Jonathan Glover

Professional wrestler Charlotte Flair, daughter of WWE legend Ric Flair, drew hundreds of people to Auntie’s Bookstore in downtown Spokane for a signing of her recently released book.

State resources were approved Saturday to battle the so-called Whitehall Fire burning about eight miles southwest of Coulee City in Douglas County.

A city prosecutor arrested for DUI in June remains on the ballot for a municipal court judge position despite all signs pointing to an abandoned campaign.

City officials don’t know what exactly made the water dirty and smelly for some residents on Spokane’s South Hill on Tuesday evening.

The Colville School District closed and law enforcement officials asked Colville residents to stay inside as police searched for a man who fired several shots at a Stevens County deputy early Wednesday.

It was a dog owner’s worst nightmare that fueled a mother and daughter’s fight for harsher animal cruelty laws in Idaho.

The energy was palpable. Smiles were on high. Children were giddy. On this Sunday, at this cathedral, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the former Bishop of Spokane, would return home and deliver Sunday morning mass to hundreds of Catholics, where he had so many times in the past.

If city living isn’t for you, worry not – look just west of Spokane along the so-called West Plains and you’ll find a small nest of communities, each more different than the one before.

The small town of Rockford plans to honor the victims of the Freeman High School shooting with a moment of silence at this weekend’s Southeast Spokane County Fair. Along with shirts, banners and signs bearing the words “Freeman Strong” in the high school’s signature cornflower blue dotting the fairgrounds, fair organizers said also they’re expecting the fair’s hundreds of patrons to show up in support. Especially during the royalty ceremony, where two Freeman juniors will be crowned princess and queen of the fair.

It was in the middle of the chaos surrounding a school shooting last week that three people saw opportunity rather than heartbreak. While parents sped along traffic-clogged U.S. Highway 27, parked their cars and ran toward Freeman High School – where they had just gotten word a student fired a weapon into a second-story hallway, wounding or killing who knows how many – Renee Mann, Larry Flett and Nicole Jensen lurked behind the scenes and prowled through the long line of unattended vehicles, according to investigators.

Antonio Davis, a 25-year-old man who was shot by Spokane Police officers early Monday while attempting to flee after a short vehicle chase, was shot because he started to turn towards one of the officers, a detective wrote in a recently released search warrant. Detective R.L. Spangler wrote the warrant on behalf of the two responding officers, Chris McMurtrey and Tucker Seitz. The two officers were identified in court documents, which also detailed how Davis crashed the 2013 Dodge Avenger he was driving into a tree on Sinto Avenue. He had led police on high-speed chase near North Monroe Street, then attempted to jump over a fence as he fled on foot.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich blamed a breakdown of society, the media and problems with the mental health system for Wednesday’s

Kay Workman started Tuesday morning like he always does. He woke up, shuffled his way into the kitchen and started making breakfast. Except this morning, in the middle of cooking bacon and toast, nature called and he had to use the bathroom. He wasn’t gone more than three or four minutes, he said, but when he returned to the kitchen, awaiting him was a stove fire.

Police have identified two of the three suspects wanted in connection with a Sunday kidnapping at a marijuana store in Cheney, and police located the SUV owned by the kidnapping victim abandoned in a field in Airway Heights on Tuesday.

At least one person was seriously injured in a vehicle crash on Spokane’s South Hill Monday morning.

An employee of a Cheney marijuana shop remained missing Monday, a day after he was abducted at work.

Nathan Thompson has a gift. Give him a howling motor and he’ll have it purring in no time. Show him a leaky transmission and he’ll shore it up. And give him a saw blade, a trailer bed and a 1935 Model E John Deere engine, well, he’ll make a table saw.

A man was arrested Sunday afternoon in connection with a fire started in a field near Second Avenue and South Pittsburg Street in Spokane’s East Central neighborhood.

As if to celebrate Spokane its break from a weeks-long cloud of smoke, thousands converged upon Kendall Yards Sunday morning to breathe in several lungfuls of air along the area’s scenic, hilly bike routes at Spokefest 2017.