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Grant, Douglas and Chelan PUDs consider collaboration on geothermal energy
WENATCHEE — Three Central Washington public utility districts are exploring whether geothermal energy could become…
Developer eyes second crossing for Moses Lake
MOSES LAKE — With the Mae Valley area growing rapidly and commercial trucks needing another way out to the Port of Moses Lake that bypasses town, just about everyone agrees there needs to be a second way to get acr…
Divots the newest addition for an avid golf community
MOSES LAKE — Golfers in the Columbia Basin have a new venue to get some swings in at a wide variety of courses with the new indoor Divots Golf facilities in Mo…
State sends relief to small businesses impacted by COVID-19 pandemic
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Commerce said Thursday it has awarded $234 million in the fourth round of Working Washington relief and recovery grants.
New tenant comes to Port of Mattawa
MATTAWA — Port of Mattawa officials have added a new tenant at the port’s industrial park: Waste Management will have a storage yard for its equipment and receptacles.
A ‘general practitioner for the eyes’: Moses Lake optometrist combines clinics in new facility
MOSES LAKE — It starts with something like “read me the letters on the third line from the bottom.”
More than a market, a movement: Women-owned businesses gather at ‘pop-up’ event
Beneath a lively reggaeton beat and nearly 90 degrees of heat, 12 women-owned small businesses set up booths for the first-ever She Se Puede (She Can Do It) Po…
REC Silicon hopes to restart production in Moses Lake in 2023
MOSES LAKE — REC Silicon believes it can restart its shuttered Moses Lake production facility sometime in 2023.
New hardware store coming to Royal City
ROYAL CITY — Royal City public works crews soon will begin upgrades to a water line on Beech Avenue Northeast, providing water to property being developed for a new hardware, lumber and feed store, with plans to op…
Saving water is a serious job for Quincy irrigation district
QUINCY — Three million acre-feet. That’s how much Columbia River water is pumped out at the Grand Coulee Dam every year and sent to the three irrigation distri…
Space needed: Grant County census data shows higher growth in population than housing
After an adjusted data release timeline due to COVID-19, the U.S. Census Bureau recently published its most updated population counts and housing data. For Gra…
Mitsubishi mulls restarting its mothballed SpaceJet program
TOKYO, Japan — Despite eliminating its U.S. aircraft subsidiary and pausing development on its SpaceJet passenger aircraft, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) e…
‘Project North’: company looking at buying empty plant on Road N
MOSES LAKE — A company is looking at buying the empty Xyleco production facility on Road N Northeast, which could bring as many as 300 new jobs to the region.
Group14 eyes Moses Lake facility
Battery technology startup Group14 Technologies’ recently completed 27,000-square-foot production facility in Woodinville is only the beginning, according to c…
‘Remnants of what we were’: Tri-State Outfitters’ closing is almost complete
MOSES LAKE — There’s not much left in Tri-State Outfitters in Moses Lake.
Polo Ridge development set to move to third stage
Schneider Custom Homes LLC is in the application process for Phase 3 of Polo Ridge, the final 11 lots of a residential development extending Polo Ridge Drive b…