A police motorcycle officer was yanked from his bike Thursday morning when a line from a falling utility pole wrapped around his neck after he turned to pursue an out-of-control car. The Spokane police officer was rushed to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to his neck.
A police motorcycle officer was yanked from his bike this morning when a line from a falling utility pole wrapped around his neck after he turned to pursue an out-of-control car. The Spokane police officer was rushed to a hospital with neck injuries that authorities said don't appear to be life threatening. He was described as conscious and alert.
The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office has formally requested a felony charge in the case of a Washington State University student who was found unconscious along Pullman-Albion Road in November.
The driver who struck and killed a 61-year-old Cheney man Sunday night also was involved in a serious injury accident southwest of Cheney in April, records show. The fatal accident Sunday occurred on First Street, which also is state Highway 904, in southwest Cheney.
Spokane’s newest community event debuts July 11 along a two-mile stretch of Howard Street from Riverfront Park to Corbin Park. Summer Parkways will transform Howard Street into a thoroughfare for nonmotorized transportation from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Motorists on U.S. Highway 2 northeast of Farwell Road are going to find big changes this weekend. Southbound lanes will be closed through Sunday evening so that the contractor on a $55 million freeway project there can reroute traffic onto a new, lowered highway alignment.
Motorists on U.S. 2 northeast of Farwell Road are going to find big changes this weekend.
Southbound lanes will be closed Friday through Sunday evening so that the contractor on a $55 million freeway project there can reroute traffic onto a new, lowered highway alignment.
A 73-year-old Rosalia man was killed Thursday evening when a tractor he was riding along a creek overturned, pinning him underneath it, the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office reports.
A violent hailstorm damaged crops in the Coulee City and Hartline areas of Grant County on Wednesday evening, sending water down gullies and leaving up to six inches of hail piled on the ground. “It’s been a great year until you get something like this,” said Russell Dingman, who lost 200 acres of valuable wheat in one field north of U.S. Highway 2 in the Hartline area.
Skywatchers might have a good reason to get up really early on Saturday. A partial eclipse of the moon will be seen in the southwestern sky between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.
A Spokane man was reported in stable condition at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center today after he was struck in a crosswalk at Riverfront Park by a hit-and-run driver about 3 a.m., police said.
A violent hail storm damaged crops in the Coulee City and Hartline areas of Grant County Wednesday evening, sending water down gullies and leaving up to six inches of hail piled on the ground.
Blue skies this morning followed Wednesday’s high of 80 at Spokane International Airport, which was only the second time this year that the temperature has reached 80 or higher there.
The last month of spring was the third-wettest and third-coldest on record in Spokane, but forecasters said more summerlike weather should prevail this weekend. Participants in the city’s annual Hoopfest tournament should find things to their liking: not too cold, not too hot.
West Nile virus has been found in a mosquito sample taken from the Winchester Wasteway near Ephrata, Wash., officials said Tuesday. The sample was taken in conjunction with monitoring efforts by state and county officials and Grant County Mosquito Control District No. 1.
Sunshine is making its return to the Inland Northwest for the next two days, but forecasters said that humidity left over from a two-day rain storm is causing clouds to form during the early part of the day today.
Building a streetcar line in downtown Spokane is getting serious consideration. The Spokane Transit Authority wants the public’s help in deciding where a line would go and what kind of vehicles would be used.
