Flashing lights outside Harvest Foods in Spokane Valley today were not cause for alarm. Instead, Spokane County Sheriff's ...

Last month, the county paid its largest settlement ever for an in-custody death — $16 million to the family of Hayden Schuck, ...

Spartanburg County Sheriff Bill Rhyne, who took office on Nov. 7, received a pay increase at the Nov. 17 county council meeting.

Morgan County deputies and correctional officers will see pay increases after the commission approved raises to address ...

The race for California governor features former presidential wannabes, a county sheriff, two women who could become the ...

Garry McFadden, a charismatic and opinionated detective-turned-TV personality, was elected sheriff of North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County years ago after promising that he’d limit the jail’s cooperati ...

Here’s a major reason our local governments can’t have nice things, like adequate police staffing: Despite all the bridge traffic and bad things about Portland, we still love to shop in Oregon.

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain ...

The county says garbage rates will increase by 4% and yard waste by 10% to cover rising costs for waste disposal and ...

A North Idaho hospital and a major Idaho health insurer are struggling to renegotiate a contract to keep the hospital in ...