In most ways, the former Umpqua Bank building at the corner of Wall and Riverside is a monument to law and order. A red metal sign screwed to the brick wall declares that "sitting or lying near or ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane City Council voted Monday evening to override Mayor Nadine Woodward's veto of an ordinance that prohibits the use of devices that emit high-frequency sound, known as mosquito ...

It's not true that only the pure of heart can hear the "mosquito" devices, the urban deterrence noisemakers that the Spokane City Council banned in a 4-3 vote on Monday evening. But since the devices ...

Kyler Kostelec, 15, white shirt sitting and his girlfriend Galina Hensz, 16, second from right, hang out with friends at “the planter,” a popular spot for homeless youth to hang out downtown on Aug.

SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane City Council has overridden a veto from Mayor Nadine Woodward on an ordinance prohibiting the use of 'mosquito' devices. Originally, the council voted 4-3 rejecting the ...

SPOKANE — The Spokane City Council was to vote Monday on a law that would ban devices that emit a high-pitched sound to discourage loiterers in the city’s downtown. City Councilwoman Kate Burke, who ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Sept. 1 (UPI) --A New Zealand library is testing an unusual method to deter fight-happy teenagers from loitering -- a sonic device designed to repel mosquitoes. Christchurch ...