The Spokane area is experiencing a variety of gang violence the county’s top law enforcement officials have never seen before.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.  — First lady Jill Biden arrived in Washington state Monday to tour military bases and meet with service families.

The system has a long, complex history, but one important factor, according to the latest draft of Spokane's new Downtown Master Plan, was a 1961 report that called for an "'inner loop system' of one-way streets defining the core area's perimeter to improve vehicular movement."

Angela Bruns is a co-leader on research funded by Congress to understand how exposure to gun violence at a young age affects teenagers. It's the first such study on gun violence to be funded by Congress since 1996. 

Current regulations offer the Spokane City Council and Spokane County Board of Commissioners a potential path to holding some in-person meetings, but it remains narrow and unlikely.

The city is expected to ask the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs to double-down on its funding of the effort, which would allow the Spokane Police Department to dedicate more resources to the cause.

Demand for commuter train access between Spokane and the West Plains accelerated in 1907, as the state college had become one of the largest teacher-training colleges in the Northwest. 

People in Spokane “have a high regard and strong sympathy for their neighbors of northern Idaho” and would be “pleased to have its sturdy and energetic people linked with them in one great state,” the Spokane Daily Chronicle's editorial board opined. It would greatly expand the wealth and population of Washington.

SEATTLE — MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher who expressed gratitude “for the exceptional privilege it will be to partner in giving away assets with the potential to do so much good when shared."

WASHINGTON – The first time someone approached Rep. Mike Simpson with the idea of breaching dams on the Snake River to save Idaho’s salmon, he started laughing.

After nearly two decades of politicking, controversy and dispute, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, near The Dalles, Oregon, allowing boats laden with goods to pass by once unnavigable rapids.

Expanding Balfour Park as plans to build a new library bordering the park take shape.

If he hasn’t already, President Joe Biden may come to regret using the word “Neanderthal” to describe decisions by a couple of Southern governors to drop their states’ mask mandates.

A group of protesters marched from Riverfront Park to the Black Lives Matter mural on Main Avenue on Saturday, ahead of the beginning of the trial of the Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd. Spokane has its own issues with race and policing, the protesters said.