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Mavericks open season with home victory on the pitch
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake Mavericks (1-0) returned to the pitch Thursday and took care of business against the E…
Bierlink makes history in Jacks’ 80-71 win over Huskies
QUINCY — The Quincy Jacks (2-6) defeated the Othello Huskies (2-6) 80-71 to earn their second win of the season. They also celebrated Pierce Bierlink becoming …
Mavs bowling off to strong start
MOSES LAKE – The Moses Lake Mavericks bowling team is sitting at 5-3 on the season and are second in the Big 9 right behind Eastmont. The Mavs look to improve …
Audit findings follow sentencing of former GCFD 4 chief
WARDEN — Grant County Fire District 4 is instituting new policies for credit card use and use of its petty cash accounts. Fire district officials also have wri…
MLHS Pals Club fundraiser deemed a success
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake High School Pals Club gathered together outside of Crumble Cookie on Thursday to raise money for the unified sports programs before…
Port of Moses Lake to build electrical generation, transmission lines
MOSES LAKE — The Port of Moses Lake will start construction of electrical transmission lines between port property and Rocky Ford to the north and the port and…
Vikings go 2-1 in three games before break
MOSES LAKE — The Big Bend Community College Vikings finished the last week of competition 2-1 after facing the Clackamas Cougars, the Linn-Benton Road Runners …
Christmas Confetti
MOSES LAKE — Confetti is a medium sized, mixed breed (38% adorable, 22% snuggly, 40% love bug – 100% awesome) pup who would like to come home with you for Chri…
MLSD, MLEA address school day, finances during final meeting of 2025
MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School District Board of Directors held its final meeting of 2025 Thursday. During the meeting, both the Moses Lake Education Assoc…
Pledge leader
EPHRATA — Summer Rocheleau, an Ephrata resident, has been leading the Pledge of Allegiance at council meetings for over two years. After she finished leading t…
A year of successes
MOSES LAKE — Downtown Moses Lake has had a pretty good year. “I think people are starting to recognize that there is stuff downtown,” said Downtown Moses L…
'Affordability is first'
OLYMPIA — Sen. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake and the Republican Caucus Chair for the Washington State Senate, shared her legislative priorities for the upcoming s…
Mattawa to work on sewer, water projects in 2026
MATTAWA — The city of Mattawa has budgeted to spend about $200,000 more in its current expense (general) fund in 2026 than it is projected to receive in revenu…
Christmas week weather 2025
Christmas week weather 2025
BASIN SPORTS SCHEDULE: Dec. 22-29, 2025
COLUMBIA BASIN — Local athletes head into winter break and begin to slow competition, but will still be working hard to get themselves ready for the rest of th…
Quincy Shop with a Cop pairs families with officers
QUINCY — Ten Quincy families will have a brighter Christmas through the Quincy Police Department’s Shop with a Cop event Dec. 6. “Seeing how excited the ki…