Spokane County News

Everyone could use a good laugh once in a while. Fortunately for people in the greater Spokane area, the Spokane County Library District provides a wide selection of books guaranteed to tickle people's funny bones.

KHQ.COM - The Spokane County Sheriff's Department has released video from their helicopter Air-1 of the Stearman biplane's opening flyover to start this year's Armed Forces Torchlight Parade and their second pass where they honored the KC135 aircrew lost in Kyrgyzstan as they flew a "Missing Man Formation."

Just before 7:30 Monday morning a 3-vehicle crash involving a water truck occurred at Highway 2 and Mt.

Multiple sources have confirmed that three officers were involved in the May 16th shooting in Nine Mile Falls that killed the suspect in a shooting that happened less than an hour before at Maple and Grace in NW Spokane.

Spokane County's medical examiners can feel free to talk about the results of investigations into deaths that involve actions by law enforcement officers, a new state law ensures.

Prosecutors plan to rest their case Tuesday in the Clay Starbuck murder trial. The Deer Park man is charged with killing his ex-wife Chanin.

The owner called the Spokane County Sheriff's Office after a man approached him asking for a cigarette.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A Spokane County water truck rolled over in a two-vehicle accident this morning.

Miss Spokane is taking the Navy SEAL Fitness challenges today at Eastern Washington University.

SPOKANE The Lands Council has partnered with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office to give low-risk offenders an opportunity to make a positive impact on our environment.

A deputy with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office has been arrested for 2nd Degree Domestic Violence and 2nd Degree Assault according to Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A Spokane County study claiming significant negative tax impacts from a proposed Spokane Tribe casino on the West Plains is drawing criticism from the city in which the casino would be built.

It is a great time right now to be a fantasy fan in the greater Spokane area. Whether people prefer urban fantasy, paranormal romance, darker horror-flavored stories, deconstructionist takes on the genre, or traditional epic quest novels, they can find a lot of great books at local libraries and area retailers such as Auntie's Bookstore .

Spokane's police chief says officers were tracking a "dangerous individual" they believed responsible for a recent fatal shooting when they shot and killed that man Thursday in the nearby Nine Mile Falls area.

For almost 200 years, authors and lovers of the horror and fantasy genres have been fascinated by vampires and exploring tropes most people associate with Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Vampires had made the transition from folk tales to being featured in poems in the 18th century, but they weren't featured in prose stories until 1819 when "The Vampyre" ... (more)

KHQ.COM - The funeral for Capt. Tyler Voss will be held in his hometown of Boerne Texas on Friday April 17th at 4pm at St.

Details of secret lives spilled across a Spokane courtroom Wednesday as jurors in the murder trial of a Deer Park man heard intimate tales of suitors trying to set up dates with the victim - the ex-wife of the accused.

Deputy Howe located the Explorer traveling south on Argonne approaching Broadway.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Spokane County must pay Judge Annette Plese more than $15,000 for unused vacation after she left her District Court position when elected to Superior Court, a federal judge has ruled.

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