Chad Sokol

Spokane County officials say a recent water-rights decision by the state Supreme Court will have “dramatic impacts” on property owners looking for building permits in rural areas.

Either way voters choose, the candidate who replaces Spokane County Commissioner Nancy McLaughlin will bring a markedly different political ideology.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an Oct. 8 assault that critically injured another man at an apartment complex near Eastern Washington University.

With some tension still looming over the Spokane Police Department, city officials want to hire a consultant to facilitate “a formal process for reconciliation” with the community.

A woman remains hospitalized more than a week after she was found brutally beaten outside a burning trailer in north Spokane, and her family hopes the suspect will be charged with attempted murder.

Officials from Washington State University and the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport are still toiling away in negotiations over a major runway expansion, a project that could jeopardize millions of dollars in agriculture and animal-disease research.

Kootenai County authorities are searching for a hunter who has been missing since Monday afternoon.

A SWAT team escorted several women from a South Hill home before leading a man out in handcuffs Tuesday afternoon, but authorities declined to say what crimes may have brought them there.

The city of Spokane spent nearly $29,000 on its yearlong search for a new police chief, according to public records compiled by The Spokesman-Review.

A high-level sex offender has been released from a state prison and now lives two blocks from Lewis and Clark High School.

From the pews in the back of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, the pastor’s voice sounded a bit muffled – drowned out by a chorus of panting dogs.

The two candidates vying to replace Spokane County Commissioner Nancy McLaughlin squared off in a debate Thursday afternoon at the Spokane Club.

The Coeur d’Alene Tribe has invented an exercise dance called Powwow Sweat, and the tribe says it’s “sweeping the nation.” At the very least, it has attracted some high-profile practitioners on the other side of the country.

A Waste Management truck hit a rail bridge in downtown Spokane early Wednesday, and workers spent several hours preparing to unwedge it.

If the name John Birch sounds familiar, it’s probably because of the John Birch Society, a far-right group founded more than a decade after his death in 1945. Less has been written about the man himself: a missionary-turned-spy who built a formidable intelligence network in China during World War II. An ardent Baptist from an early age, Birch traveled to Japanese-occupied China to serve as a missionary in 1940. Two years later, he assisted an U.S. Army flight crew that had bailed from a plane while returning to the mainland from a raid on Tokyo. The Army made him an intelligence officer, and he later worked for the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA.

One of Spokane’s most notorious murderers is again headed to the state Supreme Court, but it’s unlikely he’ll ever be a free man.