Rebecca White
Former SPR News Host and ReporterRebecca White is a 2018 graduate of Edward R Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. She's been a reporter at Spokane Public Radio since February 2021. She got her start interning at her hometown paper The Dayton Chronicle and previously covered county government at The Spokesman-Review.
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Candidates span the ideological spectrum. Several argue the city council should do more to support its police department. Others say they’d like to see a compassionate approach to homelessness, and more work done to increase access to affordable housing.
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The accreditation agency wrote in a letter to NIC officials that it will continue to monitor the college, and provided leaders of a list of issues it would like addressed in the next year.
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Negotiated raises will make the Spokane Police Department more competitive in its recruitment efforts, but will also likely worsen the city's growing budget deficit.
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Local governments have two months to vote on whether they will centralize the region's homelessness response, or continue to address the issue on their own.
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The percentage of adults in Spokane County who die unattended after accidental falls went up during the pandemic. Experts say anxiety, isolation and an aging population are likely contributors. More than 87% of the people who died were older than 70.
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Researchers found that ticks are vulnerable to cold, heat or dry conditions, only when they’re in their larval stage. Tick larvae often die when exposed to extreme conditions. But the adults usually survive environmental changes, and usually just burn through more energy.
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In the wake of allegations of favoritism and increased partisan , political discord, Spokane’s city council voted Monday to empower the city’s police ombudsman to investigate Police Chief Craig Meidl.
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The Spokane School Board will soon adopt new policies that explicitly ban isolation, and restrict the use of restraint. The vote comes after a Department of Justice investigation found that more than 99% of students who had been isolated and restrained were children with disabilities.
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Leaders of Mujeres in Action, also known as MiA, say the housing crisis, paired with a lack of culturally responsive housing options, has left some survivors with nowhere to go.
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The Spokane Valley City Council expanded its definition of "nuisance properties," and gave itself the option to ask a judge to allow the city to board up a property and sell it through receivership, if the owners don't follow warnings to clean up.