Did you pay attention to the news last week? Let’s find out. And after you’ve warmed up your “news sense,” try our online quiz at spokesman.com/newsquiz for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Davenport Hotel or tickets to the Spokane Golf Show. 1. The Spokane Association of Realtors announced last week that in Spokane County for December 2011

GRAND COULEE – The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will host its awards and installation luncheon at noon Thursday, Feb. 9, at Pepper Jack's Bar and Grill, 113 Grand Coulee Highway.

Democratic presidents used to visit Washington for purposes of doing public business and meeting the public. That was before Barack Obama. Franklin Roosevelt witnessed Olympic rain forests — which he would soon put into a national park — and Grand Coulee Dam construction. Harry Truman whistle- stopped through rural Washington. John F. Kennedy dedicated the N-reactor at Hanford. Lyndon Johnson ...

WAPATO, Wash. -- U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings wants to make it easier for school districts with large amounts of federally owned land in their borders to apply for federal construction grants.

The billion dollars it would cost to raise the dam holding back the largest reservoir in California would, at least on the surface, be money well spent, a federal study concluded this week. A study by the U.S. Bureau of...

Frances E. Jabbusch, 97, of Wenatchee, died Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.

Next-generation technologies that harvest electricity from ocean waves and tides sloshing along the U.S. coasts could provide about 9 percent of the nation's demand by 2030, according to a pair of recent studies.

Next-generation technologies that harvest electricity from ocean waves and tides sloshing along the U.S.

Born Aug. 14, 1934, in Omak, Wash., passed to our Lord Jan. 14, 2012, at Spokane Hospice House.

Shirley Ann Jenkin was born August 14, 1934, in Omak, WA, and passed to our Lord on January 14, 2012, at Spokane Hospice House. She graduated from Omak High School in 1952, entering WSC (now WSU) the next fall for their nursing program. Her nursing classes were in the old St. Luke's Hospital, where she learned to love the city of Spokane.