Take your children golfing for free at one of Spokane County's golf courses.

The county is offering free junior rounds of golf (with the purchase of one adult/senior round) for the following:

Liberty Lake July11-14

Hangman Valley July18-21

Spokane leads over Seattle and Portland in at least one statistic. Unfortunately, it' s cities with the most skin cancer. Our average clear summer days adds up to about 38 days per year which gives us enough time to develop on average 2.8 deaths from melanoma and 22.7 incidents of melanoma. We ranked number 10 out of 20 different cities in a list prepared by The Daily Beast.

Press Release - Efforts to promote a college-going culture are paying off. Information from The BERC Group’s College Tracking Data Services shows that the number of SPS students going to either a two-year or four-year college in the year after graduating from high school has increased by about 12 percent since 2004. The most recent data, for the class of 2009, shows that 64.2 percent attended college right after graduation. Throughout the state of Washington, 59.4 percent of the class of 2009 went directly on to college.