Transcranial magnetic stimulation sounds like — and looks like — something you'd find in a science fiction movie, but it's a real treatment option…

In the spring of 2020, Andrea Walker Warren and her husband, Matt Warren, found themselves in Munich, contemplating moving back to the United States…

There are what you might call "traditional" paths in academia that advance in a very linear way…

Plus, the city shines a light on high crime areas; and Idaho issues another death warrant to a man whose execution failed Researchers with Eastern Washington University's Racial Covenants Project have released a detailed map of Spokane area properties that have racially restrictive covenants on their deed or title…

The weaponizing of words is poisoning our body politic…

Panhandle Door Inc. started 25 years ago as a small mom-and-pop cabinet business in Naples, Idaho, about 6 miles south of Bonners Ferry in Boundary County…

Vice President Kamala Harris announced last week her intention, if elected president, to "legalize marijuana at the federal level."…

In August, more than 30,000 Democrats who support making it easier to build housing gathered online for a "YIMBYs For Harris" Zoom fundraising call…

On Oct. 30, after our story was sent to the presses but before it was distributed, Mayor Lisa Brown announced that her team will add $800,000 of one-time funds to pay for inclement weather beds this winter — that is, extra beds for when the temperature drops below freezing. These dollars, plus the already allotted $250,000, mean the city is now able to pay for 133 beds for 143 nights, which is about the average number of nights that Spokane has lows at or below 32 degrees…

Spokane Valley has finished its nearly $4.6 million Sprague Avenue stormwater and multimodal project, which reduced the road from five to three lanes between North University Road and North Herald Road, where Balfour Park and Spokane Valley City Hall are located…

On Tuesday, we will learn what kind of state we want to live in, and about who we are…

Plus, Spokane could expand its bike network; and Mayor Brown finishes Cabinet hires Starting in fall 2025, some students who currently attend the Community Colleges of Spokane — Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College — will be guaranteed the chance to start studying at Whitworth University…

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board recently released sales and tax data from fiscal 2024 — July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024…

Bonnie McCoy has been living at the Trent Resource and Assistance Center, or TRAC, for two years…

Presidential elections often get the highest voter turnout, which is already proving true in Spokane County. With five days left to vote, nearly 48% of the county's roughly 375,000 registered voters have already returned their ballots, according to unofficial statistics provided by the Spokane County Elections Office…

While many were focused on the race for the White House, Inland Northwest contests were also largely decided on Tuesday night. With at least 31,000 ballots remaining to be counted, Spokane County voter turnout hovered around 56% of registered voters as of Tuesday, which is significantly lower than expected in a presidential election…

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…

Plus, Spokane wants historic teardowns to go to good use and Idaho wants phones banned in all schools ENOUGH PROGRESS?…

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

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

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

When it's too hot — or cold — to enjoy the great outdoors, family fun centers are a great option to keep the whole family entertained while getting some physical movement in…

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

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…

This is hardly the first time the Catholic Church has to deal with a plague. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly knows that well…

We at the Inlander remain committed to keeping people informed and connected during the coronavirus outbreak, supporting our readers and local businesses in the ways we always have. We have experienced some disruption in where we distribute papers, but we're stocking and restocking thousands of copies at local Rosauers, Super 1, URM Cash & Carry, Yoke's, Albertson's and Safeway stores, plus Papa Murphy's locations, My Fresh Basket and more…

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.”…

Our staff of reporters and photographers at the Inlander has been working tirelessly to cover the coronavirus pandemic and all of its implications for the Inland Northwest — on jobs, schools, employment, the restaurant industry, arts organizations, hospitals and much, much more. However, we’ve also tapped into a boundless resource that is our region’s community of writers, and in recent days they’ve shared with Inlander readers an awe-inspiring series of essays and stories that has left us inspired, hopeful, heartbroken and more than a little grateful…

You don't have to wander around the internet long before bumping into a rave review of Fiona Apple's new record Fetch the Bolt Cutters: It has inspired breathless acclaim, has already been labeled a masterwork and is notably the first new album in nearly a decade that Pitchfork has assigned a perfect 10/10 rating…

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

It all comes down to a thrilling vehicular showdown with a ruthless villain at an arctic base. With a clock ticking and the threat of a weapon of mass destruction looming, our hero races an absurdly modified classic car on a frozen lake, contending with assault rifle-wielding snowmobilers and enemy vehicles firing rockets…

Super Sparkle is returning to say au revoir…

Descending into the mildly claustrophobic Spokane Valley basement of Creative Music Learning Center isn't an experience that screams pop music…

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

While there's always an impressive power hearing a full symphony fill a room with sound, there's a stirring subtlety that can only be achieved via classic music on a smaller scale.  That's a sonic itch that the Spokane String Quartet is always happy to scratch. Before the Spokane String Quartet takes the stage at The Fox this Sunday for a program featuring special guest pianist Archie Chen, we caught up with violinist Amanda Howard-Phillips—who has played with the quartet since 2011 and  is also second violin in the Spokane Symphony — to chat about the communal expression of string quartet music, SSQ's upcoming shows, and the unique place the group occupies in Spokane…

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…

Washington State Univerity's Indie Folk is a unique art exhibition for many reasons, not the least of which is its original soundtrack of nine songs gallery-goers will be able to listen to…

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…

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

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 folk duo with Spokane connections wrestles with grief on its new album, 'Debris.' Loss is never easy. Loss during a pandemic is even tougher…

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

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."…

FUNDS FOR ARTISTS…

"Take me out to the ball game!" are words I shout every trip to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles…

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is unlike anything else…

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

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

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…