Corbin Vanderby

In a matter of six months, Frances Overbay went from growing irises, working part time and donating food to becoming bed-bound and dying in her room at a Spokane Valley nursing home.

After rain fell Saturday on both the Sunset fire and the Crescent Road fire, crews continued to work Sunday on suppressing the flames as drying weather threatens further destruction.

A man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death in 2021 died in his Washington State Penitentiary cell on Aug. 3 at the age of 45, according to the Washington State Department of Corrections.

Spokane city residents agreed Tuesday to start paying a $15-a-year tax aimed at maintaining clean drinking water.

Transgender and nonbinary people are now allowed to receive passports matching their gender identity after an executive order from President Donald Trump previously forced binary gender markers.

The nearly 8,000-acre Hope fire in Stevens County that began July 8, continues to burn but firefighters made grounds reaching 75% containment as of Sunday.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert Sunday for two ham salad products possibly contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, according to a department news release.