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Spokane (/ s p oʊ ˈ k æ n / ⓘ spoh-KAN) [8] is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canadian border, 18.5 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 ...
(The Center Square) – Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown celebrated her administration’s first year in office on Thursday, touting a list of accomplishments after a trying 12 months. Brown previously ...
The Spokesman-Review was formed from the merger of the Spokane Falls Review (1883–1894) and the Spokesman (1890–1893) in 1893 and first published under the present name on June 29, 1894. [3] [4] The Spokane Falls Review was a joint venture between local businessman, A.M. Cannon and Henry Pittock and Harvey W. Scott of The Oregonian.
[41] [42] The current elected Sheriff of Spokane County is John Nowels, whose term began on January 1, 2023. [43] Transportation planning within the county is handled by the Spokane Regional Transportation Council, a metropolitan planning organization that was created in 1962. It distributes federal and state funds for transportation projects ...
Oct. 10—Police will concentrate their resources over the next month on Spokane's downtown to tamp down crime in the city's core. The effort is a pilot program for what Mayor Lisa Brown and newly ...
The Spokane Falls were the tribe's center of trade and fishing. The Spokane consisted of three bands that lived along the Spokane River. [4] The Spokane people shared their culture and Salishan language family with several other tribes, including the Coeur d' Alenes, Kalispels, Pend Oreilles, Flatheads, Kootenays, and Colvilles among others. [4]
Dec. 27—A woman who fell with her two young children from a third-floor apartment on Christmas has died of her injuries, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office ...
The WSU Spokane Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in the University District was created five years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2015 to help alleviate a physician shortage in rural and eastern Washington using a community-based approach. [125]