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Soap Lake moves forward the 2027 preliminary budget draft
SOAP LAKE — During the Oct. 7 Soap Lake City Council meeting, council members had a number of new business items t…
Grant County counselor's practice credential reinstated
OLYMPIA — A Grant County counselor has had his practice credential reinstated with conditions. Aaron Glenn’s permission to practice had been suspended in 2013.
Horticulture information meetings set for Wenatchee, Yakima
WENATCHEE — Advance registration is open for an annual program of continuing education classes for cherry growers in Yakima. Four days of presentations for cherry, apple, pear and stone fruit growers is scheduled f…
Elections planned for cherry committee
YAKIMA — Representatives will be selected for the Washington Cherry Marketing Committee at annual grower meetings in Yakima and Wenatchee in January.
Local student named Miss India USA for 2017
MOSES LAKE — Shree Saini finds competing in pageants “a big spiritual thing.”
Moses Lake man sentenced for gun-waving incident
MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man who held a loaded gun to his head and threatened to shoot himself in Moses Lake in June will be spending a year in prison.
Apricot committee elections set for January
YAKIMA — Apricot growers and processors will vote for members of the state's apricot marketing committee in meetings in Yakima and Wenatchee next month.
Picking the wrong fight
MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man had to get stitches on Christmas Eve after he reportedly fought with a police K-9.
MLSB halts construction spending
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School Board on Thursday voted unanimously to suspend all spending on any construction-related projects until the lawsuit over last…
Ephrata gets second drug drop-off box
EPHRATA — Live in Ephrata and got some unneeded prescriptions that you want to get rid of? Then you are in luck as Ephrata now has an additional drug drop-off box for people to use.
Samaritan projected to finish 2017 in the black
MOSES LAKE — Revenues dropped during October at Samaritan Hospital, but appear to have rebounded in November. At the end of October Samaritan Healthcare was still ahead of its budget target for net revenue. Chief f…
Wow your guests with these New Year's goodies
Got a party on New Year's Eve coming up? Don't want to bring the usual chips and dip? Make some of the goodies below and wow all your friends with how well you…
Moses Lake man charged with robbery
MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man is facing charges for allegedly robbing a man outside of a Moses Lake business in late November.
Weather could get messy over mountains this weekend
MOSES LAKE — Holiday travel is tricky. Holiday travel over a three-day Christmas holiday weekend is even more tricky. Traversing a snow and ice covered central Washington mountain pass over a busy three-day Christm…
Raffle results in donation to warming center
MOSES LAKE — A charitable raffle resulted in a $630 donation to the Grant County Homeless Task Force for its warming center.
Ephrata swears in new council member
EPHRATA — The Ephrata City Council said goodbye to a longtime council member, Stephanie Knitter, and swore in her successor, Justin Kooy, at a regularly schedu…