TED MCDERMOTT

A Spokane man is suing the city and the driver of a car who struck him on Division Street. He alleges that the city was negligent in installing this mid-block crossing at Rhoades Avenue and Division without adding the proper precautions.

June 28, 2021 at 11:02 am

Spokane accused of negligence in suit over pedestrian injury at troubled crossing

Benjamin Gedeon was in a midblock crosswalk on a busy major street when he was hit by a car, thrown some 50 feet and severely...

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June 17, 2021 at 8:01 am

Idaho doubles out-of-state fee for some camp sites: $48 a night at Priest Lake

Bad news for Washington residents planning camping trips to Priest Lake: Idaho is doubling its campsite reservation fees for out-of-state visitors.

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Devon Peone helps launch one of two traditional cedar canoes as they prepare to leave the two rivers area at the confluence of the Spokane and Columbia Rivers Tuesday, June 15, 2021 on a trip by Native youth to learn about their tribes’ history in the area while on a four-hour paddle up the Columbia. They met at nearby Fort Spokane, a military post founded in 1880, but it was also a school to educate Native kids, a process which was not always voluntary.

June 16, 2021 at 8:02 am

‘It’s time to bring them back’: Washington tribes’ canoe journey calls attention to loss of salmon, legacy of residential schools

Gathering for their annual canoe journey, 40 Spokane and Colville tribal members reckoned with the destructive impact of the Northwest's residential schools.

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February 19, 2021 at 6:00 pm

On the Colville reservation, the vaccination rate is nearly double the state’s, despite challenges

While health districts across the state have struggled to get and distribute vaccine doses, tribal governments in Eastern Washington have had relative success, despite historical,...

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SPOKANE TRIBE OF INDIANS, LEGACY OF URANIUM MINING
032307 and 032407 Interviews with families, former workers and uranium site.

Tribal activist Deb Abrahamson, walking through what little is left of Uranium City, a housing complex, pushes for cleanup. Her dad brought home the small, hard balls used to crush the ore at the mill and they became playthings for the kids. She’s with S.H.A.W.L.

January 4, 2021 at 10:40 am

Spokane accused of negligence in suit over pedestrian injury at troubled crossing

Idaho doubles out-of-state fee for some camp sites: $48 a night at Priest Lake

‘It’s time to bring them back’: Washington tribes’ canoe journey calls attention to loss of salmon, legacy of residential schools

On the Colville reservation, the vaccination rate is nearly double the state’s, despite challenges

Deb Abrahamson, powerful advocate for environmental justice on Spokane reservation, dies at 65

New passenger rail from Spokane faces significant obstacles, study finds

Montana rules unclear in ‘chemical restraint’ of children