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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
A $20 million effort to rehabilitate 158 affordable housing units near Upriver Drive between Avista Corp.’s headquarters and Greene Street has been proposed by Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington. Jonathan Mallahan, chief housing officer for the nonprofit, said 122 of the units are located in one Spokane apartment complex previously called the El Estero Apartments.
Cougar Crest nearing reopening
Since closing its previous location, Cougar Crest Winery Estate had hoped to reopen in downtown Spokane as soon as this weekend, pending inspections. Cougar Crest has moved to 830 W. Sprague Ave., just a block west of its old storefront at 8 N. Post St.
Habit Burger on North Division
A new burger joint is coming to North Division Street, according to plans submitted to the city of Spokane. The permit application calls for a drive-through restaurant with a small patio at 7404 N. Division St. The location is on the northeast corner of the arterial and its intersection with East Cozza Drive and to the east of Holy Cross Cemetery. The property was previously home to a Wells Fargo branch but was demolished in June of 2023. Habit Burger is also opening a franchise later this year in Airway Heights. The North Division location will become the second location in the Spokane area,
Individuals and small businesses have been paying more for power in recent years, and their electricity rates may climb higher still. That’s because the cost of the power plants, transmission lines and other equipment that utilities need to serve data centers, factories and other large users of electricity is likely to be spread to everybody who uses electricity, according to a new report.
Pakistan’s military said Sunday that it expected a fragile calm along the border with India to hold, as senior officers from both countries continue to talk on a direct line after the region was jolted by four days of missile attacks and airstrikes. Top military officers from both sides “are in contact, a mechanism is in place,” Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the spokesperson for Pakistan’s armed forces, told The New York Times.
Vice President JD Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome on Sunday as the Trump administration continued to push for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
The Israeli military announced Sunday that its forces had begun “extensive ground operations” throughout the northern and southern Gaza Strip, advancing its plan to move farther into the enclave and seize more land in an intensified campaign likely to displace more civilians there.
The Statesman-Examiner, the Newport Miner and the Columbia Basin Herald – three rural newspapers in Eastern Washington – have adapted their strategies to stay relevant and remain essential sources of trusted local news.
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