Spokane

NaphCare, a private contractor that operates in dozens of prisons and jails throughout the country, will hire additional employees for an annual cost increase of $354,000. 

Spokane County Fire District 8 is asking voters to renew a maintenance and operations levy on the February ballot to continue their level of service and make improvements to stations and equipment.

A year ago, grant funding for the criminal justice reform effort appeared to be in jeopardy, but it's finally happening. 

When Joe Harrington took a job at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Eastern Washington in September 1990, he figured he'd get some trial experience under his belt and then move on to private practice.

Earlier this month, a crew from Spirit Pruners began felling ponderosa pines in Downriver Golf Course. The trees had shown signs of infestation of two types of pine beetle that state entomologists say are attacking more and more of Washington's conifers as the climate gets hotter and drier. 

Mayor Nadine Woodward has said the city has enough room to house all of Camp Hope's residents. The Department of Transportation has disagreed. 

For many, the route for closing Spokane’s Camp Hope homeless encampment has long seemed clear.

A 31-year-old man who killed his friend at a Spokane Valley bar and injured three others in 2021 was sentenced to 23 years in prison Friday.

It’s time for a winter catch up. I’ll start with an update on my hydroponic experiment.

Rosalie Hembroff remembers the first time she played Bingo.

OLYMPIA – The city of Spokane may soon have to pay Washington to comply with a new state program aimed at cutting greenhouse gases because of the city’s trash incinerator.

It's not every day you see an elected official in a public meeting give a half-hour presentation bashing a volunteer member of the Spokane Airport Board. 

Residents living on the road just above Underhill Park on the South Hill say they've spent the past several years lobbying City Hall to slow down speeders before tragedy strikes. The city has responded with data that neighbors reject as incomplete or inaccurate, and lawmakers acknowledge that the process prioritizing work to calm traffic has left the concerned residents with no good answers. 

"My wife and I have had very different shifts," Jensen said. "We didn't have as much quality time as we needed. I needed to make a change to be the best husband and father possible."

“The Chinese New Year is just a memory to us,” Tai Gee told a reporter. “We are Americanizing ourselves. We are celebrating the American New Year now.”

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich left office at the end of December after 16 years as the chief law enforcement officer in Spokane County. He left many accomplishments, admirers and public opponents in his wake. 

Once again, the future of the former East Central library is up in the air.Whatever decision is reached, the restarting of the at-times controversial deliberation also spells uncertainty for the Spokane Police Department’s south precinct, which was housed in the former library last summer.

Transitioning from three to five commissioners won't be free for taxpayers. 

The 50th anniversary of Spokane’s Expo ’74 is just 16 months away, and there are big plans to improve infrastructure around Riverfront Park.