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Updated 5 hours, 44 minutes ago

BBCC Job and Career Fair connects job seekers with jobs

MOSES LAKE — More than 1,200 job seekers were expected to come out to Big Bend Community College for its annual Jo…

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Herald will livestream bond arguments

MOSES LAKE — The Columbia Basin Herald will live­stream on its Facebook page oral arguments before the state’s Third District Court of Appeals on last February’s disputed $135 million school construction bond.

Updated 8 years, 2 months ago
Auto program teaches skills, a sense of mastery

MOSES LAKE — When Natividad Cardenas first started in the auto program at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center, he wasn’t sure he was up to fixing cars.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Speaking out on schools

MOSES LAKE — Nothing has changed since February 2017, when Moses Lake School District voters approved a $135.4 million construction bond.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Unexpected challenge leads to rewarding career

KENNEWICK — Susan Hoose had to deal with challenges she didn’t expect. So she did.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Ballots for Othello school bond mailed this week

OTHELLO — Ballots will be mailed this week for a special election to approve or reject a $61.4 million construction bond proposal from the Othello School District.

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
'Cupcake Wars' at CB Tech

MOSES LAKE — The frosting was the crowning touch, strawberry cream cheese frosting for red velvet cupcakes. It had awesome strawberry flavor, had been whipped …

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Bill would strengthen school response for mental health crises

OLYMPIA — School districts throughout the state have for years failed to complete legally required response plans for students who are in potentially dangerous…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Big Bend enrollment down

MOSES LAKE — Enrollment dropped at Big Bend Community College at fall quarter, and enrollment also is down for winter quarter. What to do about that was a topic of discussion at the regular meeting of BBCC trustees…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Plans for Big Bend CC building submitted to county

MOSES LAKE — Plans for the new workforce education center at Big Bend Community College will be submitted to Grant County building officials for review next we…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Moses Lake schools face stark levy choice

MOSES LAKE — Despite the promise of increased school funding from Olympia, the Moses Lake School District is very likely going to face some tough spending choices in the next few years, especially regarding athleti…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
MLSB talks bond changes

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake School Board voted on Thursday to start reconsidering what to do with last year’s school construction bond and to hold at least one…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Bond talk at Othello meeting

OTHELLO — School overcrowding, school construction funding and what happens if Othello keeps growing were among the subjects discussed at a community forum spo…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Transforming lives at Big Bend

MOSES LAKE — Big Bend Community College honored 10 of its own Thursday, celebrating both individual hard work and persistence against adversity as well as the …

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
SL council urges county to take care of abandoned school building

SOAP LAKE — The demolition and removal of an abandoned and decaying Grant County-owned school building in Soap Lake has been a pressing issue in the city for years and city officials are now urging the county to do…

Updated 8 years, 3 months ago
Future of MLSD still uncertain

MOSES LAKE — Last February, Moses Lake School District voters cast ballots for a $135.3 million bond to build the district a second high school and 11th elementary school as well as for renovations to the existing …