Spokane County News

Darren McMIllin looks at forms that tell him the type of wire bundle to assemble on Feb.

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - A man who practices law took the law into his own hands this week, tackling and pinning a prolific car prowling suspect until police could arrive.

Police said Saturday that they are looking for a 22-year-old man who is a "person of interest" in the deaths of a woman and two children whose bodies were found in a home in north Spokane.

Spokane County Raceway Park is getting a new managing partner who promised on Friday to bring changes to the controversial venue.

The 2012 Spokane International Auto Show is taking place today through Sunday the 12th at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center located at 404 N Havana, Spokane.

A Deer Park man has been charged with aggravated first-degree murder and sexually violating human remains in the death of his ex-wife. Spokane County prosecutors brought the charges Thursday against 47-year-old Duane Starbuck in the death of his 42-year-old wife Chanin Starbuck.

A deputy tried to pull over a man around 6:30 p.m. for failing to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of North Atlantic Road and West Lyons Avenue.

Spokane County's recycle rate already outdoes the rest of the state, but now employees at a Spokane Valley business are taking steps to recycle more.

Cheney Police Officer Dave Bailey crosses at the corner of First and A streets in last week's second portion of a crosswalk emphasis patrol being conducted this month in the city.

This artist's rendering shows the layout of the proposed Geiger Corrections Center site along South Geiger Boulevard and West Plains Drive.

An initiative seeking to legalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana will be decided by voters, Washington state lawmakers said Thursday.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A Deer Park woman's phone call to 9-1-1 may not have saved her life but it did give detectives one of their best clues to the identity of Chanin Starbuck's killer.

In our new online collaboration with KHQ, Spokesman-Review online producer Alison Boggs talks with NewsBreak's Dave Cotton about our yearlong series "The Road Ahead," looking at jobs and the changing economy in the Inland Northwest.

That break in protocol was made by a long-term 911 call taker, according to a Spokane County news release.

Spokane County commissioners are pushing to get new land-use regulations in place around Fairchild Air Force Base by spring to show the Pentagon they are sincere about protecting Fairchild from civilian encroachment.

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - On January 27, 2012, Spokane Valley Police responded to a Burglary at East Valley School District's maintenance office located on the 18000 block of East Euclid Rd.

Cats look out of carriers stacked in a SpokAnimal van Wednesday outside a home in Hillyard.

Three sanitation workers found it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march: a nest of wires in a backpack.

One Spokane County group is taking their message to the airwaves just before the special election.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SPOKANE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Investigation into the December homicide of a Deer Park woman has revealed that a call to the 911 communications center from the victim's cellular phone was not forwarded to the sheriff's office for investigation.