James Hanlon

1 month ago | spokesman.com | James Hanlon

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee completed a takeover of the Community Library Network Tuesday when its preferred candidate won a fifth seat on the board of trustees. Victoria Bauman beat Michelle Lippert with 57% of the vote. The seat was open after Trustee Tony Ambrosetti, who was appointed to fill a vacancy late last year, declined to run for a full term.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | James Hanlon

NAKUSP, British Columbia – Six years after the last wild caribou in the Lower 48 was relocated to Canada, conservationists and Inland Northwest tribes see a glimmer of hope less than 100 miles north of the border. Nestled by a hot springs resort near Goat Range Provincial Park, some woodland caribou cows of the southern mountain population are about to give birth in the safety of 6-hectare enclosure guarded from predators by a high-voltage electric fence.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | James Hanlon

May 14—Federal research on mine safety will continue despite job cuts, including at a facility in Spokane, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Sen. Patty Murray, a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, asked Kennedy why some workers are being reinstated at a laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia, but none at the Spokane Research Laboratory, which covers the western United States.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | James Hanlon

Federal research on mine safety will continue despite massive job cuts including a facility in Spokane, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Sen. Patty Murray, a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, asked Kennedy why some workers are being reinstated at a laboratory in Morgantown, West Virginia, but none at the Spokane Research Laboratory, which covers the western United States.

1 month ago | thenewstribune.com | James Hanlon |Nick Gibson

May 8-For a brief moment, it seemed Spokane would have a direct link to the papacy, and more so than just the Washington State University flag that was spotted waving in the Vatican square during the conclave. Word of the new pope's ties to Chicago spread quickly, and with bated breath, some Spokane residents hoped to hear Cardinal Blase Cupich's name called. Cupich served as bishop of Spokane from 2010 to 2014, when he was tapped by Pope Francis to become Archbishop of Chicago.