Thomas Clouse

Spokane Valley detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting that was reported at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday on 16th Avenue near South Union Road.

The Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday announced that it has a new leader.

A convicted felon with a history of brandishing knives apparently is not a dog person. 

Buds emerging on tree limbs and green grass in Lilac City lawns mark the official begin of the spring boom when realtors begin the annual rush to buy and sell homes.

A neighborhood bike shop, known for its quality service and several locations, will close today at it's original store in Spokane Valley.

A Texas-based restaurant chain that specializes in chicken parts is about to take wing in downtown Spokane.

Officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived Monday at several U.S. airports, but Spokane and Seattle were not among them.

It wasn't the money, the interest or new taxes that killed Pig Out in the Park. It was time, founder Bill Burke said. The man who started an event in 1979 that reached iconic status, bringing thousands of visitors to Riverfront Park as summer came to an end in the Lilac City, said on Wednesday that h's already fielded more than a score of calls of persons interested in continuing his legacy after he announced the end of Pig Out on Tuesday. 

The legal case surrounding allegations of hazing by Mead High School football escalated Thursday when one of the alleged victims, and his parents, filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages in a case that now also names Eastern Washington University. 

James “Bo” Gritz, a decorated Special Forces officer who helped negotiate an end to the deadly Ruby Ridge standoff 34 years ago in North Idaho, will be laid to rest on Friday. He was 87.

A low pressure system is doing an odd thing as it leaves the West Coast and enters Eastern Washington: it's gathering strength. As a result, the National Weather Service and Avista Utilities have issued high-wind warnings about a storm that could bring gusts as high as 70 mph to Spokane and 60 mph to Coeur d'Alene.

One of the few Spokane-area businesses that actually takes raw materials and molds them into useful parts for other industries has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after suffering a series of setbacks, including one from an employee who was charged with syphoning more than $1 million into her own bank accounts.

As much of the world spirals into conflict, a Spokane developer clings to a cell phone that may bring messages from a family member facing the repression that prompted him to flee Iran for a better life. Text messages are the only thing linking Manoochehre "Mike" Gahvarehchee, 63, of Spokane, and his 21-year-old nephew in Iran.

Students who attend Eastern Washington University may soon have new housing options.

In a gathering Thursday of agents who sell homes, businesses and property, keynote speakers brought generally good news about the economy that fuels those transactions.

Owners will host a grand opening on March 17 for the newest Raising Cane's restaurant located in Coeur d'Alene.

About the same time in 2016 that Spokane developer Lanzce Douglass flew down to Palm Springs to meet with his estranged father, Jerri Via delivered an ultimatum to Harlan Douglass. Via sparked a relationship with Harlan while Harlan's wife, Maxine Douglass, was still living in a care facility as she battled Alzheimer's disease. At the time, Via told the aging developer that he either had to break off contact with his eldest son, Harley Douglass, or Via.

Officials at Sandpoint-based Litehouse Inc. announced this week that the name of the company that makes popular salad dressings has been changed to Litehouse Foods.

The Coeur d'Alene firefighter, who despite life-threatening injuries was able to warn other firefighters about a shooter on Canfield Mountain last summer, has announced his retirement as he continues to try to regain the use of his legs.

As part of a deposition with a lawyer, Harley Douglass described growing up around a father whose focus mostly centered on building a real estate empire in and around Spokane. Harley said navigating around Harlan Douglass, who died in 2023, was like walking across a frozen lake: you never knew when you were on thin ice.

Spokane developer Harley Douglass sought out his father, the late Harlan Douglass, in 2018 after he began hearing around town that the mercurial business giant had been complaining to others that Harley, his eldest son, both owed Harlan money and had inappropriately obtained his land.

Washington State University embarks this year with the refurbished Pac-12 Conference at a time when college sports are smashing headlong into the free market system.

In the early summer of 2019, Spokane real estate magnate Harlan Douglass walked into the office he founded decades earlier, and stood still.He was lost.Douglass, who with his late-wife, Maxine, built a billion-dollar real estate empire before he died in 2023, struggled that day to find to his office. His longtime employee, Deanna Malcom, stood up and reached out. "I walked him, by hand, to his office," Malcom said. "Then we both cried for a while.