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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Every day after working as a financial analyst, Luis Pérez goes to his garage to look for his next project. -
The Northeast Tri County Health District, which provides services to Stevens, Ferry and Pend Oreille counties, reports two additional measles cases, bringing the recent total to three cases. -
Special election results from across Eastern Washington roll in. -
The St. John and Endicott school districts, located in Whitman County, are asking voters to renew levies set to expire. While each district operates its own elementary school, Endicott hosts middle school students and St. John hosts high school students, said Tricia Jeffries, Endicott’s superintendent and principal. -
Arnoldo Tiul Caal and 10-year-old Karla Tiul Baltazar were arrested Jan. 10 despite an ongoing asylum case and transported to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, in Dilley, Texas, where they remain. -
Newport School District officials are hoping voters will approve a $46.3 million bond and a $8.8 million levy on the Feb. 10 ballot. -
Plus, Washington warns the federal administration about illegal immigration enforcement. And a Newport high school gets flooded right after it proposes a new bond. -
Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.
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For years, families in Pomeroy have driven at least 30 minutes to find childcare. Now, a community-led effort is working to bring those services back to town. -
Late last week, rumors on social media swirled that the Omak Library was on the brink of closure, prompting more than 100 people to attend Monday’s city council meeting.
