Woman who set multiple fires along Centennial Trail in Spokane Valley sentenced to community custody

Sara Beal was sentenced to serve 24 months in community custody after lawyers suggested the alternative to prison time due to ...

Community group releases report on Spokane homelessness services

The "Safe and Healthy Spokane Task Force" released a report that aims to identify gaps in services in an effort to develop ...
Opinion

Lisa Brown and Brian G. Henning: Trump administration abandons community climate efforts, but the work will go on

By Lisa Brown and Brian G. Henning. In 2021, Spokane was thrust into a new climate reality. A heat dome settled over our region, shattering temperature records and claiming the li ...

The Latest: ICE officer who shot Renee Good identified in court records as Jonathan Ross

A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she ...

Beyond Minnesota, Social Media Fuels False Rumors of Fraud Among Somalis

The Ohio governor is once again trying to counter misinformation about immigrants, more than a year after baseless claims ...
The Pacific Northwest Inlander

In the mid-1970s, a newly formed nuclear emergency response team descended on Spokane following a hushed-up dirty bomb threat

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...
Opinion

At dad’s campaign event, Bajun Mavalwalla II makes first public statement following arrest related to June anti-ICE protest

Bajun Mavalwalla II, one of the nine people arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy following the June 11 anti-ICE protest in Spokane and one of four who have not entered a guilty plea, made his ...

After the LA fires, false narratives on social media impacted state policy

Misinformation spread quickly after the wildfires in Los Angeles last year. Some of these false narratives on social media had an impact on California policy.

After Minnesota, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine fights back against claims of child care fraud

Accusations of benefits fraud has spread from Minnesota to Ohio, where the Republican governor is trying to fight back with ...