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Home Center celebrates new owners with ribbon-cutting, grand reopening
MOSES LAKE — The owners of the Home Center made their takeover of the business official Friday with a ribbon-cutti…
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…
Ginkgo Forest Winery move could help tourism
MATTAWA — Ginkgo Forest Winery is moving to Prosser.
Uncommon code
MOSES LAKE — The challenge absorbed students in the Digipen class at Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center.
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…
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…
Evergreen donates tractor to Ghana
OTHELLO — Kwesi Osei-Bonsu doesn’t want his people to become dependent on handouts or largesse from others.
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.
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…
Quincy man accused of molesting daughter
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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.
Bill to reassess military credit makes cut-off in House
A bill to reassess the way military service credit for state retirement plans is awarded to veterans who have been deployed narrowly made cut-off in the Approp…
Former House candidate, wife arrested for child porn
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A former candidate for the 13th Legislative District has been arrested in Oklahoma City on charges of possession of child pornography.
Adams County unemployment drops in February
RITZVILLE — More nonfarm jobs came to Adams County in the second half of 2016, and contributed to a slight drop in unemployment in February 2017.
Group seeks to overturn court ruling in school bond case
MOSES LAKE — The drama of the $135 million Moses Lake School construction bond continues.
FSA loan program taking applications
EPHRATA — Applications are being accepted for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that provides loans to beginning farmers and ranchers, as well as farmers in “underserved” groups.