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Updated 1 day, 22 hours ago

Q&A: Samaritan Healthcare candidates

MOSES LAKE — Incumbent Katherine Christian and challenger Elliot DeLong are running for one of two open position...

Updated 2 days, 13 hours ago
Q&A with Ephrata trustee candidates Mike Fleurkens and Jordan Hansen

EPHRATA – Two candidates are vying for a seat on the Ephrata School Board. Mike Fleurkens and Jordan Hansen made it past the primary over the summer...

Updated 2 days, 13 hours ago
Moses Lake School Board election Q&A

MOSES LAKE — Two candidates are running for Position 3 on the Moses Lake School Board, the incumbent Susan Freeman and challenger Carla Urias...

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Righting a wrong

MOSES LAKE — It’s well known that racial disparities have historically existed in housing. Official racial discrimination – rules about which races can live ...

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
QVMC commissioners award materials contracts

QUINCY — Quincy Valley Medical Center commissioners awarded about $4.57 million in contracts for materials for the new Quincy hospital in a special meeting W...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Samaritan board approves bond issuance

MOSES LAKE — Samaritan Healthcare commissioners approved the issuance of about $136.48 million in revenue bonds to pay for the construction of the new Samari...

Updated 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Housing Finance Commission names new chair

SEATTLE —Real estate and banking leader Nicole Bascomb-Green was recently appointed by Governor Jay Inslee as the new chair of the Washington State Housin...

Updated 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Royal City mayor moving on

ROYAL CITY — Royal City Mayor Kent Andersen is stepping down after about a decade of service to the city...

Updated 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Grant Co. Hospital District 1 ballot to change after court decision

EPHRATA – Dr. Brandon Penix will be removed from the November 2023 ballot for Grant County Hospital District 1’s third district seat after a decision by Gran...

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Soap Lake City Council swears in new member

SOAP LAKE – The Soap Lake City Council voted unanimously to approve Fred Slipper to fill the vacant position No. 2 on the council during Wednesday’s regular ...

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Vacated seat

OTHELLO — Othello City Council members will leave one council position vacant until the November general election. Council members decided not to replace Jon...

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Adams Co. primary vote finalized

RITZVILLE — Council incumbents in Lind and Ritzville will face challengers in the November general election, an EMS levy was approved in Othello and maintena...

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
'23 Grant Co. primary results set council, mayoral and hospital races

EPHRATA — The Moses Lake and Warden city councils will have new members, two Coulee City council incumbents will square off and Royal City area voters approv...

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Walsh named state GOP chairman

BELLEVUE — State Rep. Jim Walsh, who represents District 19 in the Aberdeen area., was named chair of the Washington State Republican Party, according to an ...

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Murray visits UW Computer Science and Engineering School

SEATTLE – Senator Patty Murray, D–WA, visited the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Wednesday for a tour and ...