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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…
Molahiettes reap 3 state titles
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake High School Molahiettes came home with not one, not two, but three state championships from competition last weekend. The previous …
Inslee inaugurates STEM day with Japanese ambassador
MOSES LAKE — Gov. Jay Inslee was in Moses Lake on Thursday to help unveil a new program from Mitsubishi Aircraft designed to encourage interest in science, tec…
WinCo for the win
MOSES LAKE — Celebrity sighting or grocery store opening? It was hard to tell inside and outside of WinCo Foods in Moses Lake Thursday morning, as the grocery …
Quincy police chief: 'resignation not voluntary'
QUINCY — Former Quincy Police Chief Bob Heimbach wants to set the record straight.
State House honors Buffalo Soldiers
OLYMPIA — The House of Representatives honored the Buffalo Soldiers, an African-American cavalry unit known for their valor based in the west after the Civil War, in a resolution on March 22.
Ephrata collision leaves 3 injured
EPHRATA — Three people were injured in a two-vehicle collision Wednesday evening near Ephrata.
Man charged for leading police on chase
MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man admitted to being high on methamphetamine while leading Moses Lake police on a high-speed chase that reached speeds over 100 mph.
Senate passes capital budget
OLYMPIA — District 13 is slated to receive new funding for buildings at Big Bend Community College and Central Washington University.
Work proceeding on Priest Rapids refurbishment
WANAPUM DAM — Just like remodeling a house, upgrading components of a hydroelectric project brings with it some good surprises, some bad surprises and some adj…
Unrest in Ghana makes sister-city relationship difficult
OTHELLO — Instability and violence in northern Ghana have made it difficult for Othello to actively support its sister city Wulensi right now.
Seminars help those with memory loss on the mind
Losing your memory — way beyond day-to-day stress and forgetting where you put your car keys — has been called “the long goodbye.” Serious memory loss, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or dementia, can quickly devastate …
Grant County unemployment drops in January
MOSES LAKE — Unemployment in Grant County dropped four-tenths of 1 percent between January 2016 and January 2017. Unemployment did jump almost a full percentag…
DOC early release bill voted out of committee
A bill to reform the Department of Corrections, drafted in response to the early release of around 3,000 prisoners over the last 13 years due to computer miscalculations, was voted unanimously out of the Public Saf…
Quincy police chief stuns town with resignation
QUINCY — Quincy Police Chief Bob Heimbach suddenly and unexpectedly resigned on Wednesday.
Ghanaian no stranger to Othello
OTHELLO — When Kwesi Osei-Bonsu makes the arduous, day-long trip from Ghana to Othello, he doesn’t really feel like he’s leaving home.