Ted McDermott

Rebar is showing on the surface of the Central Ferry Bridge connecting Whitman and Garfield counties. The WSDOT says it doesn’t have enough money for repairs, and is instead slowing traffic to minimize damage.

GRAND COULEE, Wash. – Darvin Fales stood on the North Dam of Banks Lake on a recent morning and looked down through the town of Grand Coulee toward the water of Lake Roosevelt shimmering in the distance.

If you were south of Coeur d’Alene, where Paul Zambino lives, last week, you probably wouldn’t even know the larch were there.

The list, released last month and slated for approval next month, is a collection of improvements that have been needed for decades, neighbors argue.

Three options have emerged for the Children of the Sun trail connecting Hillyard to the East Central neighborhood as work on the North Spokane Corridor heats up over the next several years. One would include elevating the trail alongside the interstate, but bike and pedestrian interests are less tha…

COOLIN, IDAHO – “There’s a lot of emotions tied up in this,” Bob Bond said. “Sadness, frustration, anger – you name it.”

Federal regulations concerning competition against private charters may limit what the public transit authority can do to help the issue facing Spokane schools. But the agencies are trying to work together to ease students’ delays in getting to school.

The Biden administration has announced it will prioritize funding for transportation projects promoting equity and sustainability. That has local traffic planners rethinking their pitches for federal cash.

It didn’t look like much, just a snake of black pipe running along the shoulder of a dirt road, above the bank of a small stream called Blue Creek.

Closing the short on-ramp near the Thor/Freya couplet will speed up rush hour drive time on the freeway, but would make for longer pauses for cars hoping to merge at the next ramp to the east, traffic planners said.

With the backing of the city of Spokane and support from City Councilwoman Betsy Wilkerson, the East Central neighborhood council and others, WSDOT recently submitted a grant that would allocate $1.3 million to “look at the potential of a land bridge across I-90.”

Shannon Benn went door to door, soliciting input from her neighbors in Minnehaha.

The arrival of the City Line in neighborhoods including Logan and Chief Garry is coinciding with efforts to allow denser development along rapid transit lines within city limits.

With its sandy cove, towering pines, views of the Green Monarchs and 13 acres of total solitude, separated from everyone by the pristine waters of Lake Pend Oreille, Memaloose Island has everything anyone looking for luxurious seclusion could ask for, except a house.

Spokane’s $81 million in pandemic-relief money could be spent in many ways. Survey respondents have put a protected bike lane network on the list of desired projects, and a potential connection in West Central could be one of many steps toward making that system a reality.

There’s a new fork in Airport Drive, and you will want to pay attention when you reach it.

What once was known as the Rathdrum Prairie might more accurately be described now as the “shared tier.”

The headaches for drivers in Liberty Lake will get worse before they get better.

Early planning work 15 years ago established a price tag and some early ideas of what light rail might look like between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. A pair of advisory votes effectively killed that momentum. Now, the backers of that original planning say it’s time to dust off those documents.

An analysis of options to connect the northern terminus of the trail with existing systems in Spokane ends without a final recommendation. But city planners say they believe they’ve come up with one that allays all concerns about the safety of cyclists and other trail users.