OWEN HENDERSON: From Spokane Public Radio, it’s SPR News Today. I’m Owen Henderson. It’s January 14, 2026. On today’s show, Washington state may face a new controversy over face masks. This time, ...

City leaders in Spokane are trying to understand the strings attached if they accept a grant from the Department of Justice. Spokane’s Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, wants to accept a ...

New coins marking the United States' 250th anniversary begin circulating this week. The Trump administration tweaked the ...

In 2013, John Kindschuh was chatting with another patient in the hospital when his words abruptly slurred. That patient ...

Miguel Tamburini got a call from his mother last night, after bombs began hitting Venezuela just blocks away from her home.

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California is writing rules to limit plants around buildings to protect them from wildfires, after the Los Angeles fires a ...

The Secret Agent” is an intense study of what it meant to be a target of corrupt forces in 1970s Brazil, Dan Webster says.

Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat serving on the House Armed Services Committee, says Trump administration officials offered ...

My 6th favorite film of 2025 is Sorry, Baby, a brilliant debut from writer-director-star Eva Victor. It’s like a collection ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...

President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate ...