The 5-4 decision is likely to prompt state legislators to rewrite the drug possession law. The majority found that it improperly allowed a conviction even if the person prosecuted under the statute did not know they possessed drugs. 

A winter storm made for slippery roads in the Inland Northwest during Thursday’s morning commute.

In 2021 so far Spokane police have responded to triple the number of shootings recorded in the same nearly two-month period in 2020, 2019 or 2018, according to data provided by the Spokane Police Department.

Pullman police are recommending misdemeanor charges for seven fraternity members involved in the heavy drinking that led to a 19-year-old Washington State University student’s death by alcohol poisoning.

The judgment was handed down after a two-week virtual trial held in King County. The compensation will go to the members of Bernice Kekona's estate, who brought the legal action in December 2017 alleging the airline did not meet its duty under federal law to provide a gate-to-gate escort for Kekona on a trip back to Spokane from Hawaii. 

Police are investigating the apparently violent death of a woman who had just won a large jackpot and had been struggling to get a man to leave her alone, according to court documents.