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Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria & Café ends brunch service due to popularity

Wed., May 22, 2019

“Allie’s brunch has been popular and we have loved being able to offer a delicious vegan breakfast on the weekend. So it is with more than a little sadness that we are announcing that our last brunch will be offered Sunday, May 19. This will allow us to better use our resources to serve you.”

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Officials asking for help identifying man who died bicycling on Mica Peak

UPDATED: Tue., May 21, 2019

A man bicycling on Mica Peak Conservation Area was found unresponsive on Sunday and later died, and officials are asking for help identifying him.

News > Spokane

Investigators await toxicology results to help solve death of Dr. Rex Porter

Tue., May 21, 2019

Spokane County Sheriff’s detectives are awaiting toxicology results as they investigate the suspicious death of a Spokane doctor whose body was found dismembered and burned outside his Dishman Hills-area home in early April.

News > Spokane

Bill Gates brings message of hope for total eradication of polio to Rotary International conference in Spokane

UPDATED: Thu., May 23, 2019

A goal that seemed nearly impossible just decades ago is now within reach: total eradication of polio.

News > Spokane

Nicole Chung finds new territory in adoption stories told through her own eyes as the adoptee

Wed., May 15, 2019

Nicole Chung asked her adoptive mother an important question when she was a child: “Mama, am I real Korean?”

News > Crime/Public Safety

Driver suspected of crashing into Spokane’s CFO, calls Uber to flee scene

UPDATED: Wed., May 15, 2019

A Spokane woman is suspected of colliding with a car driven by the city’s chief financial officer last month, but after exchanging her information called an Uber to flee before police arrived.

News > Spokane

Man found dead in Browne’s Addition not killed, police spokesman says

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2019

A man was found dead in his Browne’s Addition apartment last weekend and covered in blankets with the heat running on high, leading detectives to initially believe there could be foul play.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Man trapped in ditch by mini excavator on South Hill suffers broken arm

Sat., May 11, 2019

Firefighters rescued a man after he was pinned in a ditch by a mini excavator he was operating in the backyard of a South Hill house on Saturday.

News > Spokane

Music, pompoms and banners fill downtown sky as the Junior Lilac Parade makes 68th return

UPDATED: Sat., May 11, 2019

Dustin Peterson Sr. sprinted to three spots along the Junior Lilac Parade route Saturday to catch a glimpse of his son, playing the trombone in the Chase Middle School band, march past him as many times as possible.

News > Spokane

Despite slow start from cold spring, area farmers markets kick off season

UPDATED: Sat., May 11, 2019

In a weedy field near the downtown core, Tim Pellow set up his vegetable stand for the year’s first Spokane Farmers’ Market. “It’s going to be a slow start with vendors,” he said, standing behind the register. “The crops are a little late this year. It’s been a pretty cold spring.”

News > Spokane

Despite her own setbacks, Judith Mayotte ‘fuels and energizes’ those around her through refugee, climate change advocacy

Sat., May 11, 2019

Judith Mayotte re-learned to walk after contracting polio, but then during a freak accident while working in Sudan, lost her leg. Now, the Gonzaga University graduate school commencement speaker, is inspiring others to move past their own setbacks in life to help those suffering far greater.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Police find abandoned truck belonging to man killed in drive-by shooting

UPDATED: Thu., May 9, 2019

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News > Crime/Public Safety

Police searching for Colville Chevron armed robbery suspect

UPDATED: Thu., May 9, 2019

Colville Police are searching for the suspect in an armed robbery at a Colville Chevron on Tuesday night.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Excavator stolen over the weekend from Newport

UPDATED: Wed., May 8, 2019

Detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating a stolen excavator from Newport.

News > Spokane

Sheriff’s office releases name of deputy who shot homeless man

UPDATED: Wed., May 8, 2019

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office identified a deputy who shot and killed a homeless man May 4 during a confrontation in Spokane Valley.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Man charged with attempted murder, first-degree arson for allegedly setting girlfriend’s house on fire

UPDATED: Wed., May 8, 2019

A man suspected of setting multiple fires at his girlfriend’s home while she was still inside has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree arson.

News > Spokane

Close to his heart: Almost two years after surgery, Steve Lee is ready to jog Bloomsday

Sun., May 5, 2019

It was during a 2017 trip to Butte, a month after he ran the 2017 Bloomsday for the 38th time, that Steve Lee felt off.

News > Spokane

Sheridan Elementary builds new community garden to help grow students’ skills, and hopefully, enjoy a fresh snack too

Sat., May 4, 2019

Wearing white garden gloves too big for his hands, 9-year-old Taden Eirdam shoveled dirt from the Sheridan Elementary parking lot into a wheelbarrow, headed for a garden.

News > Spokane

Three Spokane County Jail inmates found unconscious in dormitory, treated for overdoses

UPDATED: Fri., May 3, 2019

Three women in Spokane County Jail were treated for drug overdoses on Thursday and Friday after they had taken an “unknown powdery substance” that was smuggled into the jail.

News > Spokane

After spearheading new livestock class, East Valley student enters the competition arena

UPDATED: Thu., May 2, 2019

Dakota Hanson grabbed Timmy the goat by his short leash and placed his head on her thigh.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Rogers High School locked down for picture of gun; no threat determined

UPDATED: Wed., May 1, 2019

Rogers High School went into a brief lockdown Wednesday following reports of a social media post showing a student holding a gun.

News > Spokane

Spokane’s May Day March takes stand against local agencies working with border patrol

UPDATED: Wed., May 1, 2019

A group of protesters gathered Wednesday in Riverfront Park is calling on Spokane County officials to stop working with border patrol agents.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Firefighters respond again to massive fire at glass company in east Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., May 1, 2019

A massive fire erupted for the second time in less than two years early Wednesday at the former Tormino’s Sash and Glass in east Spokane.

News > Spokane

“The toughest guy I’d ever met”: Pearl Harbor survivor Ray Garland’s memorial shares stories of a life fully lived

Sat., April 27, 2019

Pastor Bill Hemenway said that when one looks over the first few chapters in Ray Garland’s life, “it’s more than most people get to live” in a lifetime.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Medical Examiner confirms Amber Alert suspect died from self-inflicted gunshot wound during SWAT standoff

Fri., April 26, 2019

The Whitman County Medical Examiner on Friday confirmed that Justin P. Robertson,

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