Will Campbell

Three lanes of traffic were shut down and emergency crews guided cars through an emergency lane, causing a large traffic jam on eastbound I-90 through downtown Spokane.

Police arrested a man accused of filming women in a changing stall at Hut 8 clothing store in north Spokane on Tuesday.

Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell on Wednesday cleared a Spokane police officer who shot and killed a Spokane man last January, but the man’s family vowed to sue, claiming the investigation was flawed.

Firefighters have mostly contained the Williams Flats Fire, which had burned 44,515 acres on the Colville Indian Reservation as of Wednesday, making it the largest wildfire in the state this year.

A one-car crash and downed power lines on State Route 27 south of Spokane temporarily shut down the highway on Tuesday. No one was injured and the highway re-opened just before 1 p.m., according to a tweet from Spokane County Fire District 8.

A man is in serious condition in the hospital after he was shot in Harmon Park in the Hillyard neighborhood Monday night. Police have not arrested any suspects.

When Nick Mamer and Art Walker touched down at Felts Field in Spokane Valley on Aug. 20, 1929, they had just set become the first pilots to complete a non-stop transcontinental flight and had set a world record for longest non-stop flight. On Saturday, three local pilots celebrated that achievement with flights of their own.

Charlie Lentz, 5, looked at a stamp on Saturday of a man kicking a ball. “You know what sport that is?” said Janet Jorgensen, a representative of a German booth at the 25th-annual Unity in the Community, a free cultural event held Saturday at Riverfront Park.