Spokane County News

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The following represents a random sampling of some people who passed away recently in the Spokane area - a police officer and a nun, a business owner and a banker, a World War II hero and a Kaiser worker.

Spokane County's jobless rate in March dropped to 7.9 percent from February's revised rate of 8.6 percent.

A special election was held on Tuesday with various items on the ballot, including library funding in Spokane Valley.

Astute observers of the Harvard Road roundabout may have noticed a similarity between Liberty Lake's latest traffic calming project and the corresponding bill from the Washington State Department of Transportation.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE SHERIFF'S OFFICE: On April 22nd, 2014, at 9:30 a.m., the Spokane County SWAT Team and Spokane Valley Investigative Unit Detectives served simultaneous search warrants at 4609 N. Calvin and 14323 E. Longfellow.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The new $44 million Providence Medical Park in Spokane Valley will have to open without its four operating rooms amid a fight with competitor Valley Hospital over whether the outpatient surgery suites are even needed.

Up at the Harvest House in Green Bluff, things are a little dryer than it has been the past couple of years.

Members of the Spokane City Council want the Spokane County Prosecutor to review officer-involved shootings quicker.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Toenail clippers, toilet paper and some toothpaste could not buy freedom for an accused child rapist and a man facing drug charges at the Spokane County Jail this weekend.

Authorities said an inmate tried to escape from the Spokane County Jail. Staff said they found a small hole in a wall during the weekend.

Before he represented Liberty Lake on the City Council, Dan Dunne weighed in on the future of parks and recreation in the place he calls home.

Several People are in the hospital after a two vehicle crash north of Spokane near Elk at the intersection of Madison and Frideger.

A Pilot is in the hospital after he was forced to make an emergency landing near the Spangle Airstrip.

A Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputy said the two drivers involved in a two car wreck in Elk Sunday night were believed to be intoxicated.

A Spokane Valley family was shaken up on Easter weekend after a man crawled through their bedroom window on Saturday.

The 40th racing season kicked-off at the Spokane County Raceway Saturday with the first of ten mud bog events.

Detectives with the Spokane County Sheriff's Department have confirmed that a gun found last month by an elementary school student is the same one that was used to kill 53-year-old Harry Giesbrecht on January 4th, 2014.

Prisons and jails in Washington are not only using the federal Affordable Care Act to cut their own health care costs, they're also signing up soon-to-be released inmates so their health care coverage begins as soon as they walk out the door.

The Liberty Lake Police Department is investigating a case of suspected child abuse that was reported in the 19000 block of East Shannon Avenue on April 7. A person called in to report that a 6-week-old at that address had been treated at a local hospital for 14 fractured ribs, a skull fracture and extensive bruising.

"The upgrade a reflects the city's low debt burden, sizeable tax base which is expected to expand into the medium-term, and healthy financial performance, which is maintained through strong management practices," Moody's said in announcing the upgrade earlier this month that also praised the Valley's healthy financial reserves.