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COLFAX— The City of Colfax is asking customers to reduce irrigation in order to conserve water in a press release by Public Works Director, Matt Hammer on Wednesday, August 3. The City is currently in the process of replacing the Clay Street Well...

SPOKANE – A Rosalia man was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 2, to 10 years in federal prison in a child-pornography case. Philip Mario Harhill, 74, of Rosalia, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Washington for coercion and...

PULLMAN – Whitman County Humane Society directors reacted Monday, Aug. 1, to allegations of mismanagement raised by the July 25 mass exodus of several employees and others. “At this point, the board of directors of WCHS has multiple current...

PULLMAN – Pullman Regional Hospital’s Board of Commissioners approved a funding proposal for a patient care expansion and remodel project of approximately 80,000 square feet, including minor medical equipment. The project is estimated to cost...

PULLMAN – Whitman County Sheriff's Office deputies responded at 8:30 a.m. to a report of a hit-and-run at Davis Way and Old Wawawai Road on Monday, July 25. WHITCOM radioed the report and said Brent Damery, of Colfax, was hit by a silver 2008...

PULLMAN – A horse helped emergency responders find its injured rider near Pullman last Thursday, June 28. Whitman County Sheriff’s Deputies and Fire District 12 Volunteers responded to a missing person report around noon on Thursday. The...

PULLMAN – A decline in blood donations this summer has the American Red Cross offering would be donors a chance to win a $6,000 gas card. All donors from Aug. 1-31 are receive an entry into the giveway. The Red Cross blood supply has shrunk...

COLTON – Avista electric customers in Colton, Uniontown, and the surrounding area are expected to experience a scheduled power outage starting Thursday, Aug. 11. The power outage will last from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Aug. 11-12 while Avista crews...

PULLLMAN — The Pomeroy swim team topped the Pullman Barracudas, 530-469, during a meet last Thursday. The Pomeroy girls scored 331 points, while Pullman girls only scored 188. For the boys teams, Pullman topped Pomeroy, 281-199. Here are the...

I just listened to a campaign ad for Patty Murray, who is seeking another term as our senator. She stated she will fight for us for lower prescription prices, inflation, high gas prices, public safety and a cornucopia of problems we face daily. The...

Mike Largent has put his personal life on hold in order to give Whitman County the expertise which we are used to. He has proved in the past he has all the qualifications Whitman County needs in a county commissioner. Whitman County is an...

COLFAX – The Colfax School District will bring back the annual fall musical with a production of "Oliver!" on Nov. 18-23, 2022. Auditions for the show will be the first week of school. This year the cast will need 25-30 junior and senior high...

LACROSSE – Community Pride, Angela Broeckel, Mayor Randy Camp, and the LaCrosse City Council nominated community leader Lois Startin for the National Small Town America Civic Volunteer Award last october. An award more than seven hundred people...

WHITMAN COUNTY – The Eastern Washington Dean’s list is released after every fall, winter, and spring quarter. The fall and spring quarter lists also includes students on the semester system. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours...

Polly Lynn Zehm passed away on July 1, 2022, at her home in Olympia, Wash. She was 64 years old. Polly was born Oct. 30, 1957, in Spokane, Wash., to Leonard and Mona Zehm (Lundstrum). Polly grew up in the Palouse, graduating from Liberty High...