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Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Seahawks advance to Super Bowl with thrilling 31-27 win over Rams in NFC title game

SEATTLE (AP) — Sam Darnold was cast aside by the New York Jets, who drafted him No. 3 overall in 2018. The Minneso…

Updated 2 years, 8 months ago
Moses Lake exchanges gifts with sister city

MOSES LAKE — The City of Moses Lake is giving a pair of landscape prints from a local artist to the city of Yonezawa, Japan, in response to Yonezawa’s gift of …

Updated 2 years, 8 months ago
Bill to protect gas stoves introduced in Congress

OLYMPIA — A bill introduced Monday would protect gas stoves from proposed federal limitations, according to an announcement from Rep. Dan Newhouse, R – Washing…

Updated 2 years, 8 months ago
Saving those who served

EPHRATA — Every 28 seconds or so, a U.S. military veteran attempts to take their own life. “Suicide is the 12th leading cause of death in the U.S. There wer…

Updated 2 years, 8 months ago
Greater love hath no man ...

KELLOGG, Idaho –– There is a hill on the southeast side of Kellogg – at the top of that hill is Greenwood Cemetry. To find the headstone belonging to First …

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Health Department: Flu deaths up tenfold last year

OLYMPIA — 2022-23 was the deadliest flu season in five years, the Washington State Department of Health said in a statement Friday...

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
SGL earnings rise despite carbon fiber sale drop

WIESBADEN, Germany — SGL Carbon, which makes carbon fiber used in automotive and aerospace components in Moses Lake, said earnings for the first three months o…

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Legislators request millions in infrastructure funding for Adams Co.

RITZVILLE – Adams County looks to have millions of dollars in federal funds for infrastructure projects approved by Congress through requests by regional legis…

Updated 2 years, 10 months ago
Newhouse introduces measure supporting organic farming

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, is sponsoring legislation intended to support research into organic agriculture and improve data collection…

Updated 2 years, 10 months ago
Reclamation releases climate plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water projects across the country including the Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Proje…

Updated 2 years, 10 months ago
Youth art sought for national competition

COLUMBIA BASIN — Young artists are invited to try for a chance to be shown at the Capitol, according to a statement from U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-WA...

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Airport siting bill passes WA House, gets Senate hearing

OLYMPIA – A bill that would replace the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission established in 2019 to recommend possible locations for a new airport had a…

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Feds indict Ephrata man for child pornography

SPOKANE — An Ephtata man convicted last month of multiple charges of sexually abusing a minor has been charged by a federal grand jury with producing child por…

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Local aerospace developer, Stoke, gets historic launch site for testing

KENT — Reusable rocket engine maker Stoke Space Technologies announced late Tuesday that it has been assigned a launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Sta…

Updated 3 years ago
Report: China bans some solar manufacturing tech exports

HONG KONG — China has reportedly banned the export of several important technologies needed to make solar panels, according to a report in the Hong Kong-based …

Updated 3 years ago
January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day

In light of the observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which seeks to ensure the world never forgets the atrocities associated with World War II and the Nazi…