Nick Gibson

Current Position: county reporter

Nick Gibson, the Spokane County and general assignment reporter, joined The Spokesman-Review news team in January 2024. Nick was a college summer intern reporter in 2022 prior to graduation from Washington State University where he was the editor of the arts section at the Daily Evergreen during the 2021-22 school year.

Email: nickg@spokesman.com
Phone: (509) 459-5039

All Stories

News > Sci/Tech

‘A golden spike in the history of space flight’: Spokane astronaut Anne McClain reflects on humanity’s return to the moon

UPDATED: Thu., April 2, 2026

U.S. Army Colonel Anne McClain said she’s had lots of time to reflect lately.

News > WA Government

New state law expands property tax exemptions for larger pool of Spokane County residents

UPDATED: Wed., April 1, 2026

About 5,000 more seniors in Spokane will qualify for property tax breaks thanks to a state law signed this week. The county, however, won’t collect fewer taxes, so most taxpayers will pay slightly more in a tax shift.

News > Sci/Tech

NASA officials say Wednesday launch of Artemis II mission is on track, despite solar activity

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

The team behind America’s return to the moon will be all business on April Fools’.

News > Local Government

Overpass may be renamed in honor of Spokane County deputy killed while helping driver last summer

UPDATED: Tue., March 31, 2026

The late Sgt. Ken Salas, and his last act of kindness, may soon be memorialized indefinitely.

News > Sci/Tech

‘It’s the story of humanity’: NASA prepared for Wednesday launch of historic Artemis II moon mission

UPDATED: Mon., March 30, 2026

A cosmic reunion more than 50 years in the making is just around the corner.

News > Federal Government

Several thousand pack north Spokane park for music, food and sign waving for ‘No Kings’ protest

UPDATED: Sat., March 28, 2026

The posted start time of 1 p.m. didn’t stop a few hundred from gathering early at B.A. Clark Park for Spokane’s third “No Kings” protest against the Trump administration and its policies.

News > Local Government

Spokane County adopts new charge for public to get officer body camera footage

UPDATED: Fri., March 27, 2026

YouTubers, and the rest of the public, will need to put up some money to receive body camera footage from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

News > Local Government

West Plains residents may soon vote on new fee to protect area’s groundwater

UPDATED: Mon., March 23, 2026

Property owners on the West Plains may decide later this year if they will pay annual $15 fees aimed at improving water quality.

News > Local Government

With proliferation of websites sharing police body camera footage, Spokane County considers new records fees

UPDATED: Fri., March 20, 2026

YouTubers earning big money by posting police body camera footage may be dinged with new, higher fees in Spokane County.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane County Sheriff’s Office seeks help in solving cretaceous kidnapping

UPDATED: Thu., March 19, 2026

Mead’s shiniest theropod is missing.

News > Local Government

Patricia Simonet Laughing Dog Park is slated for closure. Eastern Spokane County residents are pushing back

UPDATED: Fri., March 20, 2026

Otis Orchards resident John Sahr wanted to put a memorial bench dedicated to his friend, Kerry Brown, in the county’s first off-leash dog park.

News > Higher education

Pressure campaign by animal rights groups, along with outside threats, leads WSU to abandon ‘terminal surgery’ lesson at veterinary school

UPDATED: Wed., March 18, 2026

Public pressure from animal rights groups and threats to the staff of Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine have prompted the school’s leadership to abruptly end long-running surgery lessons that ended with euthanasia.

News > Sci/Tech

WSU hopes to meet new nuclear age in stride, 65 years after reactor on campus

UPDATED: Tue., March 17, 2026

Government and industry are looking to nuclear energy to power arsenals, data centers, and medical research.

News > Crime/Public Safety

‘A fresh start;’ More than two dozen dogs related to SCRAPS enforcement case adopted within hours

UPDATED: Fri., March 13, 2026

Puppies can be an alluring thing.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane resident’s 37 dogs up for adoption after handing them over to county

UPDATED: Thu., March 12, 2026

A Spokane resident surrendered 37 small mixed-breed dogs to the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service, more than 20 of which are now available for adoption at the agency’s shelter.

News > Spokane

Bloomsday organizer ‘feeling lucky’ after returning to Spokane from Qatar, where he was stranded amid Iran conflict

UPDATED: Thu., March 12, 2026

Doug Kelley was biding his time in his hotel room in Doha, Qatar, when the 1971 Clint Eastwood flick “Dirty Harry” came on.

A&E > Northwest Passages

Remote Alaska’s ‘queen of badassery,’ Sue Aikens, shares life lessons and tales from the frontier

UPDATED: Thu., March 12, 2026

Few may be as comfortable off the grid as Ammi Midstokke, who pens The Spokesman-Review Outdoors column of the same name.

News > Spokane

Hey, Jody Allen: Here’s an exciting bid for the Seattle Seahawks from the part of Washington that really matters

UPDATED: Tue., March 10, 2026

It’s unlikely the Seattle Seahawks will be owned by a nonprofit serving homeless children and their caretakers, but that’s not stopping Family Promise of Spokane from making a pointed bid anyway.

News > Federal Government

‘Always be skeptical’; Crocker, local experts warn U.S.-Israeli military action could have broad, hard to discern impacts

UPDATED: Sat., Feb. 28, 2026

Regional foreign policy experts warn that the fallout of the joint strikes on Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces early Saturday morning could be far reaching, and tough to discern in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

News > World

Bloomsday luminary stranded in Qatar as conflict errupts in Middle East, air travel is halted

UPDATED: Sat., Feb. 28, 2026

Doug Kelley, who helped organize the first running of Bloomsday, was traveling home Saturday from a trip to Africa, at a pit stop in Doha, Qatar, when he got an alert on his phone.

News > Federal Government

Top Washington Democratic lawmakers call for transparency, peers to assert congressional authority following strikes on Iran

UPDATED: Sat., Feb. 28, 2026

Washington’s top Democratic lawmakers say the joint U.S.-Israel military action against Iran early Saturday morning shirked congressional authority, and are calling on their peers to reconvene “to put an end to this war.”