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A 69-year-old man who initially denied setting fire to his Spokane Valley home earlier this month admitted last week to starting the blaze because he got paranoid from using methamphetamine, according to court documents.
A psychopath and serial rapist who spent time in Washington’s most notorious correctional facilities recently took up residence in Spokane County.
The human remains of Jason Anderson, who went missing in 2024 when he was 24 , were discovered by dogs last month in a remote area of northern Stevens County.
Burn restrictions across Spokane County were lifted Friday in agreement with area fire chiefs, the county announced in a news release.
Police on Friday swarmed Lewis and Clark High School in an effort to find a student reported to have a gun.
A man who was sentenced to stay at Eastern State Hospital for the 2021 shooting of his wife and stepdaughter is facing a felony assault charge after he was accused of punching a doctor in the face at the psychiatric hospital, according to court documents.
A 62-year-old Spokane man with a previous arson conviction was sentenced this week to three months in jail for lighting a fire during a red flag warning in August that burned “multiple acres” and forced evacuations on the edge of Hillyard.
Spokane County Prosecutor Preston McCollam has directed investigators to reopen the probe into the fatal police shooting of 29-year-old Joshua Musselman.
A 19-year-old man is accused of shooting a 47-year-old man in the foot in an alleged drive-by shooting Tuesday in West Central Spokane.
A Spokane man was sentenced to nine months of electronic home monitoring after a jury found he had been using numerous security cameras to watch his estranged wife and their children in her new home.
Investigators are searching for an SUV they believe struck a pedestrian on Oct. 7.
Fatimah Alghazwi’s 7-year-old son was placed in a Child Protective Services van the night of Feb. 9, 2023.
The metallic clatter of wind chimes resonated across Jason Steege’s wraparound concrete porch as he recalled the day his home burned to the ground.
A woman found in July decomposing in a West Central apartment closet died of a methamphetamine and fentanyl overdose, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office.
For Brad Johnson, the moment that changed his understanding of child exploitation happened while he was still a young patrol officer.
Spokane Valley fire investigators believe a man burned down his mobile home during a mental health crisis Monday morning.
A 15-year-old boy with nine prior felony convictions, including an incident where he shot and paralyzed his friend, was sentenced Thursday to at least four years of detention for shooting at a couple this summer in Spokane.
A Coeur d’Alene woman who used her position at a Spokane Valley manufacturer to steal more than $1 million from her employer, then gambled away most of the money at a North Idaho casino, will spend 33 months in federal prison and must repay the money.
The founder of the Whatcom County-based nonprofit Pittie Project PNW has been charged with 30 counts of animal cruelty after investigators found evidence of abuse of dogs in her care. A warrant has been signed for her arrest.
Two human-caused brush fires broke out Tuesday night at High Bridge Park near Latah Creek.
Two Sacajawea Middle School students were hit by a car on their walk to school and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Wednesday morning at a busy intersection a few blocks from the school, according to officials.
Spokane police arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing and killing a person Tuesday evening near the Safeway store in the Logan Neighborhood.
A trial highlighted by a defendant’s verbal outbursts and his short-lived attempt to represent himself ended Tuesday when a jury convicted him of first-degree murder.
A fire damaged a South Hill doughnut shop late Monday. Firefighters were called to the area north of 14th Street and Grand Boulevard around 10:50 p.m. to investigate smoke, said Justin de Ruyter, Spokane Fire Department spokesman.
Investigators were unable to determine the cause of the Upriver fire in June that ripped through Camp Sekani, destroyed 14 homes and killed a woman, according to Spokane County Fire District 9’s Fire Investigation Report.
Coeur d’Alene Police believe a woman killed her boyfriend and then turned the gun on herself Sunday, the department said in a news release Monday afternoon.
An 86-year-old Fernwood, Idaho, man was killed Friday after he tried to drive around a pickup and collided head-on with a semitruck on state Highway 3 south of St. Maries.
A fire district in Spokane County hit hard by many major fires this year is asking voters for a levy and a bond to upgrade service, vehicles and stations.
Though the stabbings of four University of Idaho students happened nearly four years ago, the relentless public records requests from true crime content creators and other people across the U.S. asking for crime scene photos and intimate communication is still wreaking emotional havoc for the victims’ families.
A 58-year-old woman has been identified as the person who died earlier this week in a downtown Spokane motel fire.
Spokane County Fire District 11, which covers the 70 square miles surrounding the small southern Spokane County town of Rockford, is asking voters to renew a six-year emergency medical services levy on the November ballot.
A person died in a house fire Monday morning in North Idaho. Northside Fire District, two Selkirk Fire District stations and Sandpoint Fire Department were dispatched about 3:30 a.m. to North Kootenai Road for a reported structure fire, according to a Northside Fire District news release. While responding, the…
A Lummi Nation man pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle on Thursday to illegally shooting two bald eagles on the Lummi Reservation last year, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
A parent mistakenly brought a gun onto Brentwood Elementary School’s campus Thursday morning, according to the Mead School District.
