Kip Hill

A 24-year-old Spokane man was booked into Kootenai County Jail on impaired driving charges after a two-car crash late Friday that shut down Interstate 90 near Cataldo for several hours. 

The Broadway Diner, through its many iterations, has been serving up hot food and coffee, 24 hours a day, since the early days of Interstate 90 bisecting Spokane and creating a throughway for freight and hungry drivers. Don Alsaker, along with partner Charles Williams, bought the truck stop in 1963 and opened the restaurant that year. 

James T. Henrikson, 44, is serving two life sentences at a high-security federal prison in California after his 2016 conviction on 11 charges tied to the deaths of Doug Carlile and Kristopher "K.C." Clarke. In April, Henrikson filed his own petition asking that his sentencing be revisited because four of the charges were solicitation to commit murder for hire, and that another federal murder-for-hire case decided in December determined that in order to be guilty of that crime the target had to be killed. 

A line formed east along Indiana Avenue on Wednesday morning, families forming up as misters provided some relief from heat that was already settling in. Swoop, the mascot for Eastern Washington University, and mascots Shield Boy and Kettle Man from the Salvation Army offered high-fives and fistbumps to waiting youngsters. 

George Alex, whose mother, Mary Gianetsas, famously refused an offer from Sister Peter Claver to sell her home to the hospital in the late 1960s, confirmed on Tuesday interest from Diamond Parking in acquiring the land.

Paul Hamilton sold insurance out of his office on the main drag of Hillyard, but it wasn't the main commodity he offered.

Developer Larry Stone’s newest “film to help Spokane,” released earlier this week, opens to melancholic piano music and a junkyard filled with broken cars, followed by two sedans pressed by a hydraulic crusher .

Many won't hit it Tuesday night when Mega Millions draws another winning ticket for its potential record-breaking jackpot, estimated at $1.5 billion. The numbers on the light-up display above Sonnenberg's counter only show the potential winnings in millions, which means that "999" isn't entirely accurate.