Spokane has been named a finalist in Outside Magazine's Best Town 2013 contest. Voting begins today for Spokanites to tell the magazine why our city is the best for easy living.

Every year the magazine holds the contest offering up different titles for cities around the country to be the best destination for. Last year, Outside readers voted Richmond, VA the most livable river town.

This year, Spokane is competing with cities that include San Diego, Boston, Park City and Bozeman to see which city is the best for an easy and active lifestyle.

“We're not choosing the winner based on the number of votes, but more by the passion shown by the voters for their town,” said Jonah Ogles, an associate editor for Outside Magazine, “We just want to find out why people love Spokane and what makes it a great, healthy city.”

With the Powerball jackpot reaching an all time high, people are rushing to buy tickets in hopes of becoming the next millionaire.

Friday night, the Powerball jackpot reached $600 million. After taxes, you'd walk away with a cool $376 million; enough to fund your biggest and wildest dreams.

"Well, I would not work anymore, that would be the first thing, buy houses for everyone I know maybe open a bar," Anthony Burgess said.

Burgess bought several tickets at a downtown gas station Friday afternoon. Even though the odds of winning aren't good, Burgess remained hopeful.

Our region is lucky when it comes to big jackpots. In 2011, an Ephrata couple and a Rathdrum mom split a $380 Mega Millions jackpot. In that jackpot, the Ephrata couple choose their own numbers based of their birthdays.

The drawing for the Powerball is Saturday at 8 p.m.

A farmer's market for medical marijuana will not be opening in Spokane Valley after a letter from US Attorney Michael Ormsby caused the owners to cancel their plans.

The market would have brought growers and patients together just like they were selling fresh vegetables except it would have been marijuana to card holding patients. Supporters call it the best way to keep the cost of their medicine down.

"They actually had to remove the back of my skull. So just laying in bed, laying on the pillow when I wake up, I'm in horrible pain," said David VanScyoc.

VanScyoc uses marijuana for his pain. When he was young he was seriously burned in a gas explosion. He said dispensaries drive up prices, but a farmers market would help him and others get cheaper medicine.

"Instead of selling, the growers selling to the dispensary and the dispensary selling to the patient and everybody marking it up along the way we can do one price," said VanScyoc.