Spokane County News

It happened just off of Highway 395 on Agar Road around 8:30pm. Spokane County Sheriff's deputies tell KHQ the man hit a deer while riding his motorcycle, throwing him about 100 feet.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The Washington State Patrol announced late Thursday that the investigation into the officer involved shooting death of Stephen C. Corkery was complete and has been turned over to the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office for review.

Spokane Police officials said the number of people trying to commit suicide by cop was on the rise across the country in July.

In the past 48 hours, Spokane County law enforcement agencies have responded to 40 suicide calls, including a man who slashed his own throat, and Police Chief Frank Straub is looking for new ways to get those in crisis the help they need.

In the past 48 hours, Spokane County law enforcement agencies have responded to 40 suicide calls, including a man who slashed his own throat, and Police Chief Frank Straub is looking for new ways to get those in crisis the help they need.

Tuesday afternoon, the Spokane County SWAT Team served a search warrant for Sheriff's Office Investigative Task Force detectives near the 4300 block of N. Sommer Ct. 31-year-old Kregg A .

On Tuesday at about 5:00 p.m., Spokane County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Bratton responded to the area of 200 E. Elcliff to an occupied residential burglary.

Ninth District Rep. Susan Fagan, Spokane County Commissioner Shelly O'Quinn and former Commissioner Mark Richard are scheduled to attend, as well as council members from Fairfield and Latah.

For low-income dropouts age 16-21 in Spokane County; call Next Generation Zone at 340-7800 or visit www.nextgenzone.org .

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The trial date for the teen driver accused of vehicular homicide in the deaths of two girls in Spokane Valley has been pushed to October, one year since the fatal crash.

SPOKANE, Wash.- A Spokane International Airport police officer is in the Spokane County Jail facing charges of rape of a child in the 3rd degree, incest in the first degree, and depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The Spokane County Library District regularly adds new books from just about every genre of fiction and nonfiction it is possible to imagine to its Digital Downloads collections.

UPDATE: SPOKANE, Wash- KHQ confirmed new information on a murder-suicide in Spokane that took place Tuesday morning.

The Spokane County Prosecutor's Office is pursing incest and child rape charges against an Airport Police officer.

The International Hot Rod Associationa and IRG Sports + Entertainmenta are excited to announce that Spokane County Raceway, located in Airway Heights, Washington just outside of Spokane, has become IHRA's newest member track and IHRA's first on the West Coast, effective 2015.

KHQ.COM - In a one week period from July 1st through July 6th, the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service has taken in 89 dogs and 145 cats - a total of 234 animals.

The Washington attorney general's office says food handler certificates issued through the eFoodhandlers website are not valid in the state.

The Spokane City Council on Monday took ancestral veneration one step further in saluting the undead - that is, about 1,600 jobs that the zombie television series "Z Nation" brought to the city.

Spokane area law enforcement officers said they had no changes in the works on Monday to prepare for recreational pot officially going on sale on Tuesday.

Safety improvements were finally complete at a dangerous intersection in the Spokane Valley in July.