Kip Hill

Developer Larry Stone’s newest “film to help Spokane,” released earlier this week, opens to melancholic piano music and a junkyard filled with broken cars, followed by two sedans pressed by a hydraulic crusher .

George Alex, whose mother, Mary Gianetsas, famously refused an offer from Sister Peter Claver to sell her home to the hospital in the late 1960s, confirmed on Tuesday interest from Diamond Parking in acquiring the land.

James T. Henrikson, 44, is serving two life sentences at a high-security federal prison in California after his 2016 conviction on 11 charges tied to the deaths of Doug Carlile and Kristopher "K.C." Clarke. In April, Henrikson filed his own petition asking that his sentencing be revisited because four of the charges were solicitation to commit murder for hire, and that another federal murder-for-hire case decided in December determined that in order to be guilty of that crime the target had to be killed.

The Broadway Diner, through its many iterations, has been serving up hot food and coffee, 24 hours a day, since the early days of Interstate 90 bisecting Spokane and creating a throughway for freight and hungry drivers. Don Alsaker, along with partner Charles Williams, bought the truck stop in 1963 and opened the restaurant that year.

A 24-year-old Spokane man was booked into Kootenai County Jail on impaired driving charges after a two-car crash late Friday that shut down Interstate 90 near Cataldo for several hours.

A new fire burning in the Latah Valley on Sunday has prompted get-ready-to-leave orders from the Spokane Fire Department.

Aug. 20—Firefighters from multiple agencies quickly stopped a wildland blaze in the Latah Valley on Sunday that was determined to be caused by people. City and county fire crews were able to dig a dozer line around a 15-acre fire early Sunday afternoon that was reported just before 8:30 a.m. in the 2700 block of Thorpe Road, said Justin de Ruyter, a spokesman for the Spokane Fire Department. ...

Nov. 2—For James Nichols, the beauty of the diner is in seeing the immediate response a cook gets from his customers, whether it be the seasoning on a heaping pile of hash browns or the cayenne pepper in a clam chowder.

The 85,000 people who traveled to downtown Spokane to kick off a world’s fair on May 4, 1974, saw the fruits of business leaders, artists, politicians and more come to life in a reimagined trainyard.

By Kip Hill For The Spokesman-Review When future Expo '74 President King Cole's family of 10 arrived in Spokane in November 1963, the welcome from the Ridpath Hotel seemed almost personal.