Top Regional News
Oregon Department of Transportation
Amtrak’s sleek, amenity-packed new trains will debut on the Cascades intercity route at the end of the month
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Lisa Leinberger
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Spokane Public Radio
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about worries that Russia's "hybrid attacks" could lead to a direct military confrontation with NATO.
Arts & Culture
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Conversation and music with SSO Music Director James Lowe and guest pianist Mackenzie Melemed around the first Masterworks concert of the SSO season. -
Jim Tevenan, James Lowe and Dr. Jason Moody discuss the great variety of projects that bring the Spokane Symphony out to the Inland Northwest community. -
Conversation around the new Symphony season and the great variety of performances planned
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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Over the years NPR's Michele Kelemen has seen high stakes diplomacy play out at the UN General Assembly.
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The President of Sacramento State talks about their Black honors college -- and how schools are dealings with DEI under the Trump administration.
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Researchers in Taiwan are racing to restore a crucial piece of the island's film history, before it's lost forever.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Adéla, about the rising popstar's debut album, Prima.
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With her 1974 book, "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Annie Dillard became the youngest woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. We take a moment to remember her and her work. -
The Trump administration was frustrated both home and abroad this week.
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The leaders of France, Poland, and other leading European nations are alarmed over what they describe as Russian "hybrid" attacks.
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Carnegie Deli, famous for its sandwiches piled high with meat, has reopened as a sit-down restaurant in New York City after a 10-year hiatus.
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The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city's Black community.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sportswriter Howard Bryant discuss Major League Baseball's pennant race and start of football season.
