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, Kootenai County is trying to prevent quarries from digging down past the region's aquifer. And Washington homeowners can't find home insurance thanks to increased threat from wildfires. -
Plus, the Washington Senate wants to require sheriffs be certified police officers. And rural Inland Northwest churches are putting down their differences to combat Christian nationalism. -
Plus, Washington tries to make grocery hauls more affordable. And Idaho could up bathroom restrictions against trans people. -
Special election results from across Eastern Washington roll in. -
The site is part of the ancestral fishing grounds of the Spokane Tribe. -
Women in Coeur d'Alene protest restrictions to books and maternal health. -
If it passes the House, Washington would have some of the strictest regulations on Flock cameras and other ALPRs in the country. -
West Central Abbey received a grant from the National Trust for Sacred Places. What makes it sacred?To match the grant dollars, the abbey enlists local authors who have been inspired by the century-old church. -
Rev. Genevieve Heywood was one of the eastern Washington faith leaders who went to Minnesota to support anti-ICE protests -
Plus, Washington public health entities realize they are missing millions of dollars. And Idaho voters should make sure to have their IDs ready.
