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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Armida Rivera was working as a supervisor at Monson Fruit Company near Yakima during the COVID-19 pandemic, when workers asked her to strike with them.She didn't hesitate to say yes. But not long after, she was fired. -
Armida Rivera trabajaba como supervisora en Monson Fruit Company, cerca de Yakima, durante la pandemia de COVID-19, cuando los trabajadores le pidieron que se uniera a la huelga.No dudó en decir que sí. Pero poco después, la despidieron. -
A dance party broke out at Hat Trick Brewery, after Mexico opened the World Cup with a 2-0 victory against South Africa. -
Addy Republican Shelly Short is facing three challengers in her run for re-election to the Washington Senate. -
A hotel in central Washington is being converted to a temporary home for farmworkers as a change in federal law makes it easier to pay them less. -
REPUBLIC – Rep. Michael Baumgartner held his first town hall on Monday in Republic as he campaigns for re-election. -
Construction is underway for a new $2.3 million primary care clinic in Reardan. -
Support for a proposed tax for libraries in Stevens County is well behind in the first batch of votes tallied in Tuesday’s election. -
HUNTERS — Water quality in this small town northwest of Spokane is about to get a major upgrade. -
SEATTLE – The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried.
