The Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) confirmed on Wednesday that a child under the age of 5 died in November 2024 and said that the death is the first caused by pertussis (whooping cough ...

A bat tested positive for rabies in Spokane County. According to the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD), someone told them they were exposed to the bat. SRHD submitted the bat for rabies testing.

who was the health officer at Spokane Regional Health District when the pandemic started. "We were getting information from just a lot of different sources. You know, you were hearing about what ...

If approved, the proposal would provide $350,000 “to expand medication-assisted treatment at the Spokane Regional Health District’s clinic,” $500,000 for additional sobering beds at Spokane ...

As the measles outbreak in Texas continues to gro County's vaccination rate remains below what is needed to prevent an outbreak. More than 95% of kindergarten-age children need to have two doses of ...

Head Start programs across the Northwest are grappling with uncertainty following the abrupt closure of the regional office that served Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska.

April 11-17 is Black Maternal Health Week and a local organization is working to help Black women give birth more safely.

Pioneering former Washington Secretary of Health Mary Selecky died earlier this week at age 78. The Eastern Washingtonian is credited with drastically cutting the rate of smoking and increasing the ...

The public building that houses the Spokane Regional Health District should be considered an achievement of the Mid-Century Modern movement in architecture, but the 1977 strucuture has often been ...