August 17, 2024, 5:57am Life
Summer has reached Whatcom County, and we’re exploring local cities, islands and other destinations within a day’s travel from Bellingham. Now, we’re taking you to Friday Harbor, a beautiful seaside town that can be reached only through an island-lined ferry route. Read story
August 17, 2024, 5:55am Business
The USDA is predicting an average to above-average harvest in Washington this year — around 146 million bushels as of July — which is welcome news to those wheat growers who’ve had to contend with drought, extreme heat and subsequent low yields in recent years. But just like their crop,… Read story
August 17, 2024, 5:48am Business
In the We the People series, The Spokesman-Review examines a question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Read story
August 17, 2024, 5:44am Life
Now living at the Minnesota Zoo, Marcie the pronghorn antelope’s story began with a human Marcie across the country at Washington State University. Read story
August 17, 2024, 5:36am Business
A gold and silver depository that its owner says can store more than Fort Knox just opened in downtown Eagle. Read story
August 16, 2024, 9:05pm Northwest
The Idaho Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed over an upcoming ballot initiative on Idaho’s closed primary system, concluding that it was too early to rule on the measure’s constitutionality. Read story
August 16, 2024, 8:15pm Northwest
So you drove into an intersection but realized that you need to be in a different lane soon. Are you allowed to change lanes in the middle of the intersection? Or do you have to wait until you clear the intersection in order to change lanes? Here’s what Washington law… Read story
August 16, 2024, 7:39pm Northwest Free
Washington’s Department of Corrections pledged to end solitary confinement as a punishment in 2021 — but isolation is still widely used across state prisons for what the agency calls “administrative” purposes. Read story
August 16, 2024, 6:38pm Northwest Free
The state Department of Health is considering an update to how it exempts small farms from some drinking water requirements. Read story
August 16, 2024, 6:36pm Northwest Free
Persistent drought in the West over the last two decades has limited the amount of electricity that hydropower dams can generate, costing the industry and the region billions of dollars in revenue. Read story
