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News >  Spokane

Graham narrowly leads Wilson in 6th Legislative District race

Tue., Nov. 6, 2018

Republican Jenny Graham is ahead of her Democrat opponent Dave Wilson by a mere 250 votes in the 6th Legislative District position two race. Graham has earned 50.32 percent of the votes, while Wilson holds 49.68 percent of the 39,094 votes.

News >  Spokane

$77 million Spokane library bond poised to pass

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 6, 2018

A bond to improve and expand Spokane’s library system was on track to pass Tuesday evening.

News >  Spokane

Jeff Holy defeats Jessa Lewis for state Senate seat

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 6, 2018

Republican Jeff Holy will move on to the state Senate.

News >  Spokane

Mike Volz has solid lead in race against Kay Murano for 6th District House

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 6, 2018

Republican Mike Volz is holding a solid 6.5 percentage point lead in the race for a Spokane Legislative seat against Democrat Kay Murano.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Sexual assault victims can track their kits with new system

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 6, 2018

The Washington State Patrol has rolled out a new system for sexual assault victims to easily track rape kits as they’re processed though different government agencies, similar to how a UPS package is tracked online. “This system is something different,” said Larry Hebert, director at the WSP Forensic Laboratory Services Bureau. “It’s essentially for the benefit of the survivors.”

News >  WA Government

Campaign sign theft, vandalism reach new levels in 5th District race

UPDATED: Sun., Nov. 4, 2018

Theft and defacement of campaign signs may be at an all-time high in the 5th Congressional District.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Former president of Freeman High fundraising group arrested on charges of theft

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 1, 2018

A former leader of a Freeman High School parent-teacher group was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing over $6,000 from the group’s bank account for personal items.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Coeur d’Alene middle school student arrested, charged with falsely reporting school shooting threat

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 1, 2018

Coeur d’Alene police arrested a middle school student on Thursday on charges of falsely reporting that a school shooting would happen.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Pins found in Halloween candy in Omak

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 1, 2018

Omak Police reported two incidents of sharp pins found in Halloween candy on Thursday, according to a news release.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Man stabbed near North Central High

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 31, 2018

A man was attacked and stabbed in the torso near North Central High School at about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to police.

News >  Spokane

Holocaust survivor’s speech instills important history lesson with emotion

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 30, 2018

For a few minutes, the 800 in the room could only hear the clicking of Rabbi Yisroel Hahn’s lighter as he and Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan lit 11 candles.

News >  Spokane

New sculpture on Centennial Trail depicts the family of late V.A. chief surgeon

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 27, 2018

A new sculpture on the Centennial trail west of the Monroe Street Bridge stands as a symbol of Dr. Suzan Entwistle’s family.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

3 people shot outside Cheney Zip’s Drive-In; police say incident may have been connected to massive early morning fight

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 27, 2018

Three people have been hospitalized after an early morning shooting at Zip’s Drive-In in Cheney Saturday.

News >  Spokane

Here’s what the proposed downtown stadium could look like

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 26, 2018

By no means is it official, but a local architecture firm released a sample rendering for what a $31 million downtown sports stadium might look like in Spokane.

News >  Education

Eastern Washington University’s new student union opens

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 26, 2018

Eastern Washington University’s new Pence Union Building is the culmination of two years of construction and $47 million.

News >  Spokane

62-year-old Spokane woman swims the English Channel

Fri., Oct. 26, 2018

Robin Davis was about jump into the English Channel and begin the first of six one-hour legs of a relay swim from Dover, England, to France. It was just after sunrise, and the water was running at 62 degrees, 1 degree for every year she’s been alive. She was smeared with grease to prevent heat loss and chafing from the salt, and she had no wetsuit.

News >  Spokane

Mead grocery bagger makes comeback win in state championship

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 25, 2018

Henry Johnson was considered an underdog heading into this year’s Best Bagger Battle, the state championship for grocery baggers.

News >  Spokane

Airman invents piece for 60-year-old plane to keep its landing-gear doors from breaking

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 23, 2018

The window behind Tech. Sgt. Shawn Roberge’s computer at Fairchild Air Force Base reveals a shop arranged with metal fabrication machines and tools he uses to tinker with parts for an old KC-135 Stratotanker.

News >  Spokane

Dogs train to become service animals at Green Bluff’s fall festivities

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 20, 2018

Five in-training service dogs paid a visit to Beck’s Harvest House in Green Bluff Saturday.

News >  Nation

Mega Millions jackpot passes the $1 billion mark

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 20, 2018

Thousands tested their luck in the lotto Friday for the second highest jackpot in history.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Cheney man appears in court for alleged killing of wife with laced ice cream

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 18, 2018

A Cheney man appeared before a judge Thursday to face charges that he allegedly killed his wife by lacing her ice cream with a lethal dose of pain medication in June.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Woman dies in hit and run in Liberty Lake; police looking for vehicle

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 18, 2018

A pedestrian died after a hit and run in Liberty Lake Thursday morning. Police are searching for the vehicle involved, a red Dodge pickup truck, according to a news release.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Teen killed in downtown shooting; police arrest suspect

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 18, 2018

Spokane police late Wednesday arrested a man suspected of shooting a teenager who later died from his injuries.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Cheney man charged with murder in wife’s poisoning death from pain medication-laced ice cream

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 18, 2018

The Spokane Sheriff’s Office arrested a Cheney man Wednesday on suspicion of murdering his wife in June by putting a lethal amount of crushed pain pills in her ice cream.

News >  Spokane

Cheney police use beanbag gun to shoot and arrest man wielding knives in street

Wed., Oct. 17, 2018

Police shot a man with a non-lethal beanbag round on Wednesday in Cheney when he refused to drop two large knives he was holding in the middle of a street while walking toward police.