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GENESEE–The Genesee football team and its five Colton players are on hiatus following a positive test by one if its coaches last week before the fourth game of the season. Genesee (3-0) was set to play Clearwater Valley (Kooskia), a Whitepine...

COLFAX—The “Flight Line Drive Realignment and Drainage Project” continues at Colfax Airport, to improve paved road accesses and drainage near the center of the airport. The work will replace drainage pipes with smooth-walled pipes – as...

“One of the plays he drew up, I’d already stolen from him.” “In ’03 when we lost to Brewster at state in double overtime, that could’ve been us.” “I would never coach a kid like me, I’d throw him out of the gym.” “I would...

COLFAX—The Colfax School Board met Monday night to field a variety of items, including a drop in enrollment and subsequent impact on the budget, a construction update and the resignation of longtime junior high/high school girls basketball coach...

COLFAX—Work continues this week on Whitman County jail sewer lines, fixtures and electrical, along with roofing improvements at the courthouse, marking $2,084,097 in projects. At the jail, a crew from McKinstry Co. of Spokane has begun to install...

COLTON–The cross-state addition of Colton students to the Genesee High School football team began with a 30-24 home win over Timberline Aug. 28. Quarterback Angus Jordan, a Colton sophomore, threw for a 61-yard touchdown with under a minute left...

COLFAX—Usually held in Selah every year, the “Under the Milky Way” softball tournament moved to Colfax Aug. 29-30, running from 7 p.m. – 3:30 a.m. at McDonald Park. A total of 18 teams, made up of girls 18 & under, participated in the...

COLFAX– Whitman County commissioners voted unanimously Monday to extend the marijuana moratorium for another six months, taking it to March 4, 2021. One person spoke during the meeting’s public input time; Hailey Lewis, government affairs...

COLFAX– After eight years of funding, planning, design and a year’s delay for right-of-way and wetlands work, the $6 million Almota Road Phase Four reconstruction project moved into its final stretch of painting Aug. 28. On Monday, some clean-up...

PALOUSE—The City of Palouse will go without levies on the November ballot for arterial streets and the swimming pool, after a city hall oversight resulted in not filing by the Aug. 4 deadline. Last year, the pool levy went for $34,000, with an...

Now that college football season is gone for half of the United States, representing the most significant hit to the sports world during COVID-19, it suggests – since we’re still in this – perhaps sports administrators should use part of this t...

TEKOA — The Tekoa café at the crest of the hill – in the building of a former implements dealer – will go out of business Friday after 19 years. The Feeding Station, owned and operated by Shawn Smith and her mother Juanita Paden since 2006,...

PALOUSE—Haunted Palouse will disappear for 2020, after organizers announced July 29 they will not hold the perennial fundraiser over two weekends in October because of concerns over the virus. Leaders considered options for no-contact haunted...

COLFAX—Whitman County Commissioners Monday approved three expenditures of federal CARES Act money, for which the county has a total of $2.7 million for COVID-19 relief. Commissioners committed $575,000 to small-business aid to be administered by...

COLFAX -- Whitman County Information Technology Director Lance Bishop announced Monday that the county will get out of hosting all of its Zoom meetings. Instead, he will set up individual administrators in each department to host their own meetings....

COLFAX—The Colfax School board voted unanimously Monday night to start school on time in full K-12 distance-learning mode, following the recommendation of the Whitman County Health Department. With the board’s decision, the local re-opening plan...