Fall sports underway despite smoky start

COLFAX - The fall sports season has begun, but challenges are already cropping up that have changed some practice times for teams.

The smoke from wildfire fires in Spokane and Whitman Counties has made it difficult area football teams to practice outdoors.

And with limited gymnasium space available for multiple teams to practice at each school, schedule adjustments have been made.

In Tekoa-Rosalia, practices for the week had been moved indoors for all sports.

Middle and high school football and cross country, middle school girls basketball and high school girls volleyball were all adjusting, w...