I was disappointed, but not surprised, to see that you had endorsed Todd Mielke for District 1 Spokane County commissioner. I know John Roskelley personally, and know him to possess excellent ...

Jan. 11, 2018 Updated Fri., Jan. 12, 2018 at 9:01 a.m. FILE - John Roskelley, former Spokane County commissioner and noted mountaineer, speaks to the media about the objections of environmentalists to ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - It's been a controversial start to the campaign to become Spokane County District One County Commissioner, but on Wednesday the Chelan County Auditor stepped in and ruled that ...

John Roskelley of Spokane, one of the world’s premier mountaineers in the 1960s, ’70s and ‘80s, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Piolet d’Or in Chamonix, France, in late March 2014.

John Roskelley – international mountaineer, author and environmentalist – wants to return to the job he held for nearly a decade as Spokane County Commissioner. Roskelley, a Democrat, held the ...

Former Spokane County Commissioner John Roskelley said Thursday he’s ready to take his old job back. Roskelley, a Democrat, announced this week that he is running for county commissioner in District 1 ...

In the minutes, days and weeks after Jess Roskelley, David Lama and Hansjorg Auer died descending Howse Peak last year, what exactly happened wasn’t known. That’s no longer the case. Over the past ...

It's hard to think of John Roskelley being old enough to publish his memoirs (of sort). After all, the Spokane mountaineer still climbs at a very high level (when he wants) and still is fit and active ...

It was the summer of 1967 and John Roskelley was just a teenager on his way back home from a construction job in Winthrop, Washington, when he and a friend hitched a ride with a car full of young ...