Spokane County News

A woman in her 20s died yesterday at a local hospital of swine flu, the Spokane Regional Health Dsitrict said today.

Police confirmed Tuesday that the suicidal man deputies confronted in an officer-involved shooting in Spokane Valley last week was armed with an airsoft pistol.

Spokane is rejecting Tim Eyman's latest bad idea. Current results from Spokane County are 43% in favor and 57% against the initiative.

A one-car crash Tuesday night killed a Tekoa, Wash., boy who was to turn 18 today, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office announced.

The title of this post is the headline of this commentary coming from The Spokesman Review in reaction to an intriguingdebate over a potential capital case in Washington.

In Spokane County, election officials counted about 84,000 ballots. One of the hottest issues was Proposition Four.

A 22-year-old Airway Heights man learned early Saturday that you can run from police in the dark, but you can't hide from the sheriff's helicopter.

A woman in her 50s with no underlying health problems is the latest victim of the swine flu in Spokane County.

A member of a Northwest motorcycle gang died today when his bike slid more than 200 feet into an oncoming car on North Market Street, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.

A former soldier who teaches at the Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., is accused of taking a date into the school and raping her, choking her unconscious at one point.

Spokane Valley Mayor Richard Munson says the city is "ready to go" on their newly launched snow removal program.

Washington state and the Department of Social and Health Services say that the Spokane County Sheriff's Office will be reimbursed most, if not all, of the costs associated with the search for and eventual capture of Eastern State Hospital patient Phillip Paul.

Spokane County commissioners have fired the company they hired last year to operate the Raceway Park at Airway Heights.

If the ghost that haunted Elizabeth McLanahan at her Cheney home in 1909 is still around, he's not doing much harm.

Thieves strike again by ramming a car into a convenience store and grabbing an ATM machine on the South Hill Wednesday morning.

A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday evening in North Spokane County after crossing the center line and colliding with a car.

A significantly small budget is forcing Spokane County Commissioners to find a way to slash about $10.5 million by December.

A 16-year-old boy who police say walked into a classroom with his hands extended as if clasping a pistol and told a teacher he had been hired to kill her soon found himself in handcuffs and his school in lockdown.

The Correction Lieutenants have reached an agreement with Spokane County for concessions that will help offset budget cuts in 2010.

On Tuesday, sheriff's detectives arrested the 18-year-old roommate of a North Spokane man found murdered on October 18th.