Air quality in Spokane remained “hazardous” overnight. The air quality index at 4 a.m. Tuesday was above 300 at the five working air monitors that measure particulate matter in Spokane County, according to the Washington Department of Ecology.
The Jolly Mountain fire north of Cle Elum grew by about 4,000 acres overnight, just hours after after Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide state of emergency. Fire departments across Washington sent resources to battle the 28-square-mile blaze.
Many Kellogg residents Thursday struggled to wrap their heads around how the McConnell Hotel, a staple of Kellogg’s uptown, could have gone up in a blaze of heat so high and intense that before the hours-long ordeal was over Tuesday, five other buildings would sustain significant damage.
Carrah Goble, who was arrested in 2015 for the death of a man while drunken driving the wrong way on Interstate 90, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Spokane Superior Court to vehicular homicide.
Spokane’s municipal and regional leaders gathered Wednesday morning at the downtown police precinct to announce the roll-out of free medication disposal units set up across the city.
The baseball bat beating that left a 53-year-old man dead outside of his apartment in Airway Heights began because he was trying to stop two teenagers from arguing over who would date a girl at a party.
The Spokane Fire Department rescued a father and daughter who were stranded on rocks in the Devil’s Toenail area of the Spokane River Sunday afternoon.
Dozens of dogs swam, played and barked for an hour and a half during Doggie Dip – a yearly event that brings hundreds of dogs to city pools for the last days of the summer swimming season.
A wildfire that sparked up in the Monument Hill area north of Quincy Wednesday evening gave residents quite a scare as many were told to evacuate immediately.
A settlement was announced Thursday in a landmark lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against two psychologists involved in designing the CIA’s harsh interrogation program used in the
A Spokane man arrested for beating his girlfriend with a baseball bat Wednesday is an actor who recently appeared in an episode of “Twin Peaks” and was a regular background actor in “Z Nation.”