Top Regional News
Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero/Washington State Standard
Republicans appear at risk of losing several legislative seats. Partyleaders see chances for a turnaround in November, but President Trump’sunpopularity in the state isn’t helping.
California Interagency Incident Management Team 7 and the Washington Department of Natural Resources/InciWeb
Jay Maidment
/
Columbia Pictures
Destin Daniel Cretton grew up in Maui, and says movies expanded his perspective: "I have always found movies to be a way of peering into other lives that I would never otherwise experience," he explains.
Arts & Culture
-
Rose of Nevada, now playing at the Magic Lantern Theatre, is a slow, dreamy meditation on time travel and maritime economies. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a challenging, heady film from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
-
The Odyssey is less a depiction of the Homeric poem than it is a reflection of Christopher Nolan’s trademark themes, Dan Webster says.
-
This week, Movies 101 will be discussing three movies made by foreign directors. They are the haunting British time-travel tale “Rose of Nevada,” the Icelandic domestic study “The Love That Remains” and the Croatian historical documentary “Fiume o Morte!
Events
-
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! -
Thank you for joining SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2026!
-
President Trump issued another executive order Monday, attempting to scramble how children are vaccinated in the United States.
-
New research from the March of Dimes says more than half of U.S. counties have no labor and delivery hospitals. One Black midwife tries to make a difference for moms in Alabama. -
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029. -
Voters in six states head to the polls Tuesday for high-profile primaries, Trump signals his strategy with Iran is shifting, 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills at least 111 people in Colombia.
-
A new book celebrates the 40th anniversary of Paul Simon's signature album, "Graceland." NPR's A Martinez speaks with Ashley Kahn, author of "Days of Miracle and Wonder."
-
Some voters in Alabama will be casting ballots for a second time in their congressional primary Tuesday. It's the result of a redistricting effort that followed a Supreme Court ruling.
-
In Sitka, Alaska, a Defense Department team has exhumed the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier, in hopes of identification and reburial in a place of his family's choosing.
-
As a new school year approaches, student athletes across Texas are returning to the field for fall sports, even as punishing heat lingers. How are rules and practices changing?
-
Kashmir, the disputed region at the center of the rivalry between Pakistan and India, is now holding elections amid demands for better representation and calls for a boycott.
-
Israel's war against Hezbollah in South Lebanon has poisoned land and destroyed valuable ecosystems for generations to come. NPR takes soil samples of the land.
