Steve Jackson
News ReporterSteve was part of the Spokane Public Radio family for many years before he came on air in 1999. His wife, Laurie, produced Radio Ethiopia in the late 1980s through the '90s, and Steve used to “lurk in the shadowy world” of Weekend SPR. Steve has done various on air shifts at the station, including nearly 15 years as the local Morning Edition host. Currently, he is the voice of local weather and news during All Things Considerd, writing, editing, producing and/or delivering newscasts and features for both KPBX and KSFC. Aside from SPR, Steve ,who lives in the country, enjoys gardening, chickens, playing and listening to music, astronomy, photography, sports cars and camping.
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A California-based company is working to complete a bitcoin mining facility in an old newsprint plant. One local resident says it'll draw too much electricity and hire too few people. -
The Priest Lake resident challenged government timber sales for years.
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Proponents see this as a way to head off future legal trouble.
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A collaborative effort is underway to measure where north Idaho's tundra swans are exposed to contaminated sediment, and if their lead exposure is decreasing.
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Unions, nurse argue changing staffing ratios would address the nurse burnout crisis. Hospitals say it would be prohibitively expensive to implement
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The surge appears to have plateaued in western Washington, not yet east of the Cascades
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A new bill before the Washington State Legislature would make it a felony to sell fake vaccination cards and a misdemeanor to use one.
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Spokane’s city council wants to enforce a tax on revenues for a sewage plant within city limits. The tax would apply to people who live outside the city, and one state lawmaker said that isn’t fair. He’s filed a bill to stop it.
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Pullman’s public library board heard from the public this week as it considers criticism of a painting of a former president that hangs in the library’s…
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2021 is among the driest years on record for Spokane, but conditions have improved dramatically in the past couple of months.Back in September, the city's…
