Spokane WA

SPOKANE, Wash - Happy Hoopfest Sunday! How are your knees? If you're heading to downtown Spokane today, here's what's happening.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Hoopfest is set to bring nearly 250,000 people to the streets of downtown Spokane this weekend. With such a large crowd expected, local law enforcement is concentrating on preventing impaired driving. Two years ago, a DUI driver drove into the actual event, highlighting the importance of...

A 42-year-old Spokane woman is dead and a Thurston County man is facing a potential charge of vehicular homicide after a vehicle struck a pedestrian in Olympia early Saturday morning. 

SPOKANE, Wash. – The Spokane City Council is set to discuss an ordinance that would allow the Spokane Police Department to invest in its own explosives detection K-9. The decision will be made during the council meeting on June 30. According to the ordinance getting explosive detection canine is...

Jun. 21 — Ray Kresek has been struck by lightning three times. He’s watched colleagues die in fires. He saw a plane knock down a fire with dish soap. And he was among responders who pulled the bodies of 44 Air Force members from a plane crash. As...

Spokane, Washington – A dangerous stretch of extreme heat will grip eastern Washington and north Idaho starting Monday morning, with Spokane and surrounding cities expected to see temperatures soar into the upper 90s and low 100s through Tuesday night. According to the National Weather Service in Spokane, a Heat...

SPOKANE, WA – Spokane Police have arrested the mother of a man accused in the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Gavin Looper. Becky A. Gibbs, 49, was taken into custody on June 26, 2025, for first-degree rendering criminal

SPOKANE, Wash. — Food insecurity is rising in Spokane County for the first time in years. According to new data collected by Spokane County, around 13% of people living in Spokane County faced food insecurity from 2018 to 2022, up from 10% from 2017 to 2021. The rate of...

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The City of Spokane will go ahead with creating its own emergency communications system. The announcement came after the Spokane Regional Emergency Communications Board voted Thursday to end its contract for dispatch services with the Spokane Fire Department. The city and county had spent nearly 18 months negotiating...