Chad Sokol

More than 80 acres of steep terrain in Lincoln County were still ablaze Thursday evening, but crews say they have the so-called Flatlanders Fire under control.

A homeless woman told Spokane police she was drugged and repeatedly raped while being held for several days in a storage unit in the Chief Garry Park neighborhood.

An 11-year-old boy was killed and a 1-year-old boy seriously injured in a head-on car crash Wednesday afternoon near Royal City, the Granty County Sheriff’s Office reported. Josue L. Amenta of Quincy was pronounced dead at the scene. The baby suffered head injuries and was flown to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland and then to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was listed in stable condition Thursday morning.

A man in his 20s is expected to survive after being shot in the abdomen early Thursday morning in a North Spokane neighborhood.

PULLMAN – A former Washington State University honor student arrested for dealing cocaine behind her sorority’s house in February was sentenced to three months in jail Friday morning.

In the wake of car crashes that killed two students during Thanksgiving break, many at Washington State University have called for safety improvements on the two-lane highways that funnel travelers into Pullman.

In the wake of a Sept. 4 firebombing at the Planned Parenthood office building in Pullman, progressive churches have stepped up to support the embattled health care provider.

At least once a day, between classes and study sessions, student Abdul Albarraq smokes a cigarette near the library in the center of the Washington State University campus. He’ll probably have to stop doing that soon.

Washington State University officials have selected a dean and hired more than 40 physicians and scientists to work in the university’s Spokane medical school, which will be named after the university’s late president, Elson Floyd. The university recently announced that Spokane-based physicians have been hired to help develop the first two years of curriculum for medical students. WSU officials believe the program can win initial accreditation next year and begin accepting students in fall 2017.

Washington State University officials have selected a dean and hired more than 40 physicians and scientists to work in the university's Spokane medical school, and the school will be named after late university president Elson Floyd.

PULLMAN – Three Washington State University instructors are being accused of violating students’ First Amendment rights by banning terms such as “illegal alien,” “male” and “female” in the classroom. Students were told they would risk losing points or failing a class if they repeatedly use terms deemed oppressive or hateful in discussions or assignments. The instructors – one professor and two doctorate students in WSU’s Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies – outlined their policies in course syllabi.

PULLMAN – It took years of planning, some finessing in Congress and millions of dollars in donations, but this bustling college town finally has enough money to replace the small, outdated runway at its airport. The runway at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport was built decades ago and doesn’t meet federal design standards for modern commercial planes. Passenger flights into Pullman take place almost exclusively on the 76-seat Bombardier Q400, a plane that the runway isn’t designed to handle.

PULLMAN – Washington State University administrators announced this week they are trying to thwart a sophisticated hacking attempt that was detected more than a month ago. Students and staff were notified Thursday evening that administrators “became aware” of suspicious activity in the university’s email and directory systems July 8. The university said it swiftly launched an investigation with help from federal investigators and a private cybersecurity firm.

Starting today, Spokane County residents can reach 911 with a text message.

State troopers are ordering drivers on state Route 395 to near Ritzville to stop driving due to an extreme dust storm that has caused multiple collisions in the area, including a semi truck that has caught fire.

A 19-year-old woman fell out of a second-story window early Friday at the Delta Gamma sorority house in Pullman.

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered at three campgrounds in the Colville National Forest due to "extreme fire behavior," officials said Friday.