Spokane News

SPOKANE, Wash It doesn't take too long to find in any population center graffiti sprayed on walls, buildings, and in alleys.

Spokane Police say just after 4:00pm Monday afternoon they were called to the Riverfront Park fountain for a belligerent male who was pounding on the roof of a security car.

A level three sex offender is being released in the Colville area. The Stevens County Sheriff's Office said Terry L. Thomas is a transient.

An armed robbery held the Community Health Association of Spokane near 10th and Pines on Monday.

A Spokane, Washington-area woman says she was forced to quit her job as a hair salon supervisor after her boss told her to cover her shaved head while at work.

Police say a Phoenix bus driver was caught on cellphone video repeatedly punching a passenger and slamming the man's head against a bench.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Although the first transcontinental railroad connected through Spokane in 1882, north-south travel was still laborious and slow, by saddle or in wagons, for long trips to places like Colville and Northport.

After a little morning cloud cover left over from a weakening band of showers, it should turn into a zesty, mostly sunny to partly cloudy day.

Officials in Cavanaugh Bay in Coolin, Idaho have confirmed with KHQ that a single-engine plane overshot the runway at the Cavanaugh Bay Airport.

Does Dad have a drawer full of neckties and countless bottles of cologne he will never use? How about those same sets ofscrewdrivers from all the children? A pet peeve on holidays like Father's Day can be commercialism.

A Spokane pet adoption center will fill a new space on Trent and Bradley. Scraps will occupy an old Harley-Davidson dealership's 30,000 square foot building.

How Did Father's Day Begin? The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wa., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

A couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on Saturday, June 15. Gerry and Emmy Schmidt married in 1943.

The average fan attendance for each game is between 4,700 and 4,800. Every year the Spokane Indians draw on average 180,000 fans.

Some firefighters battling a massive structure fire on Hamilton Saturday afternoon had to be diverted to another fire in east central Spokane near 2nd and Helena.

Police investigating a theft ring in Spokane recovered Chief Frank Straub's bicycle after it was stolen from his garage last month.

Early Saturday morning at 12:45 A.M., the Spokane Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire in the 300 block of W. Nora.

A once-popular model of fatherhood was wise and low-key Andy Taylor of the "Andy Griffith Show;" now we have hyperactive Phil Dunphy of "Modern Family'."

Jacob Landis, a 24- year- old who was once deaf, received a cochlear implant at the age of ten that changed his life completely.

Saturday: The start to a beautiful weekend, with plenty of sunshine and temps that are on the rise.