Airway Heights News

Charlie Yamamoto, owner of Baek Chun Sushiyama, displays sushi at the restaurant in Airway Heights.

Spokane Firefighters responded to a 2-alarm fire at an Airway Heights motel early Thursday morning.

As our nation prepares to celebrate its independence fireworks stands around Spokane County have opened for business for the next three days.

The Spokane County sheriff's office says a convicted federal criminal, considered to be armed and dangerous, and may be hiding out in our area.

Envision Spokane , the organization promoting a "Community Bill of Rights" for the city, says it will turn in the signatures Wednesday morning for its petitions to put the proposed charter change on the November ballot.

Fitness club chain Oz Fitness Inc., of Spokane, says it has bought West Plains Fitness, near Airway Heights, and will operate it under the Oz Fitness name.

Graydon Brown, brewmaster for the Golden Hills Brewing Co. in Airway Heights, tests the level of fermentation on a batch of Clema TMs Gold.colinm@spokesman.com Their friendship started like so many others: over a couple of glasses of beer.

I'll send a coveted reporter's notebook to the reader offering the best explanation for how so many preschoolers and others survive sleeping with bears.

Dale Jenkins, senior pastor at Airway Heights Baptist Church, says plans are in the works to build a new center capable of seating 450.

Sheila Domon, who near Airway Heights, spreads parsley in her food dryer Friday.

While some political races in the city of Spokane are pretty crowded, other positions around the county are not.

Neighbors in an Airway Heights housing development are complaining about the smell of sewage in their water.

Casino banks on expansion: Making more money even during recession, Coeur d'Alenes hope to maintain momentum Jun.

The Coeur d' Alene Tribe says it will expand its casino hotel near Worley, Idaho, by 50 percent and add other amenities in a $75 million project that will start immediately.

More traffic lights, improvements to crosswalks and a possible roundabout at the Craig Road intersection were among proposals for a stretch of U.S. Highway 2 which runs through Airway Heights.

Taylor Pettit, 1 year old, and her mother Robin Pettit of Airway Heights, Wa., get an eyeful of bubbles as they participate in the Spokane County Moran Prairie Library Baby Lapsit program Thursday in Spokane.

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The Kalispel Tribe of Indians, which operates the expanding Northern Quest Resort & Casino, in Airway Heights, says it expects to add about 400 employees by the end of this year there, mostly to staff an upscale hotel and luxury spa complex it's developing.

Winter fades as days lengthen; now it is easy to see change as a good thing. Who would knock lilacs' coming in bloom or new ducklings? Last weekend, over 150,000 spectators gathered for marching, floats and food.

To inaugurate its expansion and the recent opening if its new Airway Heights, WA office space, the company has also acquired distinctive mascots: Nubian fainting goats.