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WEATHER: May 26-30

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Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Sheriff's office welcomes new 4-legged deputy

MOSES LAKE — When the Grant County Sheriff’s Office’s newest four-legged deputy graduates from K-9 school, the county will have a team of three four-legged dep…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Work and music subject of museum lecture

MOSES LAKE — Work, and how work affected (and still affects) the music people sang and played, will be the subject of a lecture, with musical accompaniment, at…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Del's Feed and Farm Supply to close in Othello

OTHELLO — Tractor Supply Company, the largest rural lifestyle retail store chain in the United States and owner of Del’s Feed and Farm Supply, has announced that the Del’s location in Othello will close this fall.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Newhouse hosting listening session in Moses Lake tomorrow

MOSES LAKE — If you have a concern you want heard, or just want to listen about what your congressman is doing in Washington D.C., then set aside some time tom…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
New principal in love with Quincy

QUINCY — Lisa Navarro-Uvila isn’t new to Washington.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Tickets on sale for benefit motorcycle raffle

MOSES LAKE — Tickets are on sale for a fundraising raffle for the Big Bend Community College Foundation. The winner of the “Wheels for Education” raffle will t…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Ginkgo Forest Winery move could help tourism

MATTAWA — Ginkgo Forest Winery is moving to Prosser.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Uncommon code

MOSES LAKE — The challenge absorbed students in the Digipen class at Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Soap Lake to get surveillance cameras, plate readers

SOAP LAKE — Soap Lake residents will soon be seeing surveillance cameras and license plate readers strategically placed around the city, as the city council approved a motion to enter into an agreement with a compa…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Legislature crafts internet privacy bills

Washington has joined several other states in proposing internet privacy protection bills after Congress blocked FCC regulations barring internet providers fro…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Evergreen donates tractor to Ghana

OTHELLO — Kwesi Osei-Bonsu doesn’t want his people to become dependent on handouts or largesse from others.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Soap Lake police chief totals new patrol truck in crash

MOSES LAKE — Soap Lake Police Chief Ryan Cox was injured in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday night while driving his department’s new patrol truck near Moses Lake.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Newhouse opens 2017 high school art competition

WASHINGTON D.C. — If you are in high school in the Columbia Basin and an artist, Fourth Congressional District Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Yakima, has a competition f…

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Quincy man accused of molesting daughter

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Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Quincy swears in new interim police chief

QUINCY — Quincy’s new interim police chief was sworn in Tuesday evening, and his first official act was to swear in a new a police officer.