Spokane

When immigrants and refugees arrive in Spokane, often they can struggle to make connections in their new community. This can be especially true for young people, who find themselves in a school system they don’t understand, speaking a language that is foreign to them.

Washington voters face elections every November but most years that follow a presidential election produce the calmest, least controversial campaigns. 2021 is not such a year.

School board races in Spokane County this year are drawing plenty of interest – and money.

The Department of Corrections say operations will continue mostly as normal, even with potentially hundreds of employees losing their jobs for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. 

The Spokane County Redistricting Commission temporarily hit a wall last week at an unexpected spot in the road to 2022. They could’ve avoided that by taking a page from Spokane’s history.

Dozens of statues associated with racial injustice have been removed from public spaces across the country since last year, and some people hope a controversial one in downtown Spokane is next.

One person is dead after a shooting in downtown Spokane early Saturday morning, and police say they’re investigating two other gunshot incidents that happened just hours earlier.

Instead of being excited about turning 6 on Oct. 28, Elje Mwejenwa, a child from the Marshall Islands, was in pain.

Former White House official and presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson lamented what he saw as challenges to America’s youth during the pandemic in a speech Friday night in Spokane.

Several hundred people took to Spokane City Hall and then the downtown streets Friday in a stand against Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate and alleged government overreach.

The first of two community COVID-19 testing sites will open Monday at Spokane Falls Community College.

The final map — which the committee hasn't formally voted on yet — creates two Republican districts, two Democratic districts and a swing district that has leaned Republican by 5.5 percentage points in recent elections. 

No employees at Spokane Public Schools will lose their jobs due to the statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Outside staffing help has begun to arrive in Spokane County after a long wait and an ongoing fifth wave of COVID-19 sent case rates soaring this fall.

A dead person was found Thursday evening on a sidewalk in the area of Browne Street and Pacific Avenue in downtown Spokane.

The COVID-19 pandemic is retreating from local schools.

Helmut Ewe Borchert pleaded guilty in July to a single count of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Spokane police, acting on a tip from an informant, searched Borchert's home in December 2019 and found more than 18 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as a gun, according to court records. 

Two more residents at the Spokane Veterans Home tested positive for COVID-19 this week.