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, 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. -
Plus, the National Weather Service forecasts blizzard-like conditions in the Cascades. And a YouTube "cottage industry" is making Spokane County consider making people pay for body cam footage. -
Plus, Stevens County doesn't have designated funding for its ambulance service and the Spokane City Council rejiggers its public comment process at council meetings. -
Plus, how a record-low snowpack could impact Washington orchards. And some toxins from pesticides and fungicides are sticking around far longer than researchers originally thought. -
Plus, the Washington House approves a ban on masks for law enforcement. And the Colbert Superfund site still needs significant attention. -
Plus, what do new immigration enforcement ordinances in Spokane really mean? And it turns out Washington's tech leaders are pushing both for and against the state's proposed income tax. -
Plus, Newport loses hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers, and state lawmakers in Olympia and Boise fight over where and how much spending to cut to tackle budget deficits in both states. -
Plus, elected officials across the Northwest are reacting to the Trump administration's military strikes in Iran, and the Washington legislature approves operating, capital and transportation budgets. -
The Spokane poet and teacher releases her first memoir investigating an off-the-grid childhood.
