Rebecca White
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Hope House, a Spokane women's shelter that recently expanded into an 80-bed facility, may close its overnight shelter in January. Leaders said they need additional funding from the city of Spokane to keep operations going.
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Initial results are too close too call in the race that will likely determine the partisan lean of the Spokane County commission. On election night incumbent Republican Al French was ahead of Democratic challenger Maggie Yates by about 1.8 percent, or about 540 votes.
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Charles Durrett is an architect who has helped create co-housing communities and villages housing formerly homeless residents across the West Coast. One such project, in California, permanently housed several previously homeless veterans.
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A sexual assault kit is evidence a nurse collects after a person reports a sexual assault to law enforcement. Many sheriff’s offices and police departments have evidence going back as far as 40 years, but never had the DNA that was collected tested.
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Law enforcement leaders from across the state made one last push against police and criminal justice reform, and candidates on the ballot who support it this election.
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Camp residents, as well as Jewels Helping Hands and Disability Rights Washington, which are also suing, say clearing the camp is unconstitutional, and discriminates against people with disabilities, according to the lawsuit.
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Until now, most 911 calls in Spokane were handled by SREC. But that agency, and many fire districts are critically short staffed. To make sure calls are answered, Spokane Police dispatchers are taking on extra responsibilities.
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The contractor, the Guardians Foundation, has a former employee under investigation for embezzlement. City staff has also found several accounting discrepancies and poor financial record keeping.
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A new analysis of Washington State’s long-term care payroll tax program has found that in most scenarios, the fund is solvent.
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State agency leaders say the city's proposal to clear the camp from the right of way in a few weeks is an unachievable, and a misleading promise to make to Spokane’s East Central neighborhood.