Crime/Public Safety

A Rathdrum man died after crashing his motorcycle Saturday near Cusick, Washington.

A bonfire got out of control and engulfed a building in flames in rural Cheney on Saturday afternoon.

The trial of three protesters accused of conspiring against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a summer protest in Spokane was riddled with unexpected and explicit up s and downs Friday.

The armed man who struggled with Spokane police before an officer shot and killed him Thursday morning in the Logan Neighborhood has been identified.

A Spokane U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who pushed and shoved people during a protest last June was called to the witness stand for a second time Friday, this time to explain social media posts calling Black people “ghetto garbage” and transgender people “mentally ill.”

A 38-year-old Coeur d’Alene man died after he drove off westbound Interstate 90 and struck an overpass early Friday morning in Liberty Lake.

When Spokane police officers arrived at a mass protest at the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on June 11, their tactics appeared far different than the tactics of the federal agents who interacted with that crowd before them.

An 83-year-old convicted rapist, kidnapper and murderer did not make parole once again and will spend an additional 15 years in prison.

A 42-year-old Spokane man who was hit and killed riding a bicycle last week in Whitman County has been identified as Glenn George, according to Washington State Patrol.

A boy shot a man in the chest after intervening in a domestic dispute between the man and a woman Wednesday night near Spirit Lake.

Investigators are trying to identify human remains found last week in the Swanson Lakes Wildlife Area north of Spokane.

Spokane police shot and killed an armed man during a struggle early Thursday morning after responding to a domestic violence call involving the man, his wife and two young children in the Logan Neighborhood, Spokane Assistant Police Chief Matthew Cowles said.

On the day of June 11, masked federal agents who worked in Spokane’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office hastily walked around a parking lot, tore a banner out of someone’s hand and met a crowd at the lot’s gate.

Leslie Paine was sitting with her husband, Joshua Paine, as they watched the news and finished their coffee the morning of May 23, 2024. She kissed him goodbye for work as she did on most weekdays for the past 24 years.

A Spokane County Superior Court Judge on Wednesday removed two public defenders from a murder case plagued by a series of delays, meaning the legal proceeding will continue to linger despite the passage of more than two years since the killing in question.  

A 28-year veteran of the Post Falls Police Department will serve as its next chief after seven months without a permanent fixture at the position.

Authorities arrested a suspect who fired shots at Boundary County Sheriff's Office deputies investigating a domestic violence incident early Wednesday morning, according to a sheriff's office news release.

The actions of three protesters on trial this week in Spokane were chaotic in the minds of their defense attorneys. But prosecutors believe their tactics amounted to a conspiracy.