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The recent additions of non-stop flights to major U.S. cities from Spokane – Delta’s straight shot to Los Angeles and being able to connect to Chicago’s Midway Airport via Southwest...

It may have been a different spring than we’ve been used to experiencing the past few years, but expect another typical summer in the Inland Northwest. That’s the conclusion from Eastern Washington University geography and meteorology professor D...

Despite virtually an entire new look on paper, Medical Lake’s AA American Legion baseball team looks much the same on the field so far. Successful. The team that made it to the quarterfinals of the...

Normally a serious knee injury can mean the beginning of the end of an athlete’s sports career. Certainly not the slippery slope it appears Medical Lake’s Kasey Kelly has avoided. For a guy who...

Cheney SummerHawks’ pitcher Kyle Kreiger delivers a pitch this past Monday in a 4-0 AA American Legion win at Central Valley....

Construction crews recently began the project to expand the P-12 parking lot behind Roos Field. The expansion will provide both additional student parking and more game-day parking...

McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas promotes the primary local industry – gambling – right in the faces of arriving passengers who must pass banks of slot machines on the way to fetch...

The Spokane Blue Devils AAA American Legion baseball team hopes to rebound from their struggles in 2012 and if coach Tony Byrne has his way a group of Cheney players will play big parts. Coming off a...

Just a few strokes, it seems, separated the Medical Lake boys’ doubles tennis team from another trophy at state. At least that’s how head coach Justin Blayne saw it in their pivotal opening-round...

A last minute change of direction paid dividends for a Cheney elementary school student in last week’s Books2Eat, annual edible book festival sponsored by the JFK Library and a group of volunteer fr...

Those who live in the Northwest, especially the inland portion, will often tell you how they feel fortunate not to have to deal with many of the phenomenon’s Mother Nature deals out in the form of hurricanes, ice storms and of course tornadoes....

The state 1A track championships staged last weekend at Eastern Washington University might not have produced a first place finish for Medical Lake but one of their coach’s came away with a smile....

As a sports nut, when a sports movie hits the big screen I’ve got to take it in. Back in 1977 when Paul Newman actually laced up the skates and did his own stunts playing minor league hockey has been Reggie Dunlop in “Slap Shot” it was a can’...

One theme that was a uniting thread for the winners of the 2013 Eastern Washington University Alumni Awards handed out last Saturday was the help the recipients received from others. In the event...

The smiling face with the gray handlebar moustache who greets some by name and friendly kidding to others who visit the Eastern Washington University surplus sales locks the doors one final time...

Medical Lake’s track team continues to surprise many people. But not their co-head coach Gene Blankenship. The Cardinals emerged from last Saturday’s regionals at Riverside High School with a...

Medical Lake had a pair of memorable innings during last Saturday’s state quarterfinal baseball playoff at Eastmont High School in East Wenatchee. They just needed more of them after falling out of the postseason play following a 17-7 loss to...

Medical Lake has passed its biggest test of the season so far on the baseball diamond. Now the exams continue, and probably get tougher. Following a 6-0 win Saturday morning over Brewster, plus surviv...

Medical Lake’s baseball team has conducted its massive turnaround in the traditional ways. In crafting a 19-3 overall record that has earned the Cardinals one of 16 berths in the state 1A tournament that will trim things down to a single winner...

Medical Lake will send a third and fourth place singles entry, plus a doubles team that earned fourth place in last weekend’s district championships to regional competition Friday and Saturday at...

The softball season, and the latest stint for head coach John Higgins ended for Medical Lake last Saturday in Suncrest. After a thrilling 14-13 win in 12 innings over Chewelah last Tuesday that got them into the postseason, a pair of losses in the...

A 45-day deadline to clean up their property at Fish Lake passed May 1 for Michael and Dennis Myers. So now what? “They’ve pled guilty to a couple of misdemeanor charges for failing to clean up th...

The emotions of a between-games Senior Day recognition ceremony may have gotten to Adam Paulson, but few Riverside batters did last Friday. Paulson, a four-year letter winner at Medical Lake in...

The Medical Lake girls’ golf team is in a place they have not been before, or at least for some time. The Cardinals sit on top of the Northeast A League standings as regular season champions at a perfect 5-0 with four golfers in the league’s...

The Medical Lake girls’ tennis team will carry a 7-1 Northeast A League record and a shared championship with Chewelah into district competition beginning Friday and continuing Saturday at Mead High School. The Cardinals finished the regular...