Shawn Vestal

I wrote my first newspaper column when I was 14 years old.

Last January, Spokane County launched a pilot program that attempted to connect some nonviolent criminal defendants with services addressing problems such as poverty, drug addiction and mental illness.

When Julie Garcia was 39 years old, she had her second heart attack.

The man hailed as the savior of free speech, who pledged to create the “most accurate source of information in the world,” has stepped in it again – a big, soft pile of very free, very dumb, very wrong speech.

It was one day of waterless misery, two minutes of fleeting joy and an hour of soggy panic, followed by an exhilarating rescue by the heroes of the city water department and our plumber.

It’s a Tuesday morning, and the eviction docket is full in Judge Michelle Szambelan’s courtroom.

When Katie Vozzy went into the hospital in July, she expected she’d be off work for a couple of weeks.

There is a fascinating Inland Northwest origin story that didn’t make it into George Clooney’s new film.

More than three years after a faculty report urged Eastern Washington University to rethink its spending on athletics – and particularly football – at a time of widespread budget cuts in academics, a new universitywide program review is making a similar recommendation.

It was Thanksgiving break. Moscow, Idaho. Sometime in the dimly remembered – at least by me – middle of the 1980s.