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The Idaho State Capitol Building in Boise
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Wildfires have now scorched four million acres of land in the U.S. Federal fire managers say all of the country's resources are currently deployed to major fires.
Arts & Culture
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Director Jean Hardie and student actors from Spokane Civic Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream visited the SPR studio to preview the production, including a reading from Shakespeare's legendary script. -
Theater on the Verge visits the studio to preview their first concert, The Art of the Possible: Songs for a Marginally Less Terrible World, featuring performances from singers Abbey Crawford and Robby French. -
Maddie’s Secret, from comedian John Early, is a hard film to classify. It plays like an homage to a 1980s TV movie about a woman with an eating disorder, and Nathan Weinbender says it’s a surprisingly thoughtful and sometimes absurd study of an often-mocked genre.
Events
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Spokane Public Radio is 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! -
EventsJoin SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2026
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NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Linda Bilmes, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and expert of budgeting and public finance, about why the war between the U.S. and Iran has become so expensive.
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An NPR business correspondent explains how to cover the complex story of how small businesses are coping with tariffs.
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Led by Gen-Z youth across India, the movement has become perhaps the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 12 years in office. -
What do World Cup champions crave after a win? Pizza from an Orange, N.J., bagel shop. BXJ made 46 pies for the Spanish team after their victory. -
Sound artist Bill Fontana creates works that often show the hidden music of everyday environments. His new work amplifies still bells at the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
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The annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, postponed after a shooting on April 25, took place Friday night.
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The U.S. has undertaken a sustained missile and drone assault on Iran over the past two weeks.
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The Trump administration has employed a number of new paths for its tariff regime after the Supreme Court invalidated earlier tariffs.
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The U.S. and Canada are opening a bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, without celebration as wildfires and tariffs increase tensions.
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Ukraine's attacks on warehouses of the Russian online retailer Wildberries have hurt small businesses and some consumers.
