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Spokane County Fire District 9 needs to replace aging fire trucks and relocate its busiest fire station, according to Chief Matthew Vinci.
Though the stabbings of four University of Idaho students happened nearly four years ago, the relentless public records requests from true crime content creators and other people across the U.S. asking for crime scene photos and intimate communication is still wreaking emotional havoc for the victims’ families.
A 58-year-old woman has been identified as the person who died earlier this week in a downtown Spokane motel fire.
Spokane County Fire District 11, which covers the 70 square miles surrounding the small southern Spokane County town of Rockford, is asking voters to renew a six-year emergency medical services levy on the November ballot.
A person died in a house fire Monday morning in North Idaho. Northside Fire District, two Selkirk Fire District stations and Sandpoint Fire Department were dispatched about 3:30 a.m. to North Kootenai Road for a reported structure fire, according to a Northside Fire District news release. While responding, the…
A Lummi Nation man pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle on Thursday to illegally shooting two bald eagles on the Lummi Reservation last year, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
A parent mistakenly brought a gun onto Brentwood Elementary School’s campus Thursday morning, according to the Mead School District.
A 75-year-old man who went missing Monday in Spokane has been located safe, according to a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office news release.
A Seattle man and Stevens County woman were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday, 4 miles south of Chewelah.
Spokane Valley fire investigators determined improperly discarded cigarettes caused fires at Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake apartment complexes this summer that displaced 88 residents.
Editor’s note: Buchholtz was found safe, the sheriff’s office reported Thursday.
A disabled smoke alarm “likely contributed” to the death of a woman Tuesday at a downtown Spokane motel, according to the Spokane Fire Department.
A 37-year-old Bonners Ferry, Idaho, man is accused of shooting at his ex-wife Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene before being arrested in Boundary County.
Combative behavior, outbursts and contradicting narratives on Wednesday riddled an ongoing murder trial of a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death.
A woman is dead from a motel fire and a suspected arsonist is in jail for another blaze that displaced nearly a dozen residents after the two fires broke out on the same block within 10 hours of each other Tuesday morning on the west end of downtown Spokane.
A Spokane man is suspected of using the dark web to ship thousands of cocaine parcels to people in all 50 states and several countries during the last four years.
A 20-year-old driver died and a 21-year-old passenger is in critical condition after the pickup truck they were in went down an embankment Sunday in North Idaho near the Canadian border.
Minutes before Joshua Paine was gunned down by a complete stranger two years ago in the Garland District, his wife, Leslie Paine, shared a cup of coffee with him and kissed him goodbye like any other morning.
The CEO of a company in charge of managing health care payment contracts for a pool of clinics in the Pacific Northwest was sentenced to four years in federal prison after he was found guilty of embezzling approximately $30 million over the course of six years.
A vehicle fell from the third floor of the Coeur d’Alene Resort parking garage and landed on its roof, causing minor injuries to the two occupants of the car.
The 8-year-old girl who was found unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub over the weekend has been identified by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office as Ky’Liana Johnson.
A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed Thursday morning near Camelot Park in north Spokane.
A man is accused of crashing into a car and power pole before slamming into the Spokane Housing Authority building, causing extensive damage that shuttered the building for the week.
A man pulled out a gun while arguing with a motorcycle rider in a small town north of Leavenworth. He then lost his weapon to the other man, who shot him in the leg, according to the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office.
A 30-year-old man died after an explosion inside his vehicle last week in the Chief Garry Park Neighborhood.
Eight firefighters were injured while putting out a house fire in Lake City on Thursday morning, the Seattle Fire Department said.
An adult California sea lion lies dead at the mouth of Duwamish River in West Seattle, killed after it was shot at least a dozen times, an expert said.
A “swatting” call sent Lake City High School into lockdown early Wednesday afternoon after police received a report of a male with guns and a bomb in the school parking lot.
The chief of police in Odessa filed a lawsuit on Friday against the city of Airway Heights that claims she was repeatedly harassed by a superior for being “a woman working as a police officer” during her time with the city.
A 7-year-old boy who unexpectedly died last week at a Spokane Valley home was identified by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office as Evan Leeper.
A man and woman were shot with one round in the early morning hours Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene.
A Spokane judge on Wednesday chose not to declare a mistrial in the case of a man who attempted to represent himself in a trial where he is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend.
BOISE – Idaho law enforcement believe a man found dead after poisoning himself in a Boise church 44 years ago could have a connection to the 1982 Tylenol killings, an unsolved string of homicides that roiled the nation and changed the way consumers open over-the-counter pill bottles to this day.
A Spokane man on trial for strangling and stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death three and a half years ago entered Tuesday’s proceedings representing himself.
A 40-year-old woman is accused of kidnapping two young girls whose mother spotted the alleged child abductor grabbing one of the girls outside their apartment.
A 23-year-old woman is facing a manslaughter charge after police say she left her disabled 8-year-old daughter home alone Sunday before firefighters found the girl floating unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub, according to court documents.
Major Crimes detectives are investigating after a 7-year-old boy unexpectedly died Friday at a Spokane Valley home.
A 63-year-old British Columbia woman crashed a motorcycle and died after going off the road on a curve Sunday, 23 miles east of Republic.
A former Pasco police officer will stay in prison after he failed to convince an appeals court that he was wrongly convicted of premeditated murder.
A fire at a Liberty Lake apartment complex Thursday night displaced at least 20 people.
John Leonard Orr never thought he would get caught. The fire captain taught fire investigation classes, appeared on local TV whenever a fire broke out and was considered to be one of the best arson investigators in all of Southern California.
. Since the start of 2025, 384 brush fires have been reported within the city limits of Spokane, according to Spokane Fire Department data. Dozens of other fires were ignited in the county.