Spokane

“With the start of the school year, we’re asking motorists to be vigilant about safety on our streets,” Mayor Nadine Woodward said in a statement. “Heed the need to watch your speed.”

Harry L. Cohn, candidate for county prosecutor, made good on his promise to name the men who tried to bribe him to go easy on bootleggers and liquor violators.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said the fire was reported near 38000 Miles Creston Road. The fire was reported just after 3:30 p.m., according to dispatchers. 

Deanna Crull, 46, is running against Andrew Biviano, 47, in the nonpartisan election for the seat. District judges serve four-year terms and preside over misdemeanor criminal cases, traffic infractions, small claims issues, protection orders in cases of domestic violence or harassment and therapeutic court proceedings. 

Getting the new and improved COVID-19 booster shot should be easier than when the first vaccines released, Spokane's health officer said Friday.

The symphony had planned to play at 6 p.m. in Pavillion Park. 

A man died Friday night in an East Spokane motorcycle crash and a woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. 

The state Department of Commerce still plans to fund a Catholic Charities Eastern Washington project to purchase and transform the Quality Inn on Sunset Highway into an emergency supportive housing facility.

James Drew Bradley pleaded guilty in May to a single count of attempted enticement of a minor. An adult sex worker went to Spokane Police in August 2019, sharing texts she had with Bradley in which he requested she find him a 12-year-old girl "for 24 hours ... and virgin," offering her $1,000, according to court records. 

The summer heat has kept the Deer Park Library closed to the public for the last month as the Spokane County Library District waits for the part they need to make repairs to the air conditioning system.

Months in the making, the city of Spokane’s new homeless shelter on East Trent Avenue is set to open Tuesday.

Our poor tomatoes!

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers defended her recent votes in Congress on issues of drug pricing, benefits for veterans and contraception access in a Spokane town hall Wednesday, while questioning the "unprecedented" decision by the Justice Department to search the property of former President Donald Trump. 

Temperatures may have been slow to warm up this summer, but once it got hot, it stayed hot.

Backlash against plans to transform a Sunset Highway hotel into emergency housing has a few Spokane City Council members interested in reopening talks about how to spend state funding on efforts to relocate people out of an east Spokane tent city.

Representatives for Amelia Clark and the state Board of Health signed an agreement Aug. 16 that prevents Clark from ever serving in the position again. Clark faced multiple complaints alleging she violated state law by dismissing Bob Lutz in October 2020, with an independent investigator later finding evidence she had acted without the approval of the local health board as required by statute. 

A Tuesday brush fire burned roughly an acre of hillside that lies between Browne's Addition's western edge and the BNSF railroad tracks that run parallel to Latah Creek south of Interstate 90. 

As the jury deliberated his fate, a former Spokane police officer on trial for rape posted his thoughts on social media Tuesday about the two women who accused him of sexually assaulting them.

The chime of a replica Titanic bell beckons from above as you enter the Windfall Thrift Store. Nestled in the heart of a bustling South Perry District, this whimsical secondhand shop has been enriching lives and assisting locals in the neighborhood for more than 60 years, with a history as colorful and endearing as that of the area surrounding it.