In a unanimous vote, the Liberty Lake City Council passed a resolution Tuesday to adopt a K-9 dog program for the Liberty Lake Police Department. As part of his presentation to the council, Police Chief Brian Asmus had the Airway Heights Police Department show off its K-9 unit in a demonstration during Tuesday’s Council meeting. “We’re hoping it’s going to be a deterrent,” said Asmus. “Once people learn that we have a drug-detection dog as part of our department, word will get out and hopefully that will help curtail some of the drug trafficking that we suspect is happening in our region. Just with I-90, being so close to the Idaho border, and Liberty Lake happening to be a halfway point between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, it’s a spot that we suspect there is probably more drug dealing going on than we’ve been able to uncover.”

A man robbed a Zip Trip in northeast Spokane at gunpoint late Tuesday, fleeing with an undisclosed amount of money.

A suspected auto thief who was killed after he shot a Spokane police dog while trying to elude officers was shot in the back, an autopsy report released this week shows. Johnnie L. Longest III was pronounced dead March 18 at Deaconess Medical Center, hours after he ran from police near Division Street and Rich Avenue. The fatal shootout occurred in an alley after Longest tried eluding police.

A Pullman man motivated by the shooting of a Spokane police dog has given the department a German shepherd puppy. Nick Lungu breeds and trains the dogs for his business, I-Guard International. He sells the animals for as much as $2,500 each but gave the Spokane Police Department first pick of his latest litter after reading of the March shooting of Var, a longtime police dog.

Two robbery suspects were arrested by Spokane police Wednesday night after officers used a police dog to locate one of the suspects near Driscoll Boulevard in northwest Spokane.

This a tale of two type-A personalities, both with tails.

Spokane police are training a new police dog to replace one that was nearly killed in the line of duty.

SAGLE, Idaho – A K-9 drug-detection dog named Zip is back on the job in North Idaho. The 7-year-old border collie with a white stripe down his face and black ears disappeared for a day after being let outside Thursday as part of his morning routine.