A Tuesday order from President Donald Trump that froze federal funding to assess diversity programs and organizations that ...

Spokane County Fire District 9 welcomed a new fire chief to the team on Tuesday coming from western Washington.

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. – Local agencies are grappling with the implications of a federal funding freeze ordered by the White ...

The commissioner says there is no evidence that insurance companies are abandoning policyholders in high-risk areas of Washington.

Hilary Franz served as Washington’s wildfire chief and commissioner of public lands from 2017-2025.

The Department of Natural Resources says our driest January in decades already increases our fire risks. The state's public ...

Spokane County signaled Tuesday that not all is lost after its dispatch network kicked the city of Spokane from its regional ...

Eric Wood will go to work Monday, Feb. 3, at the Walla Walla Fire Department, just as he has for the past 21 years. However, ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, WA – Wildfires in urban areas are becoming more common, with devastating events occurring across the country in recent years, from Texas to Maui, and right here in Spokane County.

Allowing duplexes and triplexes in single-family neighborhoods doesn't increase housing supply much. But it does give people ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, WA – Spokane County has been awarded $44 million in federal funding to assist with recovery from the Oregon Road and Gray wildfires that devastated the region in 2023.