Local Government

Two red -light cameras are coming to the intersection of Mission Avenue and Greene Street, the city’s most accident-prone intersection .

Residents in some of the fastest growing and most wildfire-vulnerable areas of Spokane County will soon have the opportunity to weigh in on the county’s plans for the future.

As much as $48 million in federal grants slated to come to Spokane for various projects remains held up amid confusion over President Donald Trump’s funding freeze put into place last week by executive order, including $6 million the city had started to spend planting trees, Mayor Lisa Brown confirmed Monday.

WASHINGTON – Since the end of World War II, the United States has remained a global power through foreign policy defined by what retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker calls a “three-legged stool” of defense, diplomacy and development.

All of Spokane’s residential streets will get plowed, the city of Spokane announced Thursday, after four days of snow piled 6 inches or more around Spokane.

Large events being held in Spokane this year will no longer be expected to pay significantly raised prices to the city to cover the costs of police, fire and other services, after Mayor Lisa Brown issued an executive order pausing the cost increase.

The Spokane Valley City Council voted to sue one of its own members this week in the continuing drama over the actions of City Councilman Al Merkel.

For just a few bucks, Spokane residents can pop into many local convenience stores and purchase something that looks like a crack pipe – and that very well may quack like a crack pipe – but that retailers will swear is an oil burner or made for tobacco.

Spokane will ask downtown convenience stores to voluntarily remove single-serving alcoholic beverages from their stores and stop selling any alcohol after midnight, citing chronic littering, accompanying drug use and violent crime in the area.

State Rep. Mike Volz is soon to hold two public offices concurrently.

Betty McDonald, 81, hardly recognizes her hometown anymore.

The process to remove the controversial statue of Ensign John Monaghan from downtown Spokane has quietly and slowly been progressing in the past year after local legislation was approved formalizing a process for reviewing potentially offensive landmarks and street names.

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown disagrees with efforts to sell the naming rights to the U.S. Pavilion, one of the city’s most notable monuments, to an as-of-yet-unnamed corporate sponsor, she expressed to the independent Spokane Park Board in a Tuesday letter.

WASHINGTON – A year after the Inland Northwest became the testing ground for a new computer system that promised to revolutionize veterans’ health care, leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs had received grave warnings from staff at Spokane’s VA hospital and evidence that flaws in the software had contributed to serious patient harm.

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown on Thursday justified a push by two political allies in Olympia to claw back tax dollars from the regional 911 dispatch operator that two weeks ago booted the city of Spokane from its coalition.

Two more small-capacity shelters have been added to the city of Spokane’s homeless service system, including one focused on families with children and another for people actively trying to recover from addiction.

A nearly four-year legal battle is coming to a close after the Spokane Valley City Council approved a settlement agreement Tuesday with the contractors who built the suburb’s defective City Hall.