News Staff BEVERLY – This week, the Bureau of Reclamation revealed a proposal from a privately-owned company that is requesting to build transmission lines between the Vantage Bridge and Beverly in Grant County. Royal Slope Solar, wants to construct an array of solar panels and may have solar battery storage. The solar facility would be built on … Read more
MOSES LAKE – A Yakima County woman is recovering after sustaining a traumatic brain injury during the Moses Lake Roundup Rodeo at the Grant County Fair last week. According to her GoFundMe page, Madison Alderman got hurt while running flags at the rodeo Saturday [Aug. 20], falling head-first from her horse into an arena post, … Read more
EAST WENATCHEE – East Wenatchee police are investigating a shooting that left a man seriously hurt Tuesday. According to a press release, East Wenatchee Police responded to a residence on N. Georgia Avenue and reported a man was wounded and bleeding from his arm, but refused to say what happened. Initially, it was thought that … Read more
DAVENPORT – Lincoln County Sheriff’s officials are trying to determine how an inmate escaped from the confines of the county’s jail on Monday night. Sheriff’s deputies say, 37-year-old Cody Magruder somehow walked away from the jail in Davenport, which is about 37 miles northeast of Odessa. -0-
WENATCHEE – A driver that crashed into the Washington State Patrol’s district office in Wenatchee on Monday likely experienced a medical issue. KPQ reported that the driver was hospitalized after careening into the building at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Gunn Road, stopping just short of the secretary’s office. Fortunately no one was hurt. … Read more
MAZAMA – People camping above Hart’s Pass in Okanogan County are considered stranded if they plan to come down the mountain by vehicle. A series of mudslides on Monday has made the single-lane mountain pass impassable by vehicle. Okanogan County Sheriff’s officials say heavy rain and hail caused a large slide, and flash flooding also … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) – King County, which includes Seattle, officially declared the local monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Friday, as infections continue to increase in the city and other parts of the state. The local emergency proclamation will support efforts to contain the virus, officials said. Washington has reported 333 monkeypox infections, 275 of … Read more
EPHRATA – ‘See Something Say Something.’ Grant County police are crediting concert goers for doing just that after they spoke up when they saw an armed man in the Gorge Amphitheater parking lot on Friday night asking where people would be exiting when the concert ended. Law enforcement was alerted and deputies detained the suspect, … Read more
MOSES LAKE – Violence marred the 2022 Grant County Fair. Extra police presence marked the last day of the fair, following multiple fights, including one iFIBER ONE News reported on last week between two teens that left one of the juveniles unconscious for a brief period of time. And, on Friday night Sheriff’s officials say … Read more
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s…a UFO? According to the Tri-City Herald, a Hanford nuclear reservation worker reported that on Aug. 10, as they were driving north across the Grant County border they noticed what looked like a vertical, cigar-shaped object with lights hovering at an altitude of roughly 500 feet in the … Read more