Alaska Airlines announced Thursday that it's adding two new daily flights from Spokane to Seattle and Boise.  The service begins daily starting January 8, 2012.

The announcement comes just days after Southwest Airlines announced it would discontinue its service between Spokane and Seattle starting in January.

Alaska Airlines representatives said they were excited to expand service in the Pacific Northwest.

Washington State University researchers have been awarded a $450,000 dollar grant to study how a poor diet might genetically change human heart function and contribute to cardiovascular disease.

WSU researcher Susan Marsh has already discovered in preliminary experiments that a diet high in sugar and saturated fat altered the attachment of sugars to proteins in the muscle cells of the heart.

Marsh is an assistant professor in the Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Program in the College of Pharmacy.

You've heard of "First Friday," well, we are having Last Friday, a Block Partie that starts at noon until 9pm on July 29th.  What you'll need to do is start at the Chill Spot on Monroe Street and you'll end up at the Tinman Gallery on Garland.  There will be sidewalk sales to hot dogs during this fun event for everyone.  Participants along the way are Gallery of THUM, Fabulous Finds, Tinman Gallery, Destiny Floral, Chill Spot, Bag Lady, Cruzin' Back in Time, Simply Chictiques (upstairs in Fabulous Finds), Artemis, The Drinkery, Paint In My Hai