COVID-19 NEWS
Keep up with all the fast-moving novel coronavirus news, particularly as it impacts the Columbia Basin.
COVID-19 update
RITZVILLE — Adams County Health Department administrators have reported another death related to COVID-19, raising…
NWAC postpones the start of college sports
MOSES LAKE — College sports won’t start on time in the Northwest Athletic Conference.
Quincy extends deadline for small business grants
QUINCY — Council members for the city of Quincy have extended the deadline for applications for Quincy small business grants to Aug. 10 at 8 a.m.
Seventh Grant County resident dies of COVID-19
GRANT COUNTY - A Moses Lake man in his 70s who had the coronavirus has died, Grant County Health District said Thursday. It was the seventh death in Grant Coun…
Health district gets less cooperation
MOSES LAKE — Grant County Commissioner Richard Stevens has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Despite budget woe, legislature not meeting
OLYMPIA — Facing a projected $8.8 billion budget shortfall in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Republican state lawmakers are urging their Democratic coun…
Coronavirus: Thirty new cases in Grant County
GRANT COUNTY — There were 30 new cases of the coronavirus reported in Grant County on Wednesday, including eight reported in Moses Lake, five in the Mattawa area, five in Ephrata, two in Quincy, two in Royal City a…
Coronavirus: Total cases exceed 700 in Grant County
GRANT COUNTY — There were 15 cases of the coronavirus reported in Grant County on Tuesday, according to Grant County Health District.
Start of fall prep sports pushed
RENTON — High school sports in the fall will not start on time this season.
Surge in COVID-19 cases driven by Eastern Washington
While the coronavirus first pounded the greater Seattle area, the epicenter has moved east across the Cascade Range
Face coverings now required in businesses
Businesses across Washington have been preparing for the implementation on Tuesday of a statewide order for businesses to require customers to wear masks while…
Coronavirus: 79 new cases over the weekend
GRANT COUNTY — There were 79 new cases of the coronavirus reported in Grant County since the last report Friday evening, including twenty-five in Mattawa, fifteen in Moses Lake and Royal City, ten in Quincy, and se…
Othello sees 23 new cases of COVID-19
OTHELLO — Twenty-three residents of Othello tested positive for COVID-19, it was reported Monday, July 6. That brought the total of confirmed cases in Adams County to 186.
Grant County Health District receives $1.4 million grant
MOSES LAKE — Grant County Health District will hire eight temporary employees and provide some COVID-19 testing for uninsured people by using funds from a federal grant designed to help pay coronavirus outbreak-rel…
Ephrata council reaffirms utility relief
EPHRATA — The Ephrata City Council voted Thursday to reaffirm extending water, sewer and garbage payment relief to residents affected by the closures related to COVID-19.
Health board members: Brzezny is doing his job
GRANT COUNTY — Though health officials in Grant County are in normal times tasked mostly with regulating restaurants, sewers and wells, the coronavirus has bro…