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Vandals caused the Sunday service at Lake City Assembly of God in Medical Lake to be put on hold, after doing extensive damage throughout the church and its property. The break-in, which took place...

The new Spokane Caterpillar Distribution Center opened last Thursday, Jan. 10, to a well-attended group of local business leaders and elected officials. Inside, the facility has 562,000 square feet...

New Cheney School board director Henry Browne, Jr. takes nothing for granted when it comes to having the opportunity to receive a good education, and he didn’t have to walk 20 miles through 10-foot...

Cheney Planning Commission members got a light start to the new year at their January meeting Monday night. Other than a workshop on how the proposed zoning changes to the city’s single-family residential codes would work, the commission received a...

Spokane County Sheriff officers are continuing to work on a shooting near Airway Heights on the 4000 block of North Garfield Road Sunday, Jan. 13 at 4:30 a.m. Once arriving on scene, officers located a deceased adult male in the residence, now...

Following its approval of the Joint Land Use Study, the Airway Heights Planning Commission was back to its regularly scheduled agenda for its Monday, Jan. 14 meeting. This year will largely consist of updating the city’s comprehensive plan, which...

Overall crime went down in 2012 for Medical Lake, according to Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich at the Tuesday, Jan. 15 Medical Lake City Council meeting. The city saw 604 total responses last year, down from 633 in 2011. Knezovich did have a...

Officers in Airway Heights are still looking for a suspect involved in a Monday, Jan. 7, Jack in the Box robbery on the 10306 block of Highway 2. The male suspect entered the Jack in the Box at approximately 10:40 p.m., dressed in a blue hooded...

Purchasing affordable clothes and helping victims of domestic violence go hand in hand at one new Airway Heights store. After searching across numerous locations in Spokane for their thrift store...

Patty Hunt began to see the beauty of the world as a child near Bonney Lake in Western Washington. Patty is gifted with a great deal of musical ability. One day as a young girl in school she was singi...

BA few weeks ago I lost the use of my toilet and learned firsthand just how much I missed it when it wasn’t there. My plumbing went out of order when the pipe between my house and the city’s sewer line in the street collapsed. Pipes like that bel...

StageWest Community Theatre of the West Plains is changing its performance schedule. The performance intended for this month, “Way Out West In A Dress or Life is a Hurdle when Your Wearing A Girdle,” is being changed because of the inability to...

Cheney School Board directors voted to table a proposal on elementary school boundary revisions presented at their Jan. 9 board meeting. Board members said they felt they and the public needed time to review and possibly offer different options on th...

Eastern Washington University has been selected to host the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), a prestigious academic event that will bring up to 3,000 students and faculty to the Cheney-Spokane area for the three-day conference,...

FHallett Elementary announced its award winners for the months of November and December 2012. This month, students are focusing on the following character traits: Having a positive attitude, Always doing their best, Working together and Knowing the...

The following area undergraduate students have qualified for the Dean’s Honor List at Eastern Washington University for fall quarter 2012. To be listed, a student must carry at least 12 credits and achieve a grade point average of 3.5 (4.0 scale)...

Eastern Washington University’s Computer Science Alumni Endowment has reached the $25,000 mark, thanks to a 20-month fundraising effort that reflects the growing interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs. Starting in...

The following Cheney High School seniors received placement on the 2012-13 first trimester honor roll. In order to qualify for placement, students must earn a grade point average of 3.50 or above. Joshua B. Baker, Marlon A. Barlow, Calvin A....

There are certain things we come to expect in life, and one of those is when the snow flies, the plows roll. Recent sizeable snowfalls have demonstrated the value of having capable and dedicated street crews ready to get out no matter how...

bNew Year’s resolutions are a lot like the lotto: you have to play if you want to win. We all know people who make them, both the serious ones and the funny. It’s either about losing weight, becoming more organized, better money management or...

The mainstream media will deny tactics by the Obama administration that includes arrest and execution of our citizens without due process of law. The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law on Jan. 2, 2013 by President Obama, allows...

You know that old saying that there are no dumb questions? It’s not true. I know. As a journalist, I’ve asked my share of stupid questions. Yet even in the context of my own shortcomings, I do not understand what the White House press corps is...

When Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned on national television over the weekend that Chuck Hagel “would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of Israel in our nation’s history,” either his memory se...

Ending weeks of speculation in the rumor mill, Eastern Washington junior wide receiver Brandon Kaufman announced he was leaving school and entering April’s NFL draft that begins April 25. EWU head...