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The agreement was presented to U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Bastian by an attorney representing three of the residents at the encampment that has become the flashpoint for the housing and homelessness discussion in Spokane. It essentially eliminates the dangling threat of an imminent camp sweep, said Jeffry Finer, the attorney representing the residents. 

Reporting a sexual assault or other violent crime is terrifying, and that’s just the start.

Horizon, which was acquired by Alaska Airlines in 1986, estimates it's carried more than 50 million Pacific Northwest commuters on the plane since its introduction in January 2001.  Thursday marked exactly 22 years since the Q400 came into service, said Joe Sprague, the president of the airline. 

A rum-runner – make that, rum-flyer – ran out of gas 4 miles south of Colville and was forced to make an emergency landing in a field.

Wintertime is for garden planning. The seed catalogs are brimming with enticing opportunities for experimentation and now that I am semi-retired, I have the time for garden construction projects that have been calling to me. So here is the first shot at my garden plans otherwise known as dreams for the year.

An abiding interest in history and geography, and a touch of admitted eccentricity led to an interesting addition to Charles Brondos’ stamp collection – a postmark collection. Not just any postmark collection, but a very specific one.

A downtown Spokane restaurant chef was named among the best in the Northwest by the James Beard Foundation.

Airport board appointments aren't typically high-profile, controversial affairs, but this one has been an exception. 

Four years after the county commissioners passed a law requiring unions to bargain in public, the county commissioners had to undo it. 

The Spokane City Council has signaled its intent to purchase the former trucking warehouse on East Trent Avenue that now serves as the region’s largest homeless shelter, despite resistance from the mayor and concerns over fiscal sustainability.

The county filed the suit in November seeking a judge’s blessing for local law enforcement to clear the homeless encampment.

The former Spokane neonatologist who tried to persuade what he believed were dark web kidnappers and assailants to targets his ex-wife and coworker will spend eight years in federal prison and pay a $100,000 fine for his crimes, a judge ruled Tuesday. 

When police officers swarmed into Lewis and Clark High School’s cafeteria last month with their guns drawn, Principal Ivan Corley had no idea why they were there.

Christopher Wright, a former attorney who previously served as Spokane Park Board President and who is also Stratton’s husband, was appointed Monday night as policy adviser by a vote of 4 to 2. Stratton abstained herself from the vote.

First responders and school officials at a meeting Monday addressed concerns about the response to last month’s hoax school shooting call to Lewis and Clark High School.

When the Spokane City Council voted in early December to defer a vote on a controversial package of rental reforms, its members insisted the yearslong debate would finally come to a close on Jan. 23.

Charges were dropped late last month against the 57-year-old woman who crashed a golf cart last summer near Priest Lake killing a Spokane police officer and injuring three others.