Fairchild Air Force Base News

Joe Tegtmeyer and Paul Nelson, both lieutenant colonels, gaze around at the relatively luxurious digs in a brand new house on Fairchild Airforce Base on Wednesday.

Nicolas Strickler of Fairfield graduated Basic Training At Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas on April 3, 2009 and is now training at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State.

Patty Murray proposes $11 million new safety complex at Spokane's Fairchild Air Force Base U.S. Sen.

Dale Jenkins, senior pastor at Airway Heights Baptist Church, says plans are in the works to build a new center capable of seating 450.

Jean Wood holds a piece of art created by her late husband, Stanley Wood, on display at Area 58, at 3036 N. Monroe St.

Eastern Washington roads will receive about $25 million in federal stimulus money.

Staff Sgt. Starlette McMillan, 22nd Movement Control Team, tightens down the cargo netting on a pallet June 18 at Sather Air Base, Iraq.

A Kyrgyz official said the United States and Kyrgyzstan have reached a deal for use of the Kyrgyz airport to transport U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan.

Early Monday morning the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center here helped coordinate search and rescue operations with local and state agencies to save an injured hiker in the mountains near Wenatchee, Wash.

Facing Our Losses - Afgahnistan Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

Spokane Valley police are investigating the robbery of the Banner Bank branch at 1521 N. Argonne Road.

Tech. Sgt. Jason Hindmarsh and Staff Sergeant William Williams, 732nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, Detachment 3, use a cable crimper to attach a connector on an electrical line at Patrol Base Shocker in Iraq.

Brandon L. Seaman and Caitlin E. Seiler, both of Spokane. Jordan R. Frederickson and Kailee L. Gross, both of Spokane.

Leroy Berry, 90, right, gets a hug after receiving the Bronze Star at Bestland Retirement center in Coeur d'Alene on Monday, June 8, 2009.

STA drivers supervisor Bob Lands says he will have 20 modified buses available to move Wheelchair Games athletes and support personnel to hotels and event venues.

Staff Sgt. Janice Shipman explains to Air Force Theater Hospital patients the purpose of the K-9 Visitation Program May 15 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq.

On a day reserved for remembering fallen service members, hundreds of veterans and their family members, plus active service members and dignitaries, turned out to break ground Monday on land that will be a permanent place for remembrance.

A former girlfriend of murder suspect Robert Johnson testified that she received everything she wanted from him during the initial years of their affair.

A Spokane teenager was arrested on a charge of attempted first-degree murder Monday, two weeks after a transient was set ablaze as he slept near Sprague Avenue east of downtown.

Eight Air Force security officers who have been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are pictured on a memorial at Fairchild Air Force Base.