Today’s headlines:
- National Weather Service issues red flag warnings for much of eastern and central Washington.
- Kootenai County’s coroner is pushing the north Idaho county to consider a total ban on kratom sales.
- Idaho once again has one of the lowest SNAP payment error rates in the country, while Washington could soon be penalized for its rate.
- Washington State University is using basketball to get tribal youth interested in health sciences careers.
- Gonzaga kinesiology lecturer David Smith travels to Spain to compete at the Gay Games, the world’s largest LGBTQ sporting event.
- One of Spokane’s arterial bridges, the Maple Street bridge, will reopen to cars tonight at 8 pm. But from 4 to 6 this afternoon, people are welcome to walk, bike, or roll on the new pavement in a special pedestrian-centric moment.
- The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights celebrates its 30th anniversary and remembers its namesake Bill Wassmuth, a late Coeur d’Alene priest who confronted the Aryan Nations Church.
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Reporting was contributed by Owen Henderson, Eliza Billingham and Doug Nadvornick. …