A Southern Baptist pastor and owner of a Spokane Valley plant nursery was shot and killed by a Spokane Valley police officer late Wednesday, police said.
A security officer doing his rounds in east Spokane was shot and killed Tuesday after a confrontation with a group of apartment residents sitting outside along their rear alley on the warm summer night. George Hayek, 26, an officer for Securitas Security Services USA, died at the scene just before 11 p.m. He armed himself with a BB gun that looked like a semi-automatic handgun during the fatal confrontation.
Spokane Police detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Tuesday night in an alley on East Pacific Avenue near a Pepsi Bottling plant at 4014 E. Sprague Ave.
Lynn Mandyke on Tuesday gingerly leafed through two boxes of aging documents, black-and-white photographs and personal effects, some more than 130 years old. They tell the history of Judge George W. Turner, a former U.S. senator from Spokane, and his wife, Bertha, renowned as a society hostess and plant lover.
A 19-year-old man in Spokane underwent surgery Monday to remove a knife that was lodged in his head when he was attacked and stabbed about 2 a.m. in the downtown area.
A retired Air Force sergeant in Spokane wants the city to commemorate the death of an early aviator who crashed his Curtiss biplane in front of a fair crowd of thousands in Spokane nearly a century ago. Blaine Burrell said the death of 19-year-old Cromwell Dixon, sometimes called the “Boy Aviator,” was an important episode in the history of aviation.
A 19-year-old man in Spokane underwent surgery this morning to remove a knife that was lodged in his head following a stabbing about 2 a.m. in the downtown area.
Summer weather should return to the Inland Northwest starting today, but forecasters are warning that a new wind storm and cooler weather are possible on Thursday.
Local government officials in Spokane County say the region needs about $20 million a year in additional funding to keep up with road and highway needs. They are proposing the creation of a countywide transportation benefit area that could levy new taxes or fees to raise the money locally, with some of that money going to leverage larger state and federal grants.
A fire early Friday in the playground at Regal Elementary School at 2702 E. Rich Ave. destroyed a playground structure. Spokane Fire Department crews quickly extinguished the blaze following a 1:48 a.m. call, but not before the plastic materials in the play structure had started to melt.
A dramatically reduced level of field burning got started on the Rathdrum Prairie in North Idaho on Wednesday but was shut down when the smoke failed to rise above ground level, Idaho officials said Thursday. At least 50 acres of bluegrass were burned before officials ordered the fires extinguished, said Ralph Paul, air shed coordinator for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality in Coeur d’Alene.
A dramatically reduced level of field burning got started on the Rathdrum Prairie in North Idaho on Wednesday but was shut down when the smoke failed to rise above ground level, Idaho officials said today.
Drier air and slightly cooler temperatures are expected across the Inland Northwest today with lots of sun and highs in the middle 80s in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene.
The historic Cliff House at Arbor Crest Wine Cellars is rising from the ashes – literally – after a fire gutted the 1924 building in December. The damaged mansion was dismantled down to its mortared rock foundation in recent weeks, with significant pieces of the old building set aside for use in the historical reconstruction.
A Spokane Police officer in a patrol cruiser was involved in a collision with another vehicle early today, and the driver of the vehicle was arrested for driving under the influence, police said this morning.
Traffic in downtown Spokane was clogging streets this morning as a larger number of vehicles were coming into the city for two big events along with holdups because of construction on Second Avenue.
Hot, dry weather is expected across the Inland Northwest again today before a cool down starts on Wednesday and continues into the weekend, forecasters said.
Organizers of a relay run from Spokane to Sandpoint say there was little they could have done to prevent an accident that killed a Greenacres woman over the weekend. The Saturday morning death cast a pall over the 3-year-old event that took 1,300 runners down Mount Spokane starting Friday morning and across three counties before ending Saturday in Sandpoint.
Organizers of a relay run from Spokane to Sandpoint say there was little they could have done prevent an accident that claimed the life of a Greenacres woman over the weekend.
A newly rebuilt section of Lincoln Street on Spokane’s South Hill contains an innovative system for gathering and reusing storm water in Cannon Hill Park. Mayor Mary Verner led a gathering of public officials and neighbors along the street last week to congratulate them on the project.
A relay-race runner was in serious condition Friday afternoon after being struck in the morning by a car on U.S. Highway 2 at Colbert Road. Robin Johnson, 44, of Spokane, was crossing the highway when the accident occurred.
