News Staff The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has decided to comply with a U.S. Court of Appeals order to ignore a federal COVID vaccination requirement aimed a keeping workers safe. Officials wrote in a statement that they will not enforce the safety measure, which would require companies that employ 100 or more people to have … Read more
EASTON – Kittitas County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the circumstances surrounding a woman who was found dead in an active quarry near Easton on Wednesday morning. The body was that of a middle-aged Caucasian woman with tattoos and shoulder-length hair with pink-dyed tips. She was found lying in the rock cliffs created by the quarrying … Read more
MOSES LAKE – Smulligan’s BBQ in Moses Lake is finally fully open for business. Smulligan’s recently opened for take-out orders, but indoor dining was not yet available nor was the full menu. But on Tuesday, the restaurant announced that it was fully open to the public. -0-
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – Washington state’s bipartisan redistricting commission failed to meet its Monday deadline for redrawing political maps. That means the Washington Supreme Court will now take over the job of drawing new political district maps, as required under state law. The high court has until the end of April to come up with … Read more
SPOKANE – A Moses Lake man has been indicted in connection to a sting operation that morphed into a shootout with a federal agent in Spokane. Randy Coy James Holmes is facing a slew of charges stemming from the Nov. 5 incident outside a Spokane Motel 6 involving the illegal sale of a firearm to … Read more
LEAVENWORTH – The Think Pink program is offering mammogram exams at no cost. Recently, a group of local business owners raised nearly $3,500 in funding towards Cascade Medical Center’s Think Pink free mammogram breast cancer screening program. A check for $3,446 was presented to the Cascade Medical Foundation which will be used to help patients … Read more
A report published by the Washington State Department of Health recently [Nov 10] shows which of the nine school districts in the state have a high spread of coronavirus. The report shows that by Halloween [Oct 31], more than 350 students in the four-county region were infected. The age group that contracted the most coronavirus … Read more
MOSES LAKE – A Moses Lake physician is being accused in the overdose deaths of two patients. The Washington Medical Commission (WMC) alleges Dr. Irene Kimura prescribed opioids to patients who had known substance abuse issues, which contributed to the 2017 and 2020 fatalities. Dr. Kimura’s license is restricted from prescribing controlled substances pending further … Read more
VANTAGE – One person was killed and two Soap Lake residents were injured in a crash Thursday night on I-90 west of Vantage. A 2009 Honda Civic was heading east on Interstate 90 when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle. State troopers say the driver lost control on the wet road, causing the vehicle … Read more
OTHELLO – A Moses Lake man is facing multiple child sexploitation charges in connection to an ongoing investigation. Dustin L. Blaske, 37, was booked into Grant County Jail following a search of his Bacon Lane Northeast residence in Moses Lake in which agents found him to be in possession of grossly illicit images of children … Read more