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Consumer advocates worry that unchecked wildfire spending will drive up electricity rates across the West
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Idaho Mythweaver
In a massive restructuring under the Trump administration, U.S. Forest Service is closing dozens of research stations but, as NPR's Chiara Eisner reports, it is keeping some facilities open that had been projected to shutter.
Arts & Culture
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Jim Tevenan and James Lowe talk about the SSO's Labor Day concerts -
In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, two women are pulled into the intoxicating, problematic world of ’80s slasher movies. Nathan Weinbender says its exploration of fear and desire is stronger than its dissection of horror tropes. -
This week, "Movies 101" will be discussing two films that feature teen characters. One, titled Tony, is based on the early life of a real person, the late chef and travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain. The other is a trek into horror titled, appropriately, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Events
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EventsStop by your local Farmers' Market this summer and visit with SPR staff and volunteers at various Farmers' Markets in our region. -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for the 2026 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival -
SPR was a Media Partner for Rock the Block: West Central! We also hosted our first-ever Record Sale Pop-Up Shop at the event!
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On the centennial of father's birth, Ravi Coltrane talks about turning the home where the jazz legend spent a crucial period in the 1950s into a cultural heritage and community space.
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The Republican midterm convention in Dallas takes place in the same city that helped give rise to the Bush political dynasty. Still, many policies championed by the conservative presidents are noticeably absent from today's Republican Party.
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A United Nations report has found that the world will warm to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Climate solutions advocate Ayana Elizabeth Johnson urges a quicker implementation of known strategies - and determination rather than despair.
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NPR's Bobby Allyn talks about covering the prediction markets, where anyone can trade bets on the outcome of anything happening in the real world.
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The Alta Heritage Foundation has arrived in Washington for the first time. The volunteer archaeologists have one mission: to find and recover the cremated loved ones of people who lost homes to the Spokane wildfires. -
"Blue," a statue that's been on the grounds of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for 7 years has been dismantled and removed. -
A captain with the New York City Fire Department 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001, tells his daughter for the first time what he experienced that day.
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The Trump administration says it will break ground on a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., without final federal approval and despite an ongoing lawsuit.
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New research at the American Chemical Society meeting showcased a potentially edible cookie made out of — plastic!
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Lung cancer is still the top cancer killer. But new developments are shifting what the future might hold for patients, as one man's cancer journey shows.
