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Updated 7 hours, 10 minutes ago

WEATHER: May 5-11

Tuesday: Sunny, high near 81 and northeast winds 10 to 14 miles per hour, gusts to 26 mph. Mostly clear, with a lo…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Organizers say airshow draws more than 7,000

MOSES LAKE — More than 7,000 people attended this year’s Moses Lake Airshow — many of them from far outside the area — and hotels across Moses Lake were sold o…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Melcher appointed to Charter Commission

OLYMPIA – House Minority Leader J. T. Wilcox, R-Pierce County, recently appointed Vickey Melcher to a 4-year term on the Washington State Charter School Commission...

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
GCSO donates to Behind the Badge Foundation and John Bernard Scholarship

Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones presented a check for $83,000 to Behind the Badge Foundation Executive Director Brian Johnston on Monday.

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Corner Street Donuts now open in Moses Lake

MOSES LAKE - Danielle Bailey, owner of Corner Street Donuts, cuts the ribbon on her new business at the corner of Broadway Avenue and Alder Street on Monday su…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Local clubs host 12th annual joint charity golf tournament

MOSES LAKE - The Kiwanis Club of Moses Lake and the Moses Lake Rotary Club put on their 12th annual Golf Scramble Friday, giving back to the community they res…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
NCHA Weekend comes to Grant County Fairgrounds

MOSES LAKE - The National Cutting Horse Association hosted its NCHA Weekend event at the Grant County Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, bringing in riders from …

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
MLSD board approves walking path agreement

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School District will pay up to 50%, to a maximum of $50,000, of the cost of building a walking path along East Nelson Road on the a…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
'It Feels Amazing’

MOSES LAKE — Kekuni Robello-Dorsey expressed a common feeling of the students who earned a high school diploma or GED, or both, through the Open Doors Program …

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Deane case still active, pending lab results

MOSES LAKE — The Grant County Prosecutor’s Office has yet to file charges against Eric Deane, who was arrested Tuesday in Moses Lake on suspicion of drug posse…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Levi Bisnett

MOSES LAKE - Levi Bisnett wants Moses Lake to be recreationist and pedestrian-friendly. As a project surveyor with the city, he gets a chance to make that visi…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Buying still the best option

COLUMBIA BASIN - Jennifer Kron a broker with Moses Lake Realty Group said it still makes more sense to purchase rather than rent, despite the increase in mortg…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
MLFD gets grant for hazardous response team

MOSES LAKE — it’s a Thursday afternoon in the Safeway parking lot, and a trio of Moses Lake Fire Department firefighters stands around an old white Cadillac. …

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
WSDA offers more grants for Farm to School program

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday it is now accepting grant applications from local districts to buy locally grown farm commodities for breakfast and lunch...

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Ham radio event scheduled for this weekend

Ham radio operators from the Central Washington Amateur Radio Club in Grant County will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from noon on Saturday until noon on Sunday, June 25-26 at the White Trai…

Updated 3 years, 10 months ago
Ye Olde Pub

MOSES LAKE — There’s a rather famous story behind the name painted on the side of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, “Ye Olde Pub,” that sat on a runway at Grant…