Top Regional News
Idaho Department of Agriculture
Quagga mussels detected again in Idaho, but numbers are down as Ag Department makes eradication push
This is the fourth consecutive year the mussels, which are an invasive species, have been detected in Snake River near Twin Falls
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NASA launched a telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer whose work helped make Hubble and generations of space telescopes possible.
Arts & Culture
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This week, "Movies 101" will be discussing two films that feature teen characters. One, titled Tony, is based on the early life of a real person, the late chef and travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain. The other is a trek into horror titled, appropriately, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. -
As the biopic Tony shows, movie attempts to capture the character of a real person all too often fall flat, Dan Webster says.
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The End of Oak Street is a standard family-in-crisis movie with a fantastical dystopian conceit, Dan Webster says.
Events
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Join SPR as we welcome NPR's David Folkenflik to The Bing Crosby Theater on April 14, 2026 -
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival
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A new study found a high proportion of NFL players develop brain trauma, but it is unclear what this means for youth football players.
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NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele discuss the legal drama in college football as professional players attempt to come back to campus and the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.
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Maine's lobster fishing industry is closely integrated with processors across the border in Canada. People who depend on it are feeling whiplash from on-again, off-again tariff threats.
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The trade war escalated between the U.S. and Canada, and the Trump administration tried to cut off Iran economically. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Wendy Cutler of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
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People have been avoiding lettuce this summer. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel, who says we really should just skip the lettuce, permanently.
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President Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America to provoke Canadian leaders. Meanwhile, the new Fed chair says inflation continues to be a problem.
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The Dollywood theme park in Tennessee is a tribute to the late singer and will go on without her.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks about how cities must change to survive deadly heat waves with Georgia Tech researcher Brian Stone.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anthony Field, of the hit musical group The Wiggles, about making a career out of entertaining toddlers.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lithuanian film director Andrius Blazevicius about his new film, "How to Divorce During the War."
