Hazmat crews responded to downtown Spokane on Thursday morning for a semi-truck that was stuck under the Stevens Street overpass.

The crash happened just after 8:30 a.m. at First Avenue and Stevens Street. The driver was heading southbound on Stevens Street when he got stuck.

According to Spokane police, the truck was carrying paint and paint thinner.

Police cited the driver with failure to obey traffic control device.

Stevens Street was shut down from Second Avenue to Sprague Avenue as crews investigated.

Food trucks are all the rave in cities like Portland and Seattle while here in Spokane, interest is on the rise but the long permit process is turning some entrepreneurs away.

Right now the city is hosting an open house for current and potential food vendors to get feedback on how the process to become a vendor can be streamlined and made easier for people in the future.

In a parking space, right outside the courthouse every Tuesday, Couple of Chefs Catering cooks up a little bit of everything from burgers, sandwiches to fried Mac and Cheese.

"We decided Spokane needed another food truck," Joile Forral with Couple of Chefs said.

The interest in food trucks is growing, but getting the right permits and going through inspections takes both time and a lot of patience.

"A couple times we had the issue of asking a question and since it's such a new idea and concept people were like 'Oh, I'm not quite sure, let me ask someone else,'" Forral said.

Doug Bickford with D & D Dogs said it took him three months to get on the street grilling hot dogs.

New patrol car cameras, batons, tasers and training are coming to the Spokane Police Department. Last week, the city council approved the use of $1.1 million from the reserve fund, but one lone council member - the president - voted no.

City Council President Ben Stuckart thinks the department needs something more important - officers. He was the lone 'no' vote in the 6-1 vote to approve the release of the funds.

"I just don't think it's a wise idea to spend a million dollars over here on equipment when we are still short somewhere between 25 and 50 police officers in our community, " Stuckart said.

The money will be used to fulfill part of the Use of Force Commissions recommendations revealed in February: tasers, ironwood batons, patrol car dash cams and training. This is all in an effort to emphasize de-escalation, rather than deadly force.

It's not that Stuckart is against the equipment upgrades, he just wants to see upgrades coupled with more officers.

"Anything we do needs to be tied to having more police officers on the ground," Stuckart said.