Spokane County News

Adriana Lytle, the 33-year-old stepmother accused in the torture death of 4-year-old Summer Phelps, pleaded guilty Monday morning to a charge of homicide by abuse.

Adriana Lytle, the 33-year-old stepmother accused in the torture death of 4-year-old Summer Phelps, pleaded guilty Monday morning to a charge of homicide by abuse.

It was one week ago that the Valley View Fire burned its way through 11 homes. It is now 90 percent contained and the repair work has begun.

Voters must wait until next year to have their say on a new jail complex that could cost taxpayers $245 million.

Today, detectives from the Stevens County Sheriff's Office arrested 42-year-old Preston Lee Rogers on a charge of Murder in the 1st degree.

A wildfire that destroyed 11 Spokane Valley homes last week grew out of an illegal recreational fire that a local surgeon supervised three days earlier on her neighbor's vacant lot, investigators say.

One man is dead and a woman was seriously injured when their motorcycle crashed near south Spokane on Thursday night.

A judge has denied a change of venue for the upcoming Kevin Coe civil commitment trial.

Two women were found dead Wednesday night in a fire-gutted Spokane Valley trailer.

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A mobile home located in southwest Spokane County was destroyed by fire this morning, leaving a man and his daughter homeless.

Winds continue to fuel a fast-moving wildfire burning in the Dishman Hills area in the Spokane Valley where emergency officials confirm at least eight homes have been destroyed.

The Valley View Fire, which has burned 1,000 acres in the Dishman Hills and burned 13 homes, was started by a recreational fire in a backyard that was rekindled by Thursday's strong winds.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency today authorized the use of federal funds to help Washington State fight the Spokane Valley Fire, burning in Spokane County.

A wildfire fanned by winds gusting to 50 mph destroyed at least eight homes in a heavily wooded suburban area, and officials said Friday the number could go higher.

Firefighters renewed the battle at daybreak against wildfires that have destroyed eight homes in Spokane Valley and burned thousands of acres in other parts of Eastern Washington.

A man accused of killing a Spokane Valley teenager in November last year is scheduled to reach a plea deal with Spokane County prosecutors on Wednesday.

King County prosecutors have charged two men with first-degree robbery and attempting to elude police in the wake of a West Seattle bank robbery that ended with a cross-city car chase and gunfire.

A female sex offender who was released from prison last month is wanted by officials in Mason County for failing to register.

A trial is scheduled Sept. 15 in Spokane County Superior Court to determine whether Kevin Coe should be committed indefinitely as a sex predator.