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Once Spokane's only Black school board member, Jerrall Haynes has steered the district to a 'drastically different place'

By Wilson Criscione

Jul 22, 2021

Less than a month into the job, Jerrall Haynes, a 26-year-old fresh off a stunning election victory, got his first taste of the challenge he'd often face as the only Black person on the school board. It was December 2015, and the Spokane Public Schools Board of Directors was deciding the fate of a Black student, Quincy Marin, who was given a long-term suspension for allegedly threatening an administrator at Lewis and Clark High School...

Spokane Public Schools board president Jerrall Haynes won't seek re-election this year.

Spokane's former HR director Amber Richards told Woodward administration she couldn't continue at city "in good faith or with good conscience"

By Daniel Walters
Jul 28, 2021
Records show top Eastern State Hospital officials were warned of domestic violence by nurse before alleged murder

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 23, 2021
Spokane Public Schools pays $275k to family of Black teen pinned down by resource officer

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 22, 2021
Searching for solutions to Spokane's public restroom shortage

By Nate Sanford
Jul 22, 2021
Three candidates want to give Spokane's northeast City Council district much needed attention

By Samantha Wohlfeil
Jul 22, 2021
Meet the candidates running to represent northwest Spokane

By Nate Sanford
Jul 22, 2021
As the housing crisis worsens, the city of Spokane struggles to staff the planning department needed to respond to it

By Daniel Walters
Jul 15, 2021
Spokane Public Schools agrees to changes in settlement over kindergartner illegally placed in isolation

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 15, 2021
Environmentalists and Spokane Tribe want court to order specific chemical limits for Spokane River polluters

By Samantha Wohlfeil
Jul 15, 2021
The Spokane City Council intends to give Cupid Alexander a public exit interview

By Daniel Walters
Jul 9, 2021
Airway Heights Police Officer resigns amid investigation into alleged domestic violence

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 9, 2021
The government acknowledges UFOs after years of denial, but local UFOlogists aren't satisfied by the answers

By Quinn Welsch
Jul 8, 2021
Spokane Public Schools grapples with criticism that new school boundaries will damage equity goals

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 8, 2021
Historic, deadly heat wave hits Inland Northwest, forcing blackouts that raise questions about our electric future

By Samantha Wohlfeil
Jul 8, 2021
Woman Is Killed in Montana Bear Attack

By The New York Times
Jul 7, 2021
Council members say tensions between them and the Woodward administration have never been higher

By Daniel Walters
Jul 2, 2021
Twenty drag performers leave the Globe after disagreements over pay and working conditions

By Nate Sanford
Jul 1, 2021
Neighbors worried that recreation is exposing kids to toxins on the Coeur d'Alene River form a nonprofit to address issues

By Samantha Wohlfeil
Jul 1, 2021
A top state health official was fired over a personal email targeting the Spokane Regional Health District for ousting its health officer

By Wilson Criscione
Jul 1, 2021
Amber Richards, an HR director even Spokane Councilwoman Stratton could praise, submits her resignation

By Daniel Walters
Jun 30, 2021