Spokane WA

Tens of thousands of people have walked through the doors of Northwest Seed & Pet’s store on East Sprague since it opened its doors in 1944. Plenty of its employees have worked there for over a decade, and loyal customers keep coming back time and time again, but no one knows the lay of the land quite like Gertrude,...

A therapy animal, Instagram star, and product tester. A customer greeter who’s also been lovingly dubbed the laziest employee on staff. Global Neighborhood Thrift & Vintage’s resident cat Smudge has many roles. For nearly all of his three years, the green-eyed, gray-and-white feline with a smudge of gray...

SPOKANE, Wash. — On Monday morning, community members gathered for a memorial service hosted by CHAS Health to honor those who died while facing homelessness in Spokane. People gathered at the Denny Murphy Clinic in downtown Spokane, and organizers and attendees say they hope the lives aren't forgotten. Steaphan...

SPOKANE, Wash. – A significant law enforcement presence was observed in North Spokane on Tuesday night as a SWAT standoff took place near East Lyons Avenue and North Nevada Street. NonStop Local personnel reported from the scene that police had established a perimeter around an apartment complex close to...

KING COUNTY, Wash. -- Spokane County's swiftwater rescue team has been deployed to King County to help with ongoing flood rescue efforts.

While many use marijuana for managing chronic pain or as a way to unwind at the end of the day, according to UW Medicine, over the last decade there have been more and more regular cannabis users coming into emergency departments with abdominal pain and severe, prolonged vomiting. It wasn’t...

When you think of hospital food, does your stomach start rumbling?. Most would envision a tray of bland items like a bread roll, mashed potatoes, some sort of steamed veggies and a protein cooked bone dry. Aiming to defy these expectations and raise the standards for what hospital food should...

When Wonton, one of Red Dragon’s beloved patio cats, disappeared years ago for six weeks, restaurant co-owner Will Burris and manager Molly Hart were distraught. Later, the chubby black stray with a folded eyelid (a condition called entropion) reappeared, but he’d lost a few pounds, had evidently been neutered and...

TONASKET, Wash. - A man died on December 19 in a police shooting around 17 miles northeast of Tonasket, according to a joint press release from the North Central Washington Special Investigation Unit (NCWSIU). According to the release, the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group and Washington State Patrol...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The start of the new year will bring some service changes to certain Spokane Transit Authority bus routes.