Nick Gibson

The Spokane County Commissioners adopted a 2025 budget last week that's smaller than in years past, despite increased investments in the criminal justice system, mental health services and capital improvement projects.

Congressmen-elect Michael Baumgartner has tapped longtime state Sen. Mike Padden to advise him in his new role.

By all accounts, Chatterbox was dead.

The narrow passage of a statewide initiative intended to enshrine natural gas use in Washington has sparked an old West standoff – but the involved parties are dueling with legal filings rather than h ...Thank you for visiting Spokesman.com. To continue reading this story and enjoying our local journalism please subscribe or log in...

Spokane police and county prosecutors may soon receive some reinforcements in combating retail crime.

Spokane County appears to be severing ties with a controversial medical provider responsible for the care of county inmates for nearly a decade.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has recorded thousands of hours of footage captured by its deputies’ body-worn cameras, making it nearly impossible for the agency to review every traffic stop, welfare check or response to a crime scene.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is one of a number of agencies statewide and across the country turning to artificial intelligence and researchers to review to what Sheriff John Nowels referred ‘as law enforcement’s single largest data set: body camera footage.

Dec. 18—The New Year could bring a new medical services provider to the Spokane County Jail. The Spokane County Commission will decide Tuesday whether to grant a one-month, $685,000 contract extension to NaphCare, the private contractor that provides medical services in the Spokane County Jail. Ken Mohr, a project manager for the county, said during a Monday meeting that the extension will ...

Outside of Cat Nichols' office is a framed graphite drawing of an old European town square.