Eliza Billingham
ReporterEliza Billingham is a full-time news reporter for SPR. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Boston University, where she was selected as a fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover an illegal drug addiction treatment center in Hanoi, Vietnam. She’s spent her professional career in Spokane, covering everything from rent crises and ranching techniques to City Council and sober bartenders. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she’s lived in Vietnam, Austria and Jerusalem and will always be a slow runner and a theology nerd.
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Plus, Spokane tries to attract new doctors. And a north Idaho school district fires its superintendent. -
Plus, Idaho is closer to criminalizing the use of opposite gender bathroom by transgender people. And Washington doesn't need pennies anymore. -
Plus, private equity investors may be the reason fire trucks stop showing up to calls. And Washington creates a new authority to speed up power transmission. -
After last night's Concacaf Champions Cup game at ONE Spokane Stadium, here's a peek behind the curtain at what made it all happen. -
Plus, rural Washington hospitals get a lifeline, elections officials raise alarms about the SAVE America Act, the legacy of Cesar Chavez gets a reexamination, the Seattle Sounders cross the Cascades and March Madness begins for the Zags and Vandals., -
Plus, fewer people are using Spokane's homelessness services, a parking tax clears City Council, the ID House passes another transgender bathroom ban, and the NBA eyes a return to Washington. -
A slew of new signings turns rivals into assets. -
Plus, the Washington legislature closes out a contentious session while Idaho lawmakers reject some spending cuts while deregulating short term rentals and requiring teachers to notify parents of transgender kids. -
Plus, severe weather hits the Inland Northwest. And a YouTube "cottage industry" is forcing Spokane County to consider charging fees for police body cam footage. -
Spokane County is considering charging $0.78 per minute of recording to cover the cost of redaction.
