Spokane

As of Wednesday afternoon, Facebook appears to have removed the scam account that attempted to collect credit card numbers in exchange for free fair tickets. 

A Spokane man hated his ex-wife and decided to kill her when she came to pick up their children in the summer of 2020, prosecutors said Wednesday during their opening statement of his murder trial.

Two longtime affordable housing providers in Spokane have combined forces.

Temperatures dipped to 4 degrees Wednesday morning at the Spokane International Airport, the coldest reading in February this year.

Donn Thompson’s grandfather, Robert Thompson, wasn’t impressed when he first saw his grandson in 1923.

Parishioners at the Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in downtown Spokane have been faithfully raising money for years to build a shrine to St. Peregrine, the patron saint of people with cancer. Though there’s still money left to raise, organizers hope the shrine will be complete in time for St. Peregrine’s feast day on May 1.

The idea for Richard Peterschick’s pandemic project struck him like a bolt out of the blue.

All Lee Williams ever wanted to be was a preschool teacher, but she didn’t keep the job long. Her desire to help children learn led her to a lengthy career with organizations like Child Care Aware and the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. Her dedication to children has earned her the 2022 YWCA Women of Achievement Award for Education.

Liberty Lake artist and Selkirk Middle School seventh-grader Sindhu Surapaneni has come up with a way to connect Valentine’s Day and Black History Month with her newest painting titled “Everyone is Loved.”

Spokane's Ukrainian residents don't all see eye-to-eye on the issue. Inna Mayorov doesn’t want to take sides. The Ukrainian-American owner of Yummy Snamy European Food and Deli interacts with Spokane Slavs at her store every day, and lately that means hearing conversations about the escalating Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Police arrested a 24-year-old man who they say was involved in multiple hit-and-run collisions in a stolen vehicle Tuesday morning.

A nascent plan for a temporary homeless shelter in Hillyard was abandoned by Mayor Nadine Woodward on Monday amid fierce and rapid neighborhood opposition.

Bright colors and fluffy tutus dotted the hallways of Spokane Public Montessori for a very special “Tutu Twosday” this week.

Daniel Ramos III was hoping the city could lure up to 100 volunteers to participate in this year’s tally of the region’s homeless population.

Amid dangerously cold temperatures, the city of Spokane is doubling the number of hotel rooms it offers to the homeless.

A bill making its way through the Legislature would require the department to lease that land back to the community, which can use it for affordable housing, new businesses or parks. Another proposal would build a pedestrian land bridge over I-90 near Liberty Park as a way to reconnect the neighborhood. 

The Spokane County commissioners on Tuesday gave Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich permission to find a third-party organization to manage a criminal justice reform program.

Gov. Jay Inslee doesn’t believe forest fires or oceanic issues are the biggest threats Washington faces from climate change.

Winter isn’t over, and neither is the need for emergency homeless shelter.