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This day in history: Farmers market opened in Riverfront Park. New city wells showed Spokane aquifer's purity and abundance
11+ hour, 3+ min ago (364+ words) From 1976: The Earthlife Festival and Farmers Market made its summer debut in Riverfront Park, The festival was intended as a throwback to the successful Folklife Festival area of Expo ’74, and it featured folk music, crafts and an extensive farmer’s market....
Decades of gravel at Waikiki Springs Nature Preserve to be excavated to restore wetland
2+ week, 2+ day ago (773+ words) In the 1960s, the Waikiki Springs Nature Preserve looked a little different than it does today. It’s now an urban network of trails along the Little Spokane River and owned by the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy. But decades ago, it was…...
The city's fish mascot may be celebrated, but it's livelihood in the Spokane River faces some big threats in
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (996+ words) When assessing the health of the Spokane River, many look to the native interior redband trout. A subspecies of rainbow trout, Spokane calls the redband its own, erecting sculptures of it and creating a local mascot of it in the…...
Wildfires merge on the Colville Reservation, still no containment
4+ week, 1+ day ago (175+ words) The Kartar Valley and Omak Lake fires have merged and become one fire on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation with no containment as of Thursday morning, fire officials said. Approximately 8,000 acres have burned since Tuesday when the fires…...
This day in history: 'Pure, cold water' spring provides fresh source for Grand Coulee locals. Organization sets training rules for LC athletes
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (198+ words) From 1976: A mystery spring, from a mystery source, was providing “pure, cold water” in the basement of Harvey Van Cello’s home in Grand Coulee. “Nice fresh water out of a hill,” Van Cello said. “You don’t get that kind of…...
Spokane River recreation opens near Post Falls dam | Field reports
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (125+ words) The Spokesman-Review Starting Friday, water recreationists will be able to use the Spokane River from the Spokane Street Bridge upstream to Post Falls Dam. In addition, the city of Post Falls boat launch and the swim beach at Q’emiln Park…...
Study has bold, new theory about Grand Canyon's origins
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (599+ words) The spectacle left one president in awe: “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world,” President Theodore Roosevelt said in 1903. “I shall not attempt to describe it,…...
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake near Cuba’s western side felt throughout southern Florida
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (324+ words) A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was felt throughout western Cuba on Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. According to the U.S. government agency, its epicenter was located at sea, 73 miles west-northwest of Mantua, one of Cuba’s westernmost municipalities, in the province of Pinar…...
Yakima River farmers accept early water cuts as drought deepens
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (663+ words) For an unprecedented third year in a row, an irrigation district in the Yakima River basin will shut off its water for more than a week in the early growing season to conserve the resource before the looming summer drought…...
Doing the Grand Canyon the right way, after the wrong way
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1056+ words) Dad opened the back door of our station wagon and glared at me and my sister. “Get out of the car,” he said through gritted teeth. We’d just pulled into a parking lot at Grand Canyon National Park, one of…...