Category Archives: In The News

A new soccer venue is ready for competition just as the FIFA World Cup arrives in Washington. Instead of global superstars, however, the recently redone pitch will soon be run across by panting elementary and middle school athletes. Spokane County ...

Look hard enough and signs of the pending arrival of the Egyptian National team ahead of the 2026 World Cup already can be seen around town. Crews scraped the grass playing surface from Luger Field on the Gonzaga University campus ...

Spokane is hosting Egypt as a Team Base Camp for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to Washington Senator Marcus Riccelli (D-Spokane) and the Spokane City Council. Headlining the Egyptian national team is superstar attacker Mohamed Salah. The forward plays ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Spokane County leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of a new behavioral crisis and substance use recovery center on Thursday morning. The county says the Prevention, Assessment, Treatment, and Healing (PATH) Crisis Relief and Sobering Center is a $21 million ...

SPOKANE, Wash. A newly signed bill is bringing property tax relief to approximately 50,000 individuals across Washington State. Governor Ferguson signed SB 6162 Monday afternoon, to go into effect for the 2027 tax year. The law raises income exemptions for property taxes, allowing ...

Spokane is home to two medical schools. The University of Washington trains students here for their first year-and-a-half, in conjunction with Gonzaga University. Washington State University’s medical school is based in Spokane and it trains students in Spokane, Richland, Everett ...

OLYMPIA – Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation Wednesday that restricts counties from sharing information about Washington voters, including names, dates of birth, addresses and either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number upon ...

MultiCare has plans to double the number of primary care student doctors in Spokane within the next four years. Next door to Deaconess hospital, the new Internal Medicine Residency Clinic will provide adult primary care while training a new generation ...

Senator Marcus Riccelli, who represents Eastern Washington, says he and his team have achieved several wins this legislative session. He sat down with KREM 2 to discuss several wins for Spokane during the 2026 legislative session. Watch here.

OLYMPIA – A Spokane nonprofit that helps infants born in substance withdrawal is celebrating after the Legislature last week approved $2 million in funding for the facility. The money will help fund Maddie’s Place, which opened in October 2022, through ...