Top Regional News
The report, cheekily named "Build SHIIT Now," says more than 250 projects, 580,000 jobs, and 24 gigawatts are at risk in Washington state due to bureaucratic delays.
Jodie Foster has spoken French since she was a child. But it's only now that she's taken on a lead role scripted almost entirely in the language of Molière, for A Private Life.
Arts & Culture
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of 2025 films that made a number of Best-of-the-Year lists: Josh Safdie’s "Marty Supreme" and Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s "The Secret Agent."
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Nathan Weinbender runs down his picks for the best 10 movies of 2025.
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Movie Reviews“The Secret Agent” is an intense study of what it meant to be a target of corrupt forces in 1970s Brazil, Dan Webster says.
Events
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The 2026 Record Sale will take place February 14 and 15 at CenterPlace Regional Event Center, Spokane Valley
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Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival
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Trump threatens military action to stop the protests in Minneapolis, Maria Corina Machado presents Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize, Trump announces health plan that's scant on details.
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Prosecutors face multiple challenges in proving Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro played a central role in a cocaine-trafficking conspiracy that spans some two decades.
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Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the warning signs they watch for before the bubble bursts.
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The Heritage Foundation argues in a new report that declining marriage rates pose a threat to society. NPR discusses the findings with Jennifer Sciubba of the Population Reference Bureau.
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A growing number of young people are getting involved in what are traditionally considered "grandma hobbies," like knitting, to relax.
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado met with President Trump Thursday and talked about the future of Venezuela, including the prospect of new elections.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to Eduardo Gamarra, a politics and international relations professor at Florida International University, about María Corina Machado's meeting with President Trump.
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Dozens of college basketball players have been implicated in a sweeping point-shaving and betting scheme. Federal prosecutors allege they conspired to "underperform" during games and reap the winnings.
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A woman who was married to a man twice her age remembers their relationship, and the important question she asked him when they spoke to StoryCorps 20 years ago.
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A recent increase in violent incidents between ICE agents and residents in cities like Minneapolis has raised questions about how federal immigration agents are trained and the protocols they follow.