Crime/Public Safety

A 36-year-old Airway Heights woman will serve 30 years in prison for abusing and killing her adopted 8-year-old daughter, if a judge follows a plea agreement she reached with prosecutors.

A woman killed last week in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 95 north of Moscow, Idaho, was identified by the Latah County coroner as 69-year-old Deirdre Krigbaum, of Palouse, Washington.

Over $17,000 worth of stolen property has been recovered by Spokane County law enforcement after a series of construction site burglaries were reported throughout the county.

The Spokane County medical examiner axed its contract to provide autopsies for Kootenai County, according to documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review.

Kootenai County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Spokane man Saturday night after he allegedly threatened family members, prompting a SWAT standoff in a Post Falls house.

Of the 11 homicides in Spokane city limits last year, the first one of 2025 hit Spokane Police Lt. Nate Spiering the hardest.

El Ranchito in Nine Mile Falls recently closed, but a new restaurant had been planning to open in the location.

Human remains discovered last month in the Colfax area have been identified as Michael Shawn Garcia, who had been missing nearly a decade, according to the Colfax Police Department.

A Bonner County resident was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing his grandfather.

An adult man was hit and killed by a vehicle near Airway Heights' Centre Place early Wednesday morning.

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris temporarily restored the special deputy status of Coeur d’Alene Police leaders just days after revoking it in an act of alleged “retaliatory” behavior, according to documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review.

A Mead School District bus struck and killed a woman crossing the street Monday evening.

A 39-year-old woman is back in jail after failing to appear in court for a vehicular homicide case where she is accused of driving over 80 mph on the South Hill, running a red light and slamming into a car, killing a 79-year-old woman who worked four decades for Spokane Public Schools.

A body of a man pulled in November from the Spokane River near T.J. Meenach Bridge drowned, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday.

Ten people were displaced from their homes after a Spokane Valley fire that started in a shed spread to three mobile homes.

A 38-year-old man is accused of brandishing a knife and threatening to stab people after driving impaired and crashing with his young son in the car early in the morning on New Year’s Day, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

It’s been nearly six months of heartbreak and sheer difficulty since Erick Doxey’s wife of 20 years was hit and killed by a 17-year-old drunken driver on the South Hill.