A 75-year-old man who went missing Monday in Spokane has been located safe, according to a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office news release.
A Seattle man and Stevens County woman were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday, 4 miles south of Chewelah.
Spokane Valley fire investigators determined improperly discarded cigarettes caused fires at Spokane Valley and Liberty Lake apartment complexes this summer that displaced 88 residents.
Editor’s note: Buchholtz was found safe, the sheriff’s office reported Thursday.
A disabled smoke alarm “likely contributed” to the death of a woman Tuesday at a downtown Spokane motel, according to the Spokane Fire Department.
A 37-year-old Bonners Ferry, Idaho, man is accused of shooting at his ex-wife Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene before being arrested in Boundary County.
Combative behavior, outbursts and contradicting narratives on Wednesday riddled an ongoing murder trial of a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death.
A woman is dead from a motel fire and a suspected arsonist is in jail for another blaze that displaced nearly a dozen residents after the two fires broke out on the same block within 10 hours of each other Tuesday morning on the west end of downtown Spokane.
A Spokane man is suspected of using the dark web to ship thousands of cocaine parcels to people in all 50 states and several countries during the last four years.
A 20-year-old driver died and a 21-year-old passenger is in critical condition after the pickup truck they were in went down an embankment Sunday in North Idaho near the Canadian border.
Minutes before Joshua Paine was gunned down by a complete stranger two years ago in the Garland District, his wife, Leslie Paine, shared a cup of coffee with him and kissed him goodbye like any other morning.
The CEO of a company in charge of managing health care payment contracts for a pool of clinics in the Pacific Northwest was sentenced to four years in federal prison after he was found guilty of embezzling approximately $30 million over the course of six years.
A vehicle fell from the third floor of the Coeur d’Alene Resort parking garage and landed on its roof, causing minor injuries to the two occupants of the car.
The 8-year-old girl who was found unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub over the weekend has been identified by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office as Ky’Liana Johnson.
A 49-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed Thursday morning near Camelot Park in north Spokane.
A man is accused of crashing into a car and power pole before slamming into the Spokane Housing Authority building, causing extensive damage that shuttered the building for the week.
A man pulled out a gun while arguing with a motorcycle rider in a small town north of Leavenworth. He then lost his weapon to the other man, who shot him in the leg, according to the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office.
A 30-year-old man died after an explosion inside his vehicle last week in the Chief Garry Park Neighborhood.
Eight firefighters were injured while putting out a house fire in Lake City on Thursday morning, the Seattle Fire Department said.
An adult California sea lion lies dead at the mouth of Duwamish River in West Seattle, killed after it was shot at least a dozen times, an expert said.
A “swatting” call sent Lake City High School into lockdown early Wednesday afternoon after police received a report of a male with guns and a bomb in the school parking lot.
The chief of police in Odessa filed a lawsuit on Friday against the city of Airway Heights that claims she was repeatedly harassed by a superior for being “a woman working as a police officer” during her time with the city.
A 7-year-old boy who unexpectedly died last week at a Spokane Valley home was identified by the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office as Evan Leeper.
A man and woman were shot with one round in the early morning hours Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene.
A Spokane judge on Wednesday chose not to declare a mistrial in the case of a man who attempted to represent himself in a trial where he is accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend.
BOISE – Idaho law enforcement believe a man found dead after poisoning himself in a Boise church 44 years ago could have a connection to the 1982 Tylenol killings, an unsolved string of homicides that roiled the nation and changed the way consumers open over-the-counter pill bottles to this day.
A Spokane man on trial for strangling and stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death three and a half years ago entered Tuesday’s proceedings representing himself.
A 40-year-old woman is accused of kidnapping two young girls whose mother spotted the alleged child abductor grabbing one of the girls outside their apartment.
A 23-year-old woman is facing a manslaughter charge after police say she left her disabled 8-year-old daughter home alone Sunday before firefighters found the girl floating unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub, according to court documents.
Major Crimes detectives are investigating after a 7-year-old boy unexpectedly died Friday at a Spokane Valley home.
A 63-year-old British Columbia woman crashed a motorcycle and died after going off the road on a curve Sunday, 23 miles east of Republic.
A former Pasco police officer will stay in prison after he failed to convince an appeals court that he was wrongly convicted of premeditated murder.
A fire at a Liberty Lake apartment complex Thursday night displaced at least 20 people.
John Leonard Orr never thought he would get caught. The fire captain taught fire investigation classes, appeared on local TV whenever a fire broke out and was considered to be one of the best arson investigators in all of Southern California.
. Since the start of 2025, 384 brush fires have been reported within the city limits of Spokane, according to Spokane Fire Department data. Dozens of other fires were ignited in the county.