Spokane News

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE VALLEY POLICE DEPT: On June 10, 2013, at 9:20 p.m., Spokane Valley Sheriff's Deputy Jeffry Rogers responded to the area of Barker Road and the Centennial Trail on a report of two males spray painting graffiti under the bridge.

A woman driving the the wrong way in the southbound lane of highway 195 hit an oncoming car head-on before 8:30 Tuesday morning according to the Washington State Patrol.

KHQ.COM - On Tuesday morning emergency crews responded to a 3 car crash at Trent & Crestline.

Authorities said it was very similar to a fire that broke out less than 200 feet from the house on North Lee Street.

A fire at Geno's Pizza that spread to the Sinto Apartments near Gonzaga University left several tenants homeless with no possessions.

How many people have dreamt of being an astronaut someday and then found out what we'd need to do get there, and gave up? One Spokane woman never gave up, and Monday, her dream continued.

A 23-year-old man was sentenced in court today 11 months after he hit a 2-year-old girl with his car while drunk, and then fled the scene.

Silver Mountain Resort has opened the high-speed gondola, which means the downhill bike season has begun.

SPOKANE, Wash It doesn't take too long to find in any population center graffiti sprayed on walls, buildings, and in alleys.

Spokane Police say just after 4:00pm Monday afternoon they were called to the Riverfront Park fountain for a belligerent male who was pounding on the roof of a security car.

A level three sex offender is being released in the Colville area. The Stevens County Sheriff's Office said Terry L. Thomas is a transient.

An armed robbery held the Community Health Association of Spokane near 10th and Pines on Monday.

A Spokane, Washington-area woman says she was forced to quit her job as a hair salon supervisor after her boss told her to cover her shaved head while at work.

Police say a Phoenix bus driver was caught on cellphone video repeatedly punching a passenger and slamming the man's head against a bench.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Although the first transcontinental railroad connected through Spokane in 1882, north-south travel was still laborious and slow, by saddle or in wagons, for long trips to places like Colville and Northport.

After a little morning cloud cover left over from a weakening band of showers, it should turn into a zesty, mostly sunny to partly cloudy day.

Officials in Cavanaugh Bay in Coolin, Idaho have confirmed with KHQ that a single-engine plane overshot the runway at the Cavanaugh Bay Airport.

Does Dad have a drawer full of neckties and countless bottles of cologne he will never use? How about those same sets ofscrewdrivers from all the children? A pet peeve on holidays like Father's Day can be commercialism.

A Spokane pet adoption center will fill a new space on Trent and Bradley. Scraps will occupy an old Harley-Davidson dealership's 30,000 square foot building.

How Did Father's Day Begin? The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wa., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.