Patrick Striker, executive director of Spokane Community Oriented Policing, known here more generally as Spokane COPS, says a challenge he sees facing the 25-year-old nonprofit-and others like it-is balancing its past successes with more recent and em

The city of Airway Heights is set to begin construction this fall on its planned community recreation center. Plans for the project, which is being funded through a $13 million bond approved by voters last August, call for the construction of a two-story

The Spokane Tribe of Indians is laying the ground for its next ambitious step on the West Plains-developing a 155-acre 'green” industrial park to support its goal of creating its own utility company that would generate and distribute solar energy.

The future of the film industry here looks bright, and the dead are still very much alive in the Spokane area, as crews begin shooting the fourth season of Z Nation, a show on the Syfy television network. The show, which began production for the new sea

With cases of elder financial fraud on the rise, Edward D. Jones & Co., one of the nation's leading suppliers of financial services for individual investors, sent 85 employee volunteers to Washington, D.C., last month to meet with legislators to discuss

A small group of Tekoa-based boosters of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail hope a tentative agreement they've reached with owners of farmland between their town and the North Idaho town of Plummer will connect a three-state network of rail trails. The group

City of Spokane officials are reaching out to community organizations and residents this month to gather input about housing quality in the city. Three public meetings have been held in June to review recommendations offered by Mayor David Condon's Hou