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Updated 29 minutes ago

Start the new year in an out-of-this-world Way

MOSES LAKE — Milky Way is a fashionable young lady who likes a good snuggle and a relaxing atmosphere. A bit over …

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Soap Lake Community and Senior Center looks to be community hub

SOAP LAKE – Perry McClellan wants the Soap Lake Community Center to be a place where people gather to enjoy events and time with one another. McClellan, who…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Moses Lake Community Coalition hosting town hall on gangs

MOSES LAKE – The Moses Lake Community Coalition will host a forum on gangs and gang prevention in the Moses Lake Civic Center and City Hall from 7 p.m. to 9 p.…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Grant PUD asks public for more input on rates

MOSES LAKE — Grant County Public Utility District customers will have until July 31 to submit their ideas and opinions on future rate policy, and therefore fut…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Exhibits, activities on the schedule for local museums

MOSES LAKE — A photo contest in Moses Lake, tractor rides and honeybees in Quincy and ice cream and Scoundrels Getting their Just Deserts in Ephrata are among …

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Driven Tiger: Ephrata's Roberts closes out high school career on high note

EPHRATA – Making his third appearance at the 2A State Track and Field Championships, Ephrata senior Hayden Roberts knew he wanted to close out his high school …

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
MLHS, Vanguard complete WA accreditation process

MOSES LAKE – The Moses Lake School District announced Wednesday that Moses Lake High School and Vanguard Academy have successfully completed the Washington Sta…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Ephrata summer meals program expanding

EPHRATA – The Ephrata School District will be offering both on-site and grab-and-go breakfast and lunch meals for children over the summer, according to a pres…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
‘A step back in time’

BICKLETON — Out in the wheat country of eastern Klickitat County, time sort of stands still. The little town of Bickleton, population 92 at the last census, is…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
16-year-old Mattawa girl dies by overdose

MATTAWA – Grant County detectives are investigating the suspected fentanyl overdose death of a 16-year-old Mattawa girl, according to a Wednesday statement fro…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Senior Picnic celebrating 10 years of fun

MOSES LAKE – The venue is booked. The menu is prepared. The band is scheduled. It must be time for another Senior Picnic at the Grant County Fairgrounds. This …

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Hispanic-owned businesses show power of hard work

MOSES LAKE — Brothers Vincent and Ben Hernandez and friends Ulises Sanchez and Hector Guerrero all had pretty good jobs. They had different goals though, goals…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Spring all-league lists released

COLUMBIA BASIN – Nearly 300 athletes and coaches from around the Columbia Basin were named to their respective all-league lists during the spring sports season…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Port of Mattawa moving forward with 2 grant projects

MATTAWA – The Port of Mattawa is moving forward with two grant-funded projects this year after the Grant County Treasurer increased the port’s warrant limitati…

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Marijuana moratorium extension requested in Grant Co.

EPHRATA — Grant County development officials are recommending a six-month extension of the moratorium on new marijuana production facilities in the county. If …

Updated 1 year, 6 months ago
Development at Othello Port intersection pushing forward - slowly

OTHELLO – Port of Othello Executive Director Chris Faix provided an update on the port’s progress in finding funding for a roundabout at the intersection of St…