Hospitals in Spokane continued to bleed tens of millions of dollars last year – even as the losses slowed from those of 2023.

Spokane has had the only Chili's restaurant in Washington for the past five years. Thanks to social media, fans find it.

The nonprofit is asking city council to expand access to legal defense services and educate staff on a state law that prohibits police from collaborating with ICE.

County officials say they currently have over $100M in federal grants and local nonprofit World Relief Spokane says 85% of their funding is federal.

A Tuesday order from President Donald Trump that froze federal funding to assess diversity programs and organizations that don't adhere to his plans also froze funding for integral wildfire prevention programs around Washington.

Pointing to a presidential administration that has vowed to enact mass deportations, local nonprofit Latinos En Spokane has asked the city to affirm state sanctuary laws and to find money to support immigrant legal defense services.

Sometime after he moved to Seattle, Souma Mondal began hankering for Chili's. A Google search, however, turned up distressing news: the closest location was 4 1/2 hours away — in Spokane. Last November,

Spokane was an early adopter of the electric streetcar in the United States, just eight years after Berlin, Germany, began the first-ever

Glen Dylan Burkey, wanted in connection with the shooting death of a teenager in Spokane, Washington, was arrested by police in Missoula on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A boat contaminated with 21 gallons of invasive mussels was intercepted at a Spokane watercraft inspection site on Jan. 7. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, two tugboats were found to be contaminated at the inspection site.

School districts across eastern Washington are putting plans in place to protect students with undocumented status, one week into President Trump's Administration.

Most Chili’s closed in Washington and Oregon in 2008. The last Oregon restaurant closed in 2015, and the Spokane location has been the only one in Washington for the past five years.