The Spokesman-Review

27/07/2025

It’s unclear if Bryan Kohberger stalked any or all of the four University of Idaho students he murdered in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.

Investigators followed every lead in the aftermath and wrote chilling reports after every interview with people who may have been able to shed light on the frightening case that paralyzed and then united a city late that year.

Now that Kohberger has been sentenced to a life of imprisonment, Moscow police have released hundreds of investigative documents outlining the work undertaken to capture the killer of X**a Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin.

It’s unclear if Bryan Kohberger stalked any or all of the four University of Idaho students he murdered in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.

27/07/2025

Despite varying experiences, ambitions and inspirations, interns at The Spokesman-Review share one thing: They are thrown right into the job on Day 1.

“We treat our interns different from most organizations,” Editor Rob Curley said.

Indeed, visitors to the newsroom won’t see interns making coffee runs, writing filler content or otherwise taking care of the office’s “grunt work.” What they might see is an intern’s byline on the day’s front page.

This summer’s six interns include a crowd of new and returning faces, each of whom has learned to jump on story assignments and hit daily deadlines.

Despite varying experiences, ambitions and inspirations, interns at The Spokesman-Review share one thing: They are thrown right into the job on Day 1.

27/07/2025

Something extraordinary is happening on the mountain bike trails and gravel roads across Spokane County, and on a vegetable farm in Medical Lake.

Last week the Sproule family sent their three teenagers to the 2025 USA Cycling Endurance Mountain Bike National Championships to compete with the fastest kids in the country in a sport that combines the fitness to grind up steep hills and the handling skills to zip down serpentine trails littered with rocks and roots – all at a race pace that brings the body to its maximum heart rate and pain tolerance.

Something extraordinary is happening on the mountain bike trails and gravel roads across Spokane County, and on a vegetable farm in Medical Lake.

27/07/2025

A wheat grower from Spokane County visited the Capitol this week to drum up support for glyphosate, a widely used w**d killer that was targeted in a May report commissioned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Gil Crosby, who farms near Fairfield and serves as vice president of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers, spent Wednesday and Thursday in D.C. meeting with congressional staff to warn against restricting the use of glyphosate. The MAHA Report – taking its name from Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative – identified the herbicide, which wheat growers rely on to control w**ds, as potentially harmful to children.

WASHINGTON – A wheat grower from Spokane County visited the Capitol this week to drum up support for glyphosate, a widely used w**d killer that was targeted in a May report commissioned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

27/07/2025

Passionate baseball fan Dave Shuffler is out to shine spotlight on forgotten segregation-era Black baseball players.

“The history of Negro and pre-Negro Leagues baseball is the history of Black America and by proxy, the history of America,” Shuffler said. “Black baseball was a bedrock of the Black community, Black culture and Black commerce.”

David Shuffler is not a baseball historian. He never worked in the game. He didn’t play, manage or coach; nor has he ever been credentialed as media.

27/07/2025

As fall camp for Washington State football inches closer, how will new head coach Jimmy Rogers incorporate tight ends into the offense?

“There’s a lot to our tight end group,” Rogers said in April, “just the amount of motions and shifts and nuances with the blocking schemes that they have to know, and then also being an adequate pass-catcher.”

PULLMAN – Here is the fourth installment of our countdown to Washington State fall camp, which starts on Wednesday. This issue covers the Cougars’ tight ends.

26/07/2025

Rogers High School grad Levi Horn spent time in the NFL with the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings before bouncing around other professional leagues like the CFL.

Using his experience and Native American heritage, Horn is giving back to indigenous youth through the nonprofit organization Rise Above.

“I have the gift and honor of being with these young kids every day. I had so many people who helped me, so many people who gave to me without asking anything from me.”

A Monday morning at Rogers High in late July: A small collection of young people races up and down the school stairways, and then chugs off to another room where the members clank iron and strain against devices designed to build them into athletes.

26/07/2025

Bill Smithpeters, who coached Eastern Washington women's basketball to its first NCAA Tournament berth, dies at 94.

Smithpeters coached at Eastern Washington from 1977 to 1994 and was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2010. His teams finished with a record of 290-227 and won at least 20 games in six seasons.

“The human being Bill was far exceeds the coach that he was,” Mike Divilbiss said by phone last week. “And he was a hell of a coach.”

Mike Divilbiss had never coached college basketball when he replied to an ad Bill Smithpeters posted in The Spokesman-Review in 1984.

26/07/2025

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles," July 1961 version.

25/07/2025

Low-income riders will soon get half-priced fare to ride the bus in Spokane after a vote Thursday by the Spokane Transit Authority to approve a two-year pilot program.

25/07/2025

Here is the second installment of our countdown to Washington State’s fall camp, which starts on Wednesday. This issue covers the Cougars’ offensive line.

PULLMAN – Here is the second installment of our countdown to Washington State’s fall camp, which starts on Wednesday. This issue covers the Cougars’ offensive line.

25/07/2025

The orange and black napkins in the water glasses at Darcy’s Restaurant in Spokane Valley marked the table of a special group of regulars.

Every other month, members of the West Valley High School Class of 1955 meet for lunch.

“We started with four people meeting for lunch in 2016,” Carol Mueller said. “Three gals and one guy. All of us had lost a son. “

The group grew as more classmates joined them.

These folks are some of the last graduates from the original 1924 school located at Trent and Argonne. A new school was built in 1957.

The orange and black napkins in the water glasses at Darcy’s Restaurant in Spokane Valley marked the table of a special group of regulars.