Jared Brown

The Spokane County Superior Court judge assigned to the first-degree murder trial of Caleb Sharpe will remain on the case, despite a motion from defense attorneys alleging the judge made biased statements about evidence and premeditation while deciding to try Sharpe as an adult.

Clark’s Diamond Jewelers in Coeur d’Alene is involving attorneys in its crusade to award more than $500,000 in refunds to customers after an insurance company ruled that snowfall fell short of a promotional total.

Gonzaga University’s longest serving president, the Rev. Bernard J. Coughlin, who is credited with saving the institution from financial collapse during his tenure, died Tuesday morning at 97.

On a December night, police in search of Vincent Gardner, a white man suspected of domestic violence, arrived at Mister Car Wash and questioned a black man they found outside. It wasn’t Gardner. It was Anwar Peace, a former Seattle police activist with a long, embattled history with the West side department.

The Spokane Chinese Association made the difficult decision to cancel its Lunar New Year festivities after a number of community members raised concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.

Extra counselors are at Ferris High School today to help students and staff after the death of 2019 graduate Kellen Erickson, 19, who died in a crash on Thursday.

One person died in a car crash south of Spokane early Thursday afternoon. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies and Fire District 8 personnel responded to the crash at South Baltimore Road and South Freya Road after it was reported around 12:15 p.m.

A Dutch Resistance operative and Holocaust freedom fighter during World War II who now lives in Spokane will be honored as Washingtonian of the Year in February.

Spokane police officer Dan Cole was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this month pending an interntal investigation into whether the officer misused a public computer.

Police have jailed a Spokane man suspected of beating his father last Saturday, leaving him with severe injuries that he succumbed to on Monday.

On a summer day in 2018, Courtney Holden was dragging a large duffel bag out the front door when her adoptive mother, Judy Holden, chased after her and said, “Get back in that house,” one neighbor recounted to Spokane police. That was the last time the neighbor saw Courtney.

Each of the past three years, thousands of people have marched through downtown Spokane in Women’s Marches with themes of ‘resist,’ ‘persist’ and ‘insist.’ On Saturday, a smaller group of around 1,000 demonstrators championing various causes marched through cold and snow under a banner of resilience. “This year was intended to be about progress,” said Maria Garcia-Bachman, Women’s March organizer for the past four years. “The things that we are each doing in our individual communities to make a difference, to bring positivity, to encourage change.”

Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Barry McHugh determined Coeur d’Alene police officers were justified in shooting and killing 29-year-old Fares J. Al-Samno in September.

After the medal ceremony, former Gonzaga Prep football coach H.T. Higgins, Spokane County Superior Judge Tony Hazel, former Gonzaga University basketball player Jason Rubright and KREM news director Noah Cooper, among other Gonzaga Prep alums, posed for photos with Gleason and McClain.

For the fourth year in a row, thousands of people are expected to gather in Spokane Saturday for the Women’s March, coinciding with hundreds of rallies around the nation.

A Spokane County prosecutor wrote that a city police officer’s kick to a handcuffed suspect’s groin appeared to be retaliatory, intentional and not for the protection of himself or others in a letter declining to prosecute the officer for assault.

A Coeur d’Alene woman accused of killing an elderly Bonner County woman in 2017 will be tried in June after she pleaded not guilty this week.

Troopers aren’t sure why the suspect’s father showed up in the field where they ended the pursuit.

A Coeur d’Alene jewelry store was baffled yesterday when an Illinois-based company tasked with verifying Saturday snow accumulation for a marketing promotion disputed what many on the ground believe to be true: It snowed at least 3 inches.

Clark’s Diamond Jewelers owner Jane Clark put up a percentage of the store’s holiday sales in a wager with an insurance company that Jan. 11 would have at least 3 inches of snow. Hitting that mark meant the insurance company would refund more than $500,000 in holiday purchases.

George the German shepherd knows how to sit and shake hands, and his big brown eyes make him especially photogenic – so much that a front-page picture of George in a Spokesman-Review story about dogs that have stayed at SCRAPS the longest garnered around 50 adoption inquiries. The article featured four other dogs, yet George was the star.

The line to get lift tickets to Silver Mountain on Friday, the first day the resort was open since three people died in an avalanche Tuesday, stretched nearly to the gondola entrance by 9 a.m.