Police are investigating an attempted bombing at the Spokane County Democrats office on North Division Street Wednesday afternoon.

Criminal charges will not be pursued against two Spokane police officers who shot and killed an armed man in the Bell Motel parking lot in September.

A Black man who has spent nearly two decades behind bars says he's grateful that a panel of legal experts was able to review his case with “fresh, unbiased eyes,” helping to expose serious flaws in the police investigation that put him away for life as a teenager.

Makeshift barricades erected by anti-gentrification protesters in Oregon's largest city were still up on Wednesday, a day after Portland police arrested about a dozen people amid clashes over the eviction of a family from a home.

Minneapolis City Council members who tried unsuccessfully to dismantle the police department in response to George Floyd's death are voting Wednesday on whether to shrink it, a move that could imperil the entire city budget because the mayor is threatening to use his veto to protect public safety amid soaring crime rates.

After a 70-year-old woman was fatally shot by a corrections officer Friday in the lobby of the Spokane County Jail, her family is left wondering if her death was necessary.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday she will not run for re-election following a term beset by the pandemic and policing protests.

While fronting the Police, iconic singer-songwriter Sting once wrote and sung "The Bed's Too Big Without You." Much has changed 40 years later. Apparently, the bed isn't big enough at homes with spouses on the other side of the political fence. Von Viva, a Calgary, Alberta-based custom mattress manufacturer, has noticed the deep divide.

SEATTLE – Washington state lawmakers and activists are setting an ambitious agenda for police reform in the upcoming legislative session, saying they hope to make it easier to decertify officers for misconduct, to bar the use of police dogs to make arrests, and to create an independent statewide agency to investigate police killings.

Just days after some 50 Christmas trees were stolen from a local hardware store, the Spokane Police Department said it has arrested the real life “Grinch” who stole them.

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office declined to file charges Tuesday against an officer with a U.S. Marshals’ task force who shot an armed fugitive in September.