Angeles in 2007, she immediately noticed the West Coast's creative spirit…



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The new Hamilton Studio Listening Room provides audiences with a unique and intimate acoustic experience

A sign that read "St. Joseph's Catholic School Gymnasium" used to hang above the front door of a brick building in Spokane's West Central neighborhood, but it's since been replaced by a simple metal sign bearing the surname "Hamilton."…



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The Glover Mansion hosts Kindling Dance's haunted-house performance inspired by its storied history

More than 100 years ago the opulent Glover Mansion was built for its first inhabitants, James and Susan Glover…



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Sherman, Wash: Tucked amid rolling fields is the well-kept remnant of a town that began to decline shortly after its founding in the 1880s

It's a sunny Monday as I drive out to Sherman, one of Lincoln County's few ghost towns…



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There are dozens more ghost towns across the Pacific Northwest, including these four nearby spots

Fishtrap, Washington…



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Cloverland, Wash: The only original building left in this briefly booming orchard town in Asotin County is its well-preserved garage

Though a sign on Washington State Route 129 points you in the right direction, driving the nearly 12 miles along Cloverland Road to arrive at the Cloverland Garage in Asotin County can make you feel like you're, well, chasing ghosts…



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Elberton, Wash: This picturesque Palouse town thrived from agriculture and timber, but died out as nearby resources did

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…



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Burke, Idaho: Wedged between mountains, the Silver Valley mine town's history of rich resources still echoes down the canyon

Crammed in a narrow canyon of North Idaho's Silver Valley, in perhaps one of the most inconvenient but also beautiful places for a hub of human habitation, are the rusted remains of a once-lively mountain mine town…



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The Gonzaga men have reloaded for the 2024-25 season, while the women have some departures to deal with

GONZAGA MEN…




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Gen Heywood's photography exhibition at Gonzaga University Urban Art Center explores the potency of two American icons

It's a scary time of year, but not because of Halloween…



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Discover five Inland Northwest ghost towns where the past still eerily echoes

As early settlers flocked to the American West to extract the land's rich resources, small towns spread across the landscape…



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Q&A: Former Gonzaga head coach Dan Monson returns to the PNW sidelines to lead Eastern Washington University

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




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Journalist Nate Schweber shares a historic story of public lands conservation for the Palouse's Everybody Reads program

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



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Art and signage commemorating the history and contributions of Spokane's early Japanese residents installed at Saranac Building

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



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The Zags are set for another season competing at the very top of college basketball

Forget rebuilding and reloading…




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Three takeaways from Gonzaga’s dominant start to the season

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…




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In a challenging year for the movie business, these 10 films were the best to hit screens large and small

What even is a 2021 movie?…



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A Washington-wide nonprofit helps old places survive — and thrive

Since 1976, the nonprofit Washington Trust for Historic Preservation has been advocating to save old places from oblivion…



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Historic preservationists in rural communities across Eastern Washington race against time to save old buildings

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



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Inland Northwest tribes are using technology to track young salmon in hopes of returning runs to the Columbia and Spokane rivers

It starts raining just as two trucks hauling juvenile salmon arrive near the end of a gravel road at Chief Joseph Dam in the Central Washington town of Bridgeport on Friday, May 6…



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Spokane artist Chris Bovey opens Vintage Print + Neon storefront, studio and workshop in the Garland District

Chris Bovey's new shop on Garland Avenue isn't technically open on Tuesday, but it's too enjoyably warm and sunny on a late September afternoon to keep the roll-up door along the sidewalk closed…



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An artist's touch revives a historic Spokane home

Everyone has a list of priorities when searching for a new home: a desirable city near work or family; two or more bedrooms; a chef's kitchen; a fenced yard for the dog…



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Royal Blue Fine Woodworking: Going with the grain to create lasting beauty and functionality

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…




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We went behind the scenes at Scarywood to understand what it takes to bring the theme park alive with fright

Fear is an instinctive, innate biological response that's kept humans safe for many millennia…



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It was no accident that a restaurant called Central Food was the first business to open in Spokane's now-bustling Kendall Yards neighborhood

When I began thinking about the relationship between neighborhoods and food in Spokane, we were still in COVID lockdown and I hadn't been out to eat in over a year…



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Why Washington is knowingly violating its own laws in the treatment of mentally ill suspects

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…



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Jimmy Lake brings his Eastern Washington bona fides to the land of the Purple and Gold

Don van Lierop had a problem…




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As Afghanistan falls to the Taliban, Spokanites try, mostly in vain, to rescue their Afghan friends and family

It's a Sunday in late August, eight days before the last American soldier will leave Afghanistan…



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Fentanyl is flooding into the Inland Northwest, triggering a deadlier phase of the opioid crisis

Allan didn't know it was fentanyl…



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After nearly 50 years, Jerry Quinn Sr.'s work to preserve the Northwest's railroad legacy keeps rolling

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



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Eastern Washington ranching mogul Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.

By Lee van der Voo, High Country News…



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How Spokane — and America — cranked its simmering housing mess into a raging boil

How does a cute little town like Spokane — once famous for its low cost of living — have a spike in housing prices and rental costs sharp enough to make it the star of a New York Times story about our ridiculous spike in rents and housing costs?…



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The story of Expo '74 is the story of rediscovering what can unite us and give meaning to this place we call home

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



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Are Washington state's anti-sprawl rules suffocating Spokane's ability to build housing?

Of all the proposed solutions to Spokane County's emergency shortage of houses, one is glaringly obvious: build more houses…



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School board elections across the nation are being stormed by conservatives demanding more 'parental rights' — including Spokane Valley's Central Valley School District

It's been more than three years since COVID began to shake up the world with lockdowns, social distancing and other measures that seem like relics of the past…



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