Nick Gibson

The intersection of 57th Avenue and Freya Street doesn’t seem like much of a problem area on any given weekday afternoon.

Before Spokane Valley City Councilman Al Merkel started ruffling feathers on the city council, he was irritating his neighbors.

Farming is hard work, and getting into the industry as a relative outsider makes it harder.

Voters in northwest Spokane County last Tuesday rejected a levy lid lift for their fire district for the fourth time in the last decade.

Defunct refrigerators, piles of old tires, construction materials and bags brimming with rotten food. You name it, and Debbie Child has probably seen it thrown out of the back of a truck near her home on the West Plains.

Spokane County will now have some representation on the state’s advisory council for homelessness.

Renowned architect Moritz Kundig, one of Spokane’s most prolific midcentury modern champions, died last Saturday at the age of 98.

Fairfield residents in southeastern Spokane County will now have more say over their firefighting services.

For the first time in more than 50 years, Spokane voters chose to fail a Spokane Public Schools bond.

A major public works project meant to alleviate traffic stoppages at one of the busiest railroad crossings in Spokane Valley has hit another hurdle.

Jennifer Goff believes Bear Lake Regional Park, nestled off U.S. Highway 2 just north of Chattaroy, might be one of the best-kept secrets in Spokane County.

The fate of a 584-unit housing development at the site of a formerly bankrupted golf course in Spokane Valley could be decided by early March.

A state budget committee on Monday voted in unanimous support of a proposed grant program to sustainably rebuild structures lost in wildfires around Washington. Inspired by the devastation the Gray and Oregon Road fires brought to Spokane County, the bill was born out of a monthslong debate among eastern Washington residents over changes to building code in the state that take effect next month. The state Building Code Council announced those changes last year.

The city of Airway Heights has never had much of a downtown.

Contentious discussion and lengthy meetings are seemingly becoming the norm for the new makeup of the Spokane Valley City Council.

The Spokane Valley City Council identified public safety as its highest priority on its 2024 legislative agenda. Just below that is tax relief for the city’s residents.

The Pineapple Express, an atmospheric river known for carrying tropical moisture from the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast, is expected to bring unseasonably warm temperatures and buckets of precipitation across Washington this week.

It’s unlikely Spokane County law enforcement officers will get a whiff of that new car smell this year.

The city of Spokane Valley may see a refresh of its city logo and branding guide.

Leonard Byrne, who served as the Spokane Symphony Orchestra’s principal and only tubist for nearly five decades, died Monday of congestive heart failure in Spokane Valley. He was 70.

The Qlispé Raceway Park next to the Northern Quest casino in Airway Heights may see more development in the coming years if the federal government approves an application from the Kalispel Tribe of Indians to accept ownership of the property on the tribe’s behalf.

Roy Garcia pulled into the parking lot of the Salvation Army Spokane headquarters just after 7 p.m. Thursday at the tail-end of a 12-hour shift behind the wheel of a long red van emblazoned with the organization’s insignia.

Zeeq Michel uses the same bus stop almost every day to get to and from his after-school job at the Salish School of Spokane.

Businesses and residents in unincorporated areas of Spokane County will now face $65 fines each time Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies respond to false alarms triggered by security systems.