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Updated 14 hours, 8 minutes ago

Washington sports schedule May 31-June 6

COLUMBIA BASIN – Check out this week’s Washington sports schedule, featuring professional and local events acros...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
E. Nelson Road light being replaced

MOSES LAKE — Drivers can expect flaggers controlling traffic at the intersection of State Route 17 and East Nelson Road Wednesday or Thursday. Washington Sta...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
MLIRD funding bill signed

OLYMPIA – A bill sponsored by state Sen. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and supported in the house by Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, and intended to establish fun...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Timeline TBD

QUINCY — Washington Department of Transportation officials are not sure yet what the revised timeline will be on the construction of a roundabout at State Ro...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Dent bill restoring pesticide board signed into law

OLYMPIA – A bill authored by Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, which creates a Pesticide Advisory Board for Washington was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee on F...

Updated 2 weeks, 4 days 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 weeks, 4 days ago
Rodríguez homers and drives in 4 to lead Mariners past Tigers 9-2

DETROIT (AP) — Julio Rodríguez had three hits, including a homer, and drove in four runs as the Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 9-2 on Friday night....

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days 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...

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
WA expands free school lunch program

OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee this week signed into a law a measure that will expand free school lunches to all students in kindergarten through fourth grade in ...

Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Nominations open for disability-friendly employers

OLYMPIA — Nominations are open for the 31st annual Governor’s Employer Awards, according to a statement from the Washington State Governor’s Committee on Disability Issues & Employment. The GCDE Employer Award...

Updated 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Weather for Monday, May 8, 2023

Monday: A slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 69. Light and variable wind becomin...

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Steel Ranch

MOSES LAKE – Steel Ranch is a unique property located in Adams County being offered through Basin Ag Sales and Moses Lake Realty Group. Anna Van Diest of Bas...

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Washington AG’s office, DSHS fined for evidence withholding

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state attorney general’s office and Department of Social and Health Services have been fined $200,000 — and could pay hundreds of thousands more in legal fees — for what a judge call...

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Elderly Wenatchee couple protected from scam attempt

SPOKANE — U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington Vanessa Waldref announced Thursday that the U.S. Secret Service has seized over $290,000 as part of an alleged fraud scam that targeted an elderly We...

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Local gun shop files suit over weapon ban

MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake gun shop owner has filed a lawsuit in response to the assault weapon ban enacted last week. Guardian Arms LLC, located at 208 S....

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Special session called to complete Blake decision work

OLYMPIA – Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he has called a special session to begin May 16 to address drug possession legality impacted by what is k...