Top Regional News
Plus, the city of Spokane will offer a free permit pre-screening service for wildfire survivors rebuilding damaged homes. And Maddie’s Place, a nonprofit recovery nursery for substance-exposed newborns, celebrates its fourth anniversary amid a budget shortfall.
The Office of Army Cemeteries have returned the remains of 11 Native American and Alaska Native students who died while attending the Carlisle boarding school in Pennsylvania more than a century ago.
Arts & Culture
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Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime takes a critical look at the man behind the television show “To Catch a Predator,” Dan Webster says.
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In Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, the host of “To Catch a Predator” on the hunt for ratings and journalistic recognition. Nathan Weinbender says the movie is a simplistic but oddly compelling true-life horror story.
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Spokane Symphony Music Director James Lowe and From the Studio host Jim Tevenan talk about the second Masterworks program of the new SSO season.
Events
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Spokane Public Radio is a media partner for Spokane Bike Everywhere Month 2026.
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Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026
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Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager about President Trump's new pick for press secretary, Katie Zacharia.
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Alabama and the Florida Panhandle bore the brunt of Hurricane Isaias. While the storm weakened once it hit land, four people lost their lives. Meanwhile, other storms are affecting the Pacific coast.
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The 15th Congressional District runs from the east of San Antonio all the way down into the Rio Grande Valley. This majority-Latino district provides a window into the Latino vote in Texas.
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Military justice expert Eugene Fidell of Yale Law School speaks to NPR about the Pentagon's plan to livestream the execution of a convicted mass murderer.
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Protesters in the Indian capital have again defied authorities to demonstrate against a controversial revision of the country's voter rolls that has seen 130 million people removed, or threatened with removal.
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Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.
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The Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into major television networks, including CNN, after President Trump banned them from them from the White House.
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The deadliest attack on a Gulf Arab state since the Iran war began has heightened concerns that the United States could become directly involved in another regional conflict.
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Lindsay Owens, president of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, about how companies using data to transform the products and prices customers see.