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Two people are dead after a shooting inside the Rockwood Cancer Treatment Center on Tuesday morning. More on facing page.
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Washington made history Tuesday when a handful of recreational marijuana stores opened across the state, including one in Spokane. Full coverage starts on page 24.
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The owner of the controversial Spokane Downtown Daiquiri Factory lost an appeal last week to reopen his evicted business. The bar drew ire when it named a drink “Date Grape Koolaid” and was evicted after the owner fell behind on rent, according to his landlord.
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One of three commercial airplane bodies has been removed from the Clark Fork River in western Montana. The Boeing 737 fuselages plunged into the river when the train carrying them derailed last Thursday.
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The damp soil and strong sunlight of Priest Lake makes for one of the region’s best huckleberry-picking spots. As huckleberry season kicks off in mid-July, the area is chock-full of bushes like the one pictured, discovered east of Priest Lake near Hunt Creek Falls. “[Huckleberries] taste like Priest Lake,” longtime Priest Lake local Pecky Cox says. “Priest Lakers have a special connection through that flavor.”
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to spend nearly $4 billion in emergency funding to address a wave of immigration, especially by unaccompanied children, along the country’s southern border.
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New Washington residents between 2013 and 2014, the largest one-year population increase since 2008.
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People across Washington who received food handling permits through the eFoodhandlers website, which the state attorney general’s office now says are not valid. People who received those permits should receive refunds by September.
HOW-TO: Riverfront Park now has free Wi-Fi. Learn how it works on the blog. FUN: Marshmallows: Toasted or engulfed in flames? In honor of last week’s Outdoors Issue, we asked you and broke down the results on Inlander.com. All the outdoors stories are at Inlander.com/outdoorsissue