Whitman County Gazette - Serving Whitman County since 1877

COLFAX — Washington State Governor Jay Inslee appointed Whitman County Commissioner Michael Largent to the statewide Forensic Investigation Council as County Legislative Authority. Largent’s term on the Council began Oct. 12, 2023, and will end...

COLFAX — The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) released its third round of Farm to School purchasing grants, awarding four Whitman County School Districts $20,000 each. Garfield School District, Palouse School District, Tekoa...

COLFAX — The annual Colfax Winterfest is this weekend, starting with events on Friday, Dec. 1, through Saturday, Dec. 2. Downtown Association Director Whitney Bond said that this year’s event is a co-collaboration between the Downtown...

COLFAX — The Downtown Association is progessing with their small business incubators that received funding in November 2022. “It’s going well,” Downtown Association Director Whitney Bond said to the Gazette, Tuesday, Nov. 21 noting...

PULLMAN — The Pullman Police Department applied for and obtained, a surplus MaxxPro MRAP, an armored vehicle built to withstand ballistic arms fire and emerging threats. The urban rescue vehicle (URV) will be used primarily by the Whitman County...

COLFAX — The Port of Whitman County recently completed a feasibility study funded by the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) to study a proposed technology transfer and commercialization scaling center at Pullman...

COLFAX — The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a weapons offense on Wednesday, Nov. 22, at approximately 7:15 a.m. in the 4000 block of Nelson Road, five miles north of Palouse. According to a press release from Thursday,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden and Inslee administrations have been colluding secretly with extremist environmental groups and four tribal governments on plans to breach dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. A “confidential mediation document...

OAKESDALE — The Oakesdale Nighthawks volleyball team will have a new outside hitter next season, replacing Payton Davis, who has been a starter on the team since her eighth grade season. Davis will be attending Central Washington University next...

COLFAX — The Washington Supreme Court has stayed the ruling from the Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax, which granted Washington State University (WSU) and Oregon State University (OSU) control of the Pac-12 conference. A temporary restraining...

WHITMAN COUNTY — The winter sports season is officially underway in Whitman County. Tekoa-Rosalia, Oakesdale, Garfield-Palouse, Colton, and St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse all will have boys basketball teams this season. The only school to not have...

We had a great crop of apples this year and more pumpkins than we could give away. Blackberries from the Westside and home canned cherries from early summer and have we got our pies! America is a land of plenty and we love to eat at ball games,...

Over the last decade, salmon populations across Washington state have stagnated, making virtually no progress toward recovery. That news has not reached Governor Inslee’s spokesman Mike Faulk, who recently pointed to salmon recovery as an area of...

The Building Integrated Grids With Inter-Regional Energy Supply (BIG WIRES) Act is a promising bipartisan bill in Congress that offers a wide range of benefits: reducing the risk of electrical power outages, lowering carbon emissions and energy...

Dear Editor, (writer is from a Colfax family) Former President Trump’s agenda for 2024 is becoming increasingly clear. Mr. Trump established a long time ago an absolute power to hire and fire. (The Apprentice) Our sitting President then went on...

COLFAX — The Colfax Volunteer Firemen are hosting their annual Firefighters’ Christmas Toy Box Drive and collecting donations. Colfax local Sherry Brackett has donated 150 hats to the yearly cause to provide for children in the area. Brackett...

COLFAX — The Thrifty Grandmothers shop is awarding at least ten $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors in Whitman County this year. Students eligible for the scholarships must be planning to attend accredited colleges, universities and...

STEPTOE — There will be a Wreaths Across America (WAA) wreath-laying ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 16, in observance of National WWA Day at noon at Steptoe Bethel Cemetery, Scholz Road, Box 76. Organizer Cherry Alice Van Tine said this year’s...