Crews responded to a 10- to 15-acre blaze at Spirit Lake Friday afternoon. By nightfall, it had grown to 20 to 25 acres, according to the Idaho Department of Lands.
Far from his roots in South Carolina, Curtis Hampton found himself in Spokane through service in the military. Now 65 and retired from a career as an operations manager at Boeing, he's has dedicated himself to advocacy.
Spokane Regional Health District Health Officer Bob Lutz issued an order Thursday to isolate a COVID-19-positive man in Spokane County Jail after he refused orders to self-isolate, according to a news release from the county.
Fairchild Air Force Base marked Wednesday its 15th change in command of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, the more prominent of Fairchild’s two wings and the Air Force’s largest air refueling wing.
The Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office are separately investigating the death of a 23-year-old Black woman who died in the Cliff Cannon Neighborhood on Sunday.
In February 2019, Pullman Police broke up a fight outside a bar by using pepper spray against a Black man. Statistics show that arrests and use of force by the department are disproportionate to the city's demographics.
A former construction firm bookkeeper and controller in Spokane Valley was sentenced this month to 90 days in jail and 12 months community service and to pay back nearly a million dollars for stealing from his employer for over a decade.
A 35-year-old Spokane Valley man drowned in Corbin Park Friday, after the kayak his wife and child were in capsized and he jumped into the water to try to rescue them, according to a Kootenai County Sheriff news release.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and Worley Fire responded around 5 a.m. Friday to a report that a crash left a car in the roadway, cut into two pieces, according to a news release.
Weeks after the announcement that Coeur d’Alene’s annual fireworks show would be canceled, officials have announced there will be no Independence Day parade and festival due to rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
About an hour after Gov. Jay Inslee announced all Washington residents will be required to wear face coverings in public effective Friday, all but a handful of people at the Spokane Transit Authority Plaza in downtown Spokane were without masks.
Kootenai County deputies arrived on the scene of a helicopter crash in Rathdrum, near the intersection of Highway 41 and Wyoming Avenue just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post.
Spokane police officers arrested a woman Tuesday suspected of starting a string of fires involving more than 20 burned properties all set Monday morning, according to a news release.
The Spokane Police Department is investigating a serious and possibly life-threatening multi-vehicle collision involving several juveniles, Officer Craig Hamilton said.
The four-pronged plan calls for defunding the Spokane Police Department and instead invest in addiction and mental health programs. Organizers also want greater civilian oversight of the department and to reduce the purchase of tactical equipment.
Two crowds gathered in Spokane on Friday night in commemoration of Juneteenth, the unofficial national holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States. One met in the park to dance, and another met online with a more serious tone.
The Spokane Police Department asked for the public’s help in locating a 10-year-old runaway child Wednesday, according to a press release. Police found the boy and he is safe at home, police said.
Crime Check, a service provided by Spokane County 911 for non-emergency calls, completed 2,607 fraud reports in May, a staggering 1147% increase from May 2019, according to a Spokane Regional Emergency Communications news release.