Jared Brown

The Spokane climate strike will start at noon on Friday at the Rotary Fountain in Riverfront Park. Students will share speeches and poetry at the Spokane Tribal Gathering Place outside city hall from 1 to 2 p.m.

Incumbent Medical Lake school board member Felicia Jensen said she understands the concerns of military families as a retired U.S. Air Force officer and can gauge how well the school district is preparing students for college through her job at Eastern Washington University. Challenger Laura Parsons, a Medical Lake City Council member, said her perspective comes from helping to manage the city budget and raising children who have special needs.

Incumbent board member Mitch Swenson said the school district needs the two-year capital property levy of 50 cents per $1,000 on November’s ballot to acquire land for future schools and upgrade technology in schools. Challenger Bill Johns said he believes the capital levy is a result of excessive teacher pay increases causing the district to dip into reserve funding.

Craig Wade, Nathan Herbig and Jacob Brazle were among the Coeur d’Alene police officers involved in the incident, according to a news release. Deputy Doug Goodman of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and an unnamed Idaho State Police trooper were also at the scene.

A school bus carrying students to Spokane Public Montessori collided with a sedan on the way to school Tuesday morning.

Alfredo LLamedo, an activist who often spoke out against Spokane City Hall, died Sunday after a long illness.

Mutton Bustin’ may not be bull riding, but that clearly didn’t matterto the roaring crowds and child contestants hoping for a chance at sheep riding glory at the Spokane County Interstate Fair. The shows ran four times daily except for Sunday, and were close to full each time, with between 30 and 36 children registered.

A fire at a marijuana growing warehouse has been deemed accidental but the specific cause remains unknown, a Spokane Valley Fire Department spokesman said Sunday.

An engineering teacher at Washington State University has been hospitalized after a one-vehicle crash near Pullman early Sunday, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Lila Cline learned her family was a multigenerational Spokane criminal enterprise that is among the most notorious in the region’s history.

Seven officers reportedly chased Tyler Reece Rambo, 18, after a report of gunshots on the beach just after fireworks concluded and exchanged gunfire with Rambo near the basketball courts. Rambo is being held in Kootenai County Jail on charges of second-degree attempted murder and aggravated assault. His initial bond was set at $500,000.

Both incumbent Cheney School Board member Henry Browne and challenger James “Sonny” Weathers are pointing to their experience as elected officials as reasons to vote for them and think the school district needs to build more schools to address growth in enrollment.

Idaho law enforcement arrested Jackie Shayde Sedillo, 29, of Middleton, Idaho, on an Ada County warrant for failure to appear in court after pursuing him for nearly 24 hours.

U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect Wednesday in Saint Helens, Oregon, in connection with a drive-by shooting in the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood on Aug. 20.

Police in Coeur d’Alene shot and killed a man Wednesday morning in a residential neighborhood between Silver Lake Mall and Lake City High School.

Bobby Risenhooven, 51, also known as Bobby Risenhoover, of Cheney is charged with two counts of first-degree malicious mischief for the damage to the police vehicles and one count of second-degree malicious mischief for for the damage to the Knitting Factory door.

Fewer smoke-filled days this summer showed that 2017 and 2018 may not be the new weather norm for the Inland Northwest.

Sean Mortensen, 19, from Spokane was found dead Sunday after he left his hiking partners north of Cle Elum on Friday and did not return.

Visitors to Lake Coeur d’Alene this weekend were soaking up summer’s few remaining weeks with lakeside family time and a Sunday concert that is part of the Music in the Park series.

hA deacon from Hawaii, Nectarios Yangson, told parishioners in Post Falls on Sunday that he found the icon in a puddle of floral-smelling oil on a bookshelf in his home. The myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon has since visited more than 1,000 churches since 2007 and it made its first trip to the Inland Northwest this weekend.

Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy James Slater died from his injuries after he crashed his patrol car when rounding a sharp curve on his way to a report of a stolen vehicle on Aug. 29, 2003. Spokane’s Law Enforcement Memorial Project erected the first of 27 signs at the site of Slater’s crash.