Spokane County News

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A second person has been charged with first-degree arson in connection with a fire at a home in northeast Spokane on Dec. 1. Jamie M. Burdeau, 24, is being held in the Spokane County Jail on $15,000 bond in the fire in the 2500 block of North Columbus Street.

A driver attempting to cross a flooded roadway got his car stuck in the water Thursday morning at Spangle Creek Rd and Smythe Rd. Officials with Spokane County Fire District 3 said the car went into the water around 9 a.m. The driver was out of the car when crews arrived.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A woman shot in the hand by members of the Spokane County Sheriff's SWAT team during a motel standoff Tuesday morning told officers she would not surrender, according to court documents.

Greater Spokane County/Valley Meals on Wheels - Volunteers are needed to deliver hot meals to elderly and disabled people.

While the frozen conditions of mid-winter may not translate into peak construction time in Liberty Lake, the city's north side appears to be on an encouraging schedule for development according to the area's leading builder.

As the county takes control of the regional solid waste management from Spokane, area cities must decide how their municipalities will fit into the new system.

A school bus crash sent eight students on board to the hospital Wednesday morning.

For want of $2.8 million, folks living east of Snoqualmie Pass may lose sight of the Legislature's deliberations in Olympia.

Five former Spokane County Sheriff's Deputies were sworn into the Spokane Police Department Monday along with three other new officers.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE POLICE DEPT: On 03-03-14 around 7:30 pm, Spokane Police responded to a report of Lewd Conduct at the STA Plaza, 701 W. Riverside.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A registered sex offender who told police he was doing "the Lord's work" when touching himself in public after arrest in September is back in jail after allegedly exposing himself to a teenager downtown on Monday.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A woman wanted on a felony warrant out of Montana was shot by law enforcement following a standoff at a Spokane Valley motel early Tuesday, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said.

One woman was shot and a man was taken into custody Tuesday morning after the couple barricaded themselves inside a local Motel 6, according to authorities.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A 26-year-old man was arrested over the weekend after allegedly robbing a man of his cellphone in a North Spokane grocery store parking lot, a little less than four months after pleading guilty to a similar crime.

Detectives with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, working with investigators from the United States Postal Inspection Service, arrested a 27-year-old man who was caught trying to pry open a post office box.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The co-owner of a West Plains ranch where authorities discovered dozens of emaciated horses last year is in custody after allegedly fleeing to Montana when charges were filed.

While the frozen conditions of mid-winter may not translate into peak construction time in Liberty Lake, the city's north side appears to be on an encouraging schedule for development according to the area's leading builder.

The judicial system can be overwhelming for any person. So imagine having schizophrenia or some other serious mental illness that's gone unchecked, and trying to navigate through the justice system with scheduled hearings and conditions.

The Nordstrom store in downtown Spokane was closed Friday after a maintenance worker fell off a ladder and died.

So many people spoke in opposition to a plan to rezone a piece of property in Greenacres to high density residential to allow an apartment complex that the public hearing before the Spokane Valley Planning Commission Thursday was continued to the next meeting March 13. The 5-acre parcel is located on the northeast corner of Sprague Avenue and ... (more)