If this warm weather has you thinking about getting outside and lighting up the campfire, there are rules you need to follow to avoid a fine or something worse. The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency is outlining the rules and regulations for the season.

"As the weather improves the number of reports we receive about illegal outdoor fires increases. We want people to know and follow the rules related to recreational fires," said Lisa Woodard, Spokane Clean Air. "The rules are in place to ensure safety and to keep smoke to a minimum."

Recreational fires include cooking and camp fires, barbecues and other backyard warmers that burn charcoal, propane, natural gas or firewood. Those fires are allowed only on private property and in designated areas in parks and other public lands.

Here's what Spokane Clean Air recommends if you plan to light up a fire in our region:

My family's adventure in kitty-sitting took a turn, just a week into fostering kittens for SpokAnimal.  We have a little of 5 kitties. They were teeny, tiny when we got them, weighing less than a pound a piece. Our job is to fatten them up and love on them; socialize them so they are ready for their new homes.

But, with kitties found and brought in, there's no way to know what they've been exposed to. When we got them they seemed healthy.. but, about a week in, we noticed one, the runt started getting sick. She had nasty diarrhea, wouldn't eat and was lethargic. We called SpokAnimal who had us bring her in right away.

It turns out, she had a parasite called coccidia (among the most common infections in cats and dogs).  She was very sick.  A tech at SpokAnimal, Trina, has been nursing her back to health. Trina's had to give her special feedings every 2 hours and medicines. It's been a week and she's ready to come back home with us and her kitty siblings.

Trina was wonderful, sending us picture and text updates.

If a giant guitar cookie wasn't a smoking gun indicator of a surprise concert this August, maybe the Spokane Arena employees dressed a la 80s was bigger hint. 

It was being kept a secret until today. Spokane Arena sent out a press release earlier this week that someone big was coming to Spokane. 

Sound the air guitars. Van Halen is slated for an August 21st performance along with David Lee Roth. A fancy press conference was held Friday morning to announce the concert. It was so fancy, members of the media were given one-time press badges.

We didn't eat the cookies displayed on the tables, but we wondered what kind they were.

Tickets go on sale May 19th at 10 a.m. online at TicketsWest.