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There's a fresh, potentially short-tenured face on Spokane City Council. Last week, council members voted 5-1 to appoint Ryan Oelrich to fill a vacant council...

Plus, voters will decide on an anti-camping ballot measure; and where we're at with last week's fires.

SPRs Doug Nadvornick reports. There are signs that Covid pandemic life is moving closer to what used to be normal. Dan Barth from Frontier Behavioral Health in Spokane says that became clear to him last weekend at a cafe in Spokane Valley. “There was a group of women, there was five of them sitting on a couch. They were all obviously vaccinated. They didn’t have to wear masks. They were sitting there socializing and they were talking about what they’d been through over the last year and t...