Jared Brown

Washington State University equestrian team coach Laura Moore walked away with a $4,000 and a championship belt buckle at the mechanical bull riding “world championship” held at Spangle’s Harvester Restaurant on Saturday.

After about 74 acres of land were cleared for new ski runs that opened in December, the Lands Council’s Old Growth Hike shifted focus from advocating against the expansion to appreciating the old-growth forest that remains.

After Washington State Patrol arrested Nicholas Harker, 36, for driving under the influence in May and found a nearly half empty hydrocodone acetaminophen pill bottle prescribed for his sister, detectives began investigating him for illegally prescribing opioids.

Spokane police arrested Anthony Gibson, 26, Friday night. He escaped from a correctional facility this spring and is accused of assault and robbery.

The Integrated Science and Engineering building will add almost 82,300 square feet of labs, classrooms, faculty offices, study spaces and a collaborative space the school is calling the “innovation studio.”

Jake Peterson said ideas started going through his head for how he could help kids in need of shoes two weeks. He started a Facebook page for donations about a week ago and said he’d be at McEuen Park from 10 a.m. until at least 6 p.m. Saturday challenging people to one-on-one basketball. The loser has to pay $5 for the fundraiser.

A man suspected of shooting at a building in a Spokane Valley business park last Friday before sheriff’s deputies shot and killed him has been identified as Colin Osborn.

A 54-year-old work release inmate left Valley Hospital without authorization while he was receiving treatment Sunday night, and law enforcement has been unable to locate him as of Monday morning, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Shannon B. Morley was convicted of trafficking stolen property and was an inmate at the state Department of Corrections’ Brownstone Work Release facility, according to a news release. Inmates have to be categorized under the DOC’s lowest security level to be eligible for work release.

Nicholas S. Spooner, 25, of St. Maries, Idaho, died Aug. 15 at Kootenai Health. His passenger Timothy P. Spooner, 59, was transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and listed in serious condition Monday morning.

At the Spokane Buddhist Temple, people celebrated the annual Obon Festival, a Buddhist celebration that recognizes the importance of one’s ancestors, on Sunday. It featured a memorial service, as well as Japanese art, music, food and dance.

Officials canceled evacuation notices just after 5:30 p.m. for Spokane Tribe of Indians and Stevens County residents near a 25-acre, wind-driven wildfire that started on the 4700 block of Reservation Road Sunday morning.

While an expanding list of rules have contributed to a number of family home providers going out of business, one particular area of the new Washington Administrative Code regulations has providers even more concerned: education requirements that could send many providers back to school over the next five years.

Spokane City Councilwoman Kate Burke and Moms Demand Action Spokane held the Vigil For Victims of Gun Violence outside Spokane City Hall Sunday afternoon.

Thunderstorms dropped heavy rain on two wildfires in Colville on Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning, slowing the blazes, along with fire personnel, in their tracks.

AHCC had gardening and composting programs for years, but in spring 2016 the prison approached master beekeeper Jim Miller with a proposal to create a cutting-edge apprenticeship program at the prison.

For the first time since the state Legislature required voting by mail statewide in 2011, people could register and vote in person up until the night of the 2019 primary election. And the online and by-mail registration deadline moved from 29 days before the election to just eight.

The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office investigation into the 2017 killing of Shirley Ramey was Idaho’s first case of a federal gun database leading to a murder suspect.

Spokane got its first whiff of the 2019 wildfire season Saturday night, and wind could continue to bring widespread haze south from a wildfire on the Colville Indian Reservation in the evenings early this week. The city also is expected to see the hottest days of the year so far Monday through Wednesday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.