Spokane County News

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.

In a press release issued, Deputy Mark Gregory says the inmate is a woman and was found hanging in a shower area.

A Spokane City Council candidate who lost big in his attempt to unseat incumbent Councilman Jon Snyder is demanding a recount.

Budgets are tight for law enforcement agencies all over the country and the local departments are no different.

The Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service has announced that one of the horses seized from a property in the West Plains on November 15 has died.

The Washington State Patrol responded to 60 wrecks in Spokane County on Friday due to freezing rain.

A Whitman County man charged with murder headed back to trial for the third time on Monday after two mistrials in the case.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: On Sunday, December 1st, 2013, Spokane Valley Sheriff's Deputies Jerad Kiehn and Brett Hubbell responded to a possible burglary in progress at 10 N. Pines Road.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A 60-year-old man was arrested after a Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputy discovered a baggie of meth hidden in a quart of ice cream in the man's car.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A small creek that flows the length of John A. Finch Arboretum will soon become a better home for fish.

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.

Conventional wisdom for campaign seasons like the one just passed says local elections help boost turnout for the statewide contests.

The town of Fairfield will host its annual Christmas on the Palouse Old-Fashioned Christmas Gift Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Fairfield Community Center, 304 E. Main St. There will also be lunch items available for purchase, pictures with Santa from 10 a.m. to noon and a Christmas tree sale from 9 a.m. to noon.

Friday's wintery weather made for slick conditions and a busy day for emergency crews on local roadways.

A resident in the 24000 block of East Broadway Court called Liberty Lake Police the afternoon of Nov. 21 to report that a neighbor had gotten inside her unlocked car.

Spokane County's progress toward expansion of the urban growth area has been bumpier than a ride down a country road.

The city of Coeur d'Alene lit up the sky Friday evening in huge fashion for the 27th Annual Coeur d'Alene Resort Holiday Light Show.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Spokane County sheriff's deputies arrested three suspects with 24 felony convictions between them after a high speed chase through Spokane Valley on Friday morning.