Spokane County News

BREAKING NEWS: There's a water rescue happening right now in Spokane Valley in the area of Maringo Dr. & Farr.

Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office Confirms Identity and Cause of death of the man who was killed on December 15, 2013 on the 2500 Block of Garfield SPOKANE COUNTY, December 17, 2013 - The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed the identity and the cause of death of the man who was killed on December 15, 2013 on the 2500 Block ... (more)

UPDATE: Six U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan, after a helicopter with engine trouble went down in the southern part of the country.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The man killed by a gunman in what authorities have described as a potentially targeted attack owned several businesses and had moved to Spokane just a few years ago with his family.

A member of the Spokane County Sheriff's K9 unit helped detain a wanted fugitive early Friday morning in South Herald.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: On December 13th, 2013, Spokane County K-9 Deputy John Cook and his partner Ekko responded to the 2500 block of West Dean Avenue to assist SPD in locating a suspect actively violating a Domestic Violence Protection Order.

Over the past couple weeks, numerous residents of south Spokane County have had their mail stolen out of their mailboxes.

Local officials are preparing to sell $19 million in tax-exempt bonds to pay for construction of a plant that would be leased by Aviation Technical Services, which is based in Everett and has operations in Moses Lake.

When Dwaine Miller was 26 years old he began using a cane to help him walk. By his early 30s he was in a wheelchair.

The Spokane County commissioners last week accepted a $1.5 million grant from the state to rebuild Market from Farwell Road to Parksmith Drive.

Animal authorities on Sunday impounded one of two pit bulls that mortally wounded a Spokane family's dog last week and were working to verify that the second pit bull had died from injuries in the attack.

Gibson is currently working on the Washington State University Football Operations Building.

Spokane County Fire District 8 is joining University High School and Albertsons in an attempt to fill a school bus full of toys to be donated to Toys for Tots.

"We thought we really needed to look at what is our greatest need," Ledeboer said.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service is investigating a deadly attack by two pit bulls on another dog near Chase Middle School.

A Tri-Cities woman in her 50s is the first flu death of the season in Washington.

The family of Zachary Bisiar, the 16-year-old with cerebral palsy who died of a heart attack on board a Delta flight last weekend, has launched a fundraising campaign to help defray the costs of the teen's funeral after a bogus appeal appeared online.

Santa Claus is coming to the South Hill next week! The man in red will be guided through the South Hill by the firefighters of Spokane County Fire District 8 for the annual event.

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.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The region's property crime problem hit home with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office Wednesday, when one of the department's community-oriented policing stations was the target of a burglary.