Spokane News

Staff at Cooper Elementary School came up with a unique way to honor each other this holiday season while making a sizable donation to Toys for Tots.

KREM 2 News Anchor Randy Shaw was honored during the inaugural Spokane Human Rights Awards Ceremony at City Hall Thursday.

Amtrak is in the midst of canceling five runs of the Empire Builder between St. Paul and Spokane, Wash., citing lengthy delays for hundreds of passengers because of heavy freight traffic along the line and recent extreme cold weather.

On Thursday Louis Hanson was sentenced to life in prison after killing another man in a Spokane gang-related shooting last December.

A couple in the Olympic Peninsula community of Joyce, Wash., say a neighbor helped save their home and their pets from a fire this week.

A burst water pipe in the IT building on the Washington State University campus caused major disruptions of computer service.

A proposal to ship North Dakota crude oil by train to Vancouver mostly drew opponents to a public hearing Wednesday night in Spokane.

But this wasn't just any train, it is the first annual North Pole Express on its way to see Santa Claus.

No one has applied for a retail license in the unincorporated parts of Spokane County one week before the deadline to apply for the marijuana license.

Operation Spokane Heroes and Northern Lights Casino teamed up to donate $10,000 in gift cards to military families in Spokane this holiday season.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho.--A homeless man faces a serious charge after police said they caught him acting inappropriately in Downtown Coeur d'Alene.

UPDATE: The house fire on Boone is out. No injuries have been reported. Neighbors say that the home was vacant and squatters were living there.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Spokane police arrested a man they say fired on two others with a shotgun behind the Red Lion Tavern in downtown Spokane on Monday night, according to a news release.

KHQ.COM - Many of you will order gifts Online this Christmas, which means those gifts will be sent through the mail.

There was a special homecoming Tuesday for a former congressman from Spokane. George Nethercutt returned to his alma mater of North Central High School.

Major Crimes detectives requested that Jason Flett's charges be upped to first degree murder for allegedly killing Ramona Childress.

There's a war of prices stirring in north Spokane between three gas stations at the corner of Nevada and Wellesley where hundreds of people reaped the benefits from it Monday night.

In the winter season the risk of car prowling and vehicle thefts continues. Spokane Police Crime Analysts say if you become a victim of a car prowling you are looking at $300-500 to fix a window and if the thief steals a credit card they estimate that you could take a loss of $500-1000 per card.

Monday night, the Spokane city council voted 6-0 to bring back the boot for habitual parking offenders.

The bust came thanks to some neighbors who have long wondered why the yard behind an Olympic Avenue home was filled with heavy gauge wire and the sounds of an electric drill.