Crime/Public Safety

A possible explosion was averted Thursday at the north transfer station after someone drove into the recycling center with materials that emitted a white gas.

Spokane police arrested one man in the Audubon Neighborhood following an early morning shooting, according to a department news release.

A 15-year-old Northport High School student drowned in the ocean at Long Beach over the weekend, a GoFundMe from his family says.

Cheney and Three Springs high schools were evacuated Wednesday afternoon following an anonymous bomb threat, Cheney Public Schools said in a message to parents and staff.

KENNEWICK – A 34-year-old man was arrested early Tuesday when he reportedly freaked out and began running into traffic at a busy Kennewick intersection and then broke into a closed Burger King.

A Grant County man died early Tuesday near the town of Mattawa in a single-car crash that also injured his passenger, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Laura Ackerman walked along the South Hill bluff on Tuesday trying to get a sense of Sunday’s spot fires that rattled residents and firefighters who have worried for years about the danger of a wildfire there.

On New Year’s Day, the Payette Police Department arrested a man over allegations that he brought a pipe bomb onto a train car, prompting the involvement of the FBI. Months later, the criminal case against the Payette man ended without any charges related to the explosive. Brent Sharrai, 41, accepted a plea deal with the Payette County Prosecutor’s Office, agreeing to plead guilty to a ...

In 2020, 11 men were arrested in connection with a mother sex trafficking her then-14-year-old daughter for drug money.

Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers have joined an animal abuse investigation that began when a neighbor reported a foul odor coming from an apartment in Walla Walla County. The neighbor reported to police May 18 that she had not seen anyone at the apartment on the 200 block of North College Avenue in College Place, a few miles from Walla Walla, for almost two months. She ...

Two residents were rescued from a burning lower South Hill apartment Thursday afternoon, according to a Spokane Fire Department news release.

Two Spokane police officers will not face criminal charges after they shot and killed an intoxicated suicidal man who walked toward officers with a knife last year in downtown Spokane.

A 40-year-old man whose bomb threat aboard a Seattle-bound flight forced the plane to land at the Spokane International Airport was sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Eastern Washington.

Violence is no stranger to Spokane’s homeless population.

A 22-year-old who beat a sleeping homeless man to death with a large rock nearly four years ago in downtown Spokane was sentenced Thursday to more than 10 years in prison.

A 33-year-old man already convicted of a Spokane Valley murder was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison for running a drug trafficking operation while jailed for the murder charge, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Eastern Washington.

A 24-year-old man stole $326,000 from area Target stores in a counterfeit iPad fraud scheme in which he’d swap real devices for fakes and then return them to stores in Eastern Washington.

Eight people, including two children, were displaced Monday following an apartment fire in the Hillyard neighborhood.