Spokane County News

Fairfield has become the first small Spokane County town to approve a contract with the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service as the organization launches a bid to become a regional animal control service provider.

The Spokane County sheriff's office says a woman found hanging earlier this week in the Spokane County Jail has died.

Childress, 27, vanished and was reported missing on November 14, 2012. She was last seen in October of that year.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE POLICE DEPT: In less than 24 hours, the Spokane Police Department has taken three stolen vehicle reports where the vehicle was left running unattended.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Two men were arrested after a car chase that ended with a crash into a Spokane Valley credit union overnight, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.

The US Marshals Service and the Benewah County Sheriff's Office are searching for 31-year-old Britton Michael Hanson in connection to a murder.

UPDATE: KHQ was the only television news crew that responded to the chase on Thursday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a 14-year-old girl last seen in Kennewick on Wednesday.

In his dedication to the liberties of his people and his defeat of apartheid, Mandela became a global symbol of triumph over adversity and one of the most recognizable human rights advocates of the twentieth century.

The Spokane County Prosecutor's Office filed formal charges on Thursday against the driver of a car that exploded in the Garland District in August.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Spokane County Sheriff's Sexual Assault Unit Detective Chuck Haley arrested 18-year-old Joseph E. Preble for numerous felony charges in connection with unlawful sexual relations with a minor child.

Gay weddings made up 17 percent of marriages in Washington this past year, the first year gay marriages were legal in the state.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The City Council expressed interest Tuesday in learning how much it would cost to set up a historic preservation program or contract it out.

On a night when voters weighed in on an array of candidates and initiatives, the Liberty Lake City Council cleared the way for a capital project on a revived ballot.

Wednesday afternoon a group of very special kids had the chance to do some Christmas shopping in Spokane Valley at Target and each one with a very different kind of personal shopper.

KHQ.COM - Spokane Police Ofc. Barry O'Connell is on administrative leave pending the outcome of a internal affairs investigation.

On Tuesday, December 3rd, at 10:20 p.m., Spokane Valley Sheriff's Deputy Byron Zlateff responded to a commercial burglary at Verizon Wireless located at 15150 E. Indiana.

The technology used to tap the phones of 62 defendants in an alleged West Coast drug ring that peddled $20 million worth of oxycodone was the subject of a federal court hearing in Spokane on Tuesday.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich on Tuesday told county commissioners his department continues to feel budget fallout from retirements, injuries, overtime and the cost of hiring new deputies.

Volunteers across the Spokane Valley are going to low income preschools to fit kids with new socks and shoes.