Crime/Public Safety

A Post Falls man held a park vandal at gunpoint Monday morning until police arrived.

A man killed while helping the victim of a carjacking on Sunday was a U.S. Navy veteran and father of three.

Police on Saturday arrested an organizer for Spokane Community Against Racism for alleged actions he took Wednesday during a protest against immigration enforcement.

Crews from the Spokane Valley Fire Department with assistance from Spokane County Fire District 8 responded to a plane crash at Skymeadows Airpark south of Spokane Valley on Sunday.

A 79-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday just east of Colville, the Washington State Patrol reported in a news release.

Eleven people were arrested during the “No Kings” protest that followed Spokane Pride on Saturday night.

Police shot and killed a man in Spokane Valley after he went on a crime spree Sunday morning that included killing a good Samaritan, stealing a family’s vehicle and intentionally hitting a motorcyclist with it, officials said.

Just days after dozens of people were arrested after clashing with law enforcement at an immigration protest in downtown Spokane, area leaders are looking to learn from the incident and prevent similar unrest at others planned for Saturday.

The Washington State Patrol’s Eastern Washington Missing and Exploited Children Task Force has arrested a 34-year-old Spokane man accused of sexually exploiting a minor in Colorado and encouraging her to kill herself .

Spokane County Sheriff’s detectives and the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating the discovery of a dead body found in the Spokane River.

A man was found dead near La Quinta Inn & Suites on Friday morning, according to the Spokane Police Department.

Over the course of 10 hours in Spokane Wednesday, an impromptu display of civil disobedience became a showdown of smoke and hundreds of fleeing protesters, leading to more than 30 arrests outside an ICE facility near Riverfront Park.

It took almost no time for two immigrants to become part of Shelly O’Quinn’s family.

The Spokane Police Department has a number of “less lethal” devices it can use in specific circumstances to subdue individuals and disperse crowds, some of which were deployed during Wednesday’s immigration protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in north Spokane.

Former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart was released from the Spokane County Jail early Thursday morning after he sparked an hourslong immigration protest that grew into about a thousand supporters and ended only after police fired smoke cannisters and the mayor declared a 9:30 p.m. curfew.

Police used smoke cannisters and pepper balls in attempt to dispel the crowds. Former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart was among those arrested

WENATCHEE – Through trees, trails, rocks and mountains, agencies in and out of Chelan County have descended on the area surrounding Blewett Pass in the Cascade Mountains as they try to capture a man suspected of suffocating his three children in a remote campground.

Detectives have charged a 13-year-old boy in connection to a May 17 fire that caused about $50,000 in damage to the JCPenney at the Spokane Valley Mall.

SEATTLE – The search for a former U.S. Army soldier accused of killing his three young daughters outside of Leavenworth more than a week ago intensified Tuesday, spurred on by a tip from a hiking party about a lone hiker ill-prepared for trail and weather conditions who was spotted near the Enchantments alpine area, according to the Chelan County sheriff’s office.