Monica Carrillo-Casas
SPR Reporter/Murrow FellowMonica Carrillo-Casas joined SPR in July 2024 as a rural reporter through the WSU College of Communication’s Murrow Fellows program. Monica focuses on rural issues in northeast Washington for both the Spokesman-Review and SPR.
Before joining SPR’s news team, Monica Carrillo-Casas was the Hispanic life and affairs reporter at the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Carrillo-Casas interned and worked as a part-time reporter at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, through Voces Internship of Idaho, where she covered the University of Idaho tragic quadruple homicide. She was also one of 16 students chosen for the 2023 POLITICO Journalism Institute — a selective 10-day program for undergraduate and graduate students that offers training and workshops to sharpen reporting skills.
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Older residents and young readers flipped through pages and hugged stacks of books at Seekers Bookshop’s soft opening Nov. 1. -
On a square black velvet cloth, Lesly Ellis carefully shapes grains of rice in honor of the Mayan calendar symbol for this year’s Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead. -
According to the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, nearly 2,000 in Ferry County, more than 3,500 in Pend Orielle County, and over 10,000 in Stevens County rely on SNAP. -
It was a cloudy Wednesday afternoon as Lupe Reyna, 83, stared at an old gray building with boarded-off entrances – once a store for migrant workers. -
Eduardo Chavez has adapted his documentary “Hailing Cesar,” which follows his own journey to understand the life and legacy of his grandfather, into a children's book. -
In the 1990s, writer/historian Jack Nisbet took part in a Forest Service walk from Chewelah to Kettle Falls, where participants discussed the history of the area’s tribal people – and highlighted the cultural and spiritual importance of the land. -
The White House announced regulatory changes Oct. 2 to the Adverse Effect Wage Rate, which sets the minimum wage employers must pay temporary foreign agricultural workers under the H-2A program. The change followed the August cancellation of the Farm Labor Survey, which previously provided the data used to determine employment and wage estimates. -
Multiple No Kings Day rallies took place throughout the day in Stevens County. According to Mathew Johansen, the chair for the Colville branch of Indivisible, there were 160 attendees in Chewelah, 291 in Colville and 140 in Kettle Falls. -
A new early learning center north of Spokane in the town of Valley is set to open next fall, with the goal to bridge and improve child care for the rural community. -
The city of Chewelah wants to improve outdoor recreation for kids in town. And they just got half a million dollars in grant money to do it.
