Jonathan Brunt

Police on Friday released pictures taken of the man who robbed a Spokane gas station earlier this week.

After a week of deadly fires forcing evacuations of whole towns and pushing fire officials to scramble for more help, Saturday was calm. Or as calm as it could be with more than 600 square miles of the state scorched or on fire.

The brown skies Spokane experienced Friday have moved on.

One man hospitalized when he was exposed to chlorine gas Wednesday at a recycling company in east Spokane has been released from the hospital and three others still in intensive care are doing better.

Spokane has been selected as one of three finalists to host a new ice skating championship event.

The last time anyone saw Genevieve Brouillette, she was snuggled by her favorite fleece Minnie Mouse blanket, drinking a combination of Dr. Pepper and root beer out of sippy cup and watching her favorite movie, “Frozen,” said her mother Jenne Brouillette. With Genevieve settled in, her stepfather, Fredrick Ferree, left the camper where the family was living to get a bottle for Genevieve’s 10-month-old brother, Brouillette said. Ferree walked to his father’s residence, which is on the same property. He stayed for a couple minutes to chat but soon noticed smoke, Brouillette said

It’s no secret to the pilots who regularly use Felts Field that the airport sometimes is blocked by trains. Lyndon Amestoy is one of many who worried that the Union Pacific track just south of Felts Field could one day inhibit rescuers from reaching pilots in need, said Terry Maxfield, a waitress and former owner of the Skyway Cafe at Felts Field.

Using air bags, boats, a crane and lots of time, divers Saturday brought to shore most of the plane that crashed into the Spokane River. The Piper Malibu crashed Thursday afternoon not long after taking off from Felts Field. Both men in the plane, Lyndon L. Amestoy, 60, and Richard Lewis Runyon, 64, were pulled from the sunken plane about a half-hour after it crashed, but they did not survive.

Two men were pulled from a single-engine airplane that crashed into the Spokane River this afternoon near Felts Field, authorities said.

A man believed to be suicidal was shot once by police after the man fired shots from a yard in northwest Spokane late Wednesday, Spokane police Chief Frank Straub said.

Ten Mt. Spokane High School students nearly missed prom – perhaps deservedly – when they got stuck in an elevator. The group was in the elevator after finishing dinner at Stacks Restaurant at the Steam Plant in downtown Spokane.

Ten Mt. Spokane High School students nearly missed prom – perhaps deservedly – when they got stuck in an elevator.

A woman who lives at a Hillyard home significantly damaged by fire early Friday says the blaze was likely set by a man who was just kicked out. The Spokane Fire Department said in a news release that the fire was “possibly suspicious in nature.”