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County commissioners opened bids for two parts of countywide road safety improvement projects Monday. For guardrails they chose the apparent low of $386,419 from M2 Industrial, Inc., of Ellensburg. A total of three bids came in, the other two from...

Chris Cook, Palouse city councilman and school board member, has filed to run for mayor to succeed four-term mayor Michael Echanove, who announced earlier this year he would not seek a fifth term. Cook is a 14-year Palouse resident and seven-year...

Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse released a joint statement urging Washington Governor Jay Inslee to veto the $750,000 line item in the capital budget that would commission a state-funded study on breaching the federally-owned and...

Whitman County commissioners took in an update Monday from Mark Storey, Public Works director, on a stalled resolution involving a fence damaged during the snows of February and early March. On both sides of Belsby Road, at the northwest edge of...

Ashley Rockwell of Pullman was awarded a Jacqueline Boles Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Georgia State University. Now studying for a doctorate degree, she is a sociology major and was recognized this spring during college honors...

Whitman County Public Works department will hold a meeting May 29 at the county's solid waste facility off Highway 195 between Colfax and Pullman on plans for a new moderate risk waste (MRW) facility. The operation would be for household hazardous...

Charges of second-degree assault filed May 15 in superior court relate to a Feb. 22 Pullman Police investigation of a fight at the SAE fraternity house on NE B Street on College Hill in Pullman. Charged with second-degree assault were Markus...

Whitman County commissioners discussed topics, like sweeping interest to the Public Works fund and adjusting credit card fees during a workshop session Monday morning. Washington made changes several years ago to allow county commissioners to take...

A summer-long paving project on Highway 195 between Rosalia and Plaza Road started Monday. Richard Shelling, WSDOT assistant project engineer, said construction crews will grind off the top asphalt surface and then will repave the 7.8-mile stretch...

The Local Records Grant Program, which provides funding to Washington counties and towns to organize records, was extended indefinitely last Tuesday with a law signed by Governor Jay Inslee. The grant program had a set amount of years which has now...

All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will close May 25-27 in observance of Memorial Day. Due dates for library materials have been extended in anticipation of the closures and no late fees will be charged for these days. Drop boxes and Wi-Fi...

He takes the eighth-graders every year, whether they will play or not. “So they know how to act when it’s their turn,” said Brad Nilson, Colton softball coach, whose 2019 team opens at state in Yakima Friday at 1 p.m. against Wishkah Valley....

The Colton High School baseball team beat Quilcene 9-0 May 18 to advance to play Odessa in a state 1B semifinal, a team they beat 15-10 May 7 in the district playoffs. This time, with a berth in the championship game on the line in Chehalis, Colton...

Student debt is a national problem. Students find themselves leaving college with massive loans and the daunting challenge of how to pursue career goals and pay off those loans. A college degree remains important for future earnings and choice of...

Okeydokes Staff member at Ticks who read to children while father shopped for...

Our court system is out of control. I was watching a Mariner’s game the other day when the network filled a break in the action with a half dozen commercials. My drink and chip bowl were both full, so I sat back in my recliner and day-dreamed. I...

The surprise about the big New York Times story on Donald Trump's tax returns is that there are no real surprises. Trump's taxes have been an obsession of the left since he, in violation of a long-standing norm, reneged on his promise to release...

There are dams that should come down and those that shouldn’t. Hopefully, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts its review of the 14 federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers, that will become abundantly clear. That review is expected...

May 1, 2003: Then-President George W. Bush landed in a jet on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to announce that just a few weeks after his Iraq invasion, all major combat operations would end. It was a made-for-television event....

Thank you, for Frank Watson's well-written article. If ever the time was right, after our "Leftist Legislature" thinks they have had an "Epic Year" this is a reasonable time to respond. The Washington legislature needs to know they have not served...

At Pullman Regional Hospital Wheatley, Finnegan Dickson, born May 7 at nine pounds, five ounces, to Thad and Anna Wheatley, Pullman, Wash. Paternal grandparents are Dale and Dennis Myers, Wenatchee, Wash. Maternal grandparents are Dan and Rae...

Rosalia Chamber of Commerce has honored Bob and Sharon Scholz from Thornton by naming them grand marshals of this year’s 50th annual Rosalia Battle Days Parade and celebration. Bob and Sharon began farming in the Rosalia/Thornton area in 1959....

Dear Savvy Senior, I have heard that the VA has a benefit that can help veterans and spouses with long-term care costs. We recently had to move my 86-year-old father – who served in the army nearly 60 years ago – into an assisted living...

125 years ago The Commoner, May 18, 1894 A movement is on foot for the formation of an Interstate Collegiate Oratorical Association, among the schools of collegiate grade in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Thus far the name of Colfax College has not...

Homestead Ministries had a multi-church event making 3,000 soup ingredient bags in a record time of two-and-a-half hours last week. The soup bags are going to local food banks and food banks in central Washington state, as well as 1,500 to Zimbabwe...

Pastor David Wells of United Methodist Church and Pastor John Cross of Selbu Lutheran Church met May 19 with the Community of Faith group which has been working on various projects for the community. The main topic was this year's Vacation Bible...