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Genres: Local News , Locally Produced , Public Affairs , talk show

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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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RANGE Media is a worker-owned newsroom that covers local stories in Spokane and across the Inland Northwest. 

 

Tune in on Thursdays for round-ups on recent local news, team-wide banter and deeper dives on important stories with the journalists who broke them.

 

All of that — and more! — Thursdays from 3 to 4 pm on KYRS Thin Air.

 

To learn more about RANGE and the work we do, click here! And if you want to support our work, click here.

If you have questions about your local government, unsure who to complain about an issue in your neighborhood, wondering which agency governs certain things, or curious why something is happening or how much it costs, let us know! Email us at freerange@kyrs.org with your questions, and we’ll try and answer them each week!

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2026-04-16 Free RANGE
On this week’s episode, Val and Aaron Hedge were joined by Kate Peterson and Mackenize Draper from the Get Lit festival! The four of them talked about what goes into the festival, its impact on our region, and the ways it’s building up our communities. […]
2026-04-09 Free RANGE
On this week’s episode, Aaron Hedge was joined by Debbie Novak, an activist with the Washington State Coalition for Police Accountability. They talked about the Law Enforcement Leaders’ Bill (SB 5974), what it does, and the lawsuit by four Eastern Washington sheriffs – including Sheriff John Nowels of Spokane County – that opposes the bill. […] […]
2026-04-02 Free RANGE
Erin, Luke, and Daisy went on the air for this week’s episode! They talked about ethics in journalism, their reporting processes, the months-long, complicated nature of recent investigative reporting, and more. […]
2026-03-26 Free RANGE
On this week’s episode, Val and Aaron went on the air to catch you up on local news (and this week’s CIVICS)!   They also talked about PFAS clean-up updates, reopening the STA double decker bus crash investigation, and the March 20th memorial for Otto Zehm, who was killed by police 20 years ago. […]
2026-03-19 Free RANGE
On this week’s episode, Erin Sellers and Daniel Walters went on the air to talk about Daniel’s most recent article: John Stockton’s Not Dead.   Daniel’s article title is a play on the clickbait “news headlines” from fake AI fan pages that have recently appeared on Facebook. More specifically, it’s a reference to a fake […] […]
2026-03-12 Free RANGE
We had a two-hour special show this week for the KYRS Spring Fund Drive, led by Erin and Pascal!   During the first hour, Aaron Hedge and Daniel Walters joined to talk about their reporting processes. Daniel told a story about an interesting letter he found and how that led to him doing some journalistic […] […]
2026-03-05 Free RANGE
On this week’s show, Aaron and Daniel interviewed investigative journalist Michael Edison Hayden. The three of them talked about far-right extremism in Idaho, how the new strain of Kootenai County white nationalism differs from the Aryan Nations of the past, and the big fracture points within the North Idaho fringe. […]
2026-02-26 Free RANGE
Pascal joined Hedge and Val on the radio this week!   The three of them talked about some recent news:   The first was about an item on the East Valley School District’s Board of Directors agenda, which was included in our February 23rd CIVICS. They held a first reading of a revised board policy […] […]
2026-02-19 Free RANGE
Reporter Daisy Zavala Magaña and freelance reporter Daniel Walters were welcomed by Aaron for this week’s episode! They talked about their hopes, goals, and values in journalism, plus previous stories they’ve covered. […]
2026-02-12 Free RANGE
This week’s episode is all about the Housing and Homeless Advocacy Day, or “HHAD” for short.   HHAD is organized by the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance (WLIHA) and the Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund. They bring people across Washington state to Olympia to advocate for housing justice by meeting with their district’s representatives.   […] […]

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