The Grant County Health District reports no new confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday keeping the total at 158. Officials say since the outbreak began 9.7% of test results have come back positive, which is above the state average of 7.6%. There are 111 tests pending results. In Adams County four new cases were reported Monday … Read more
Clases for the fall quarter at Big Bend Community College will be held only online. Officials made that announcement on Monday citing the uncertainty on lifting social distancing practices and the need to get preparations completed for the fall. President Terry Leas says he anticipates that the school will be able to conduct face-to-face instruction … Read more
The death of a 20-year-old man north of Ellensburg is being investigated as a homicide. Police say they recovered the man’s body Saturday after a citizen spotted it in a creek along Smithson Road. The man was identified as Leroy Scott who is a native of Louisiana but had ties to Joint Base Lewis McChord. … Read more
Get your rod and reel, rifles and golf clubs out – Fishing, hunting and golfing in Washington resumes next Tuesday. Governor Jay Inslee made the announcement on Monday which also re-opens state parks and state lands for day use. Inslee says they will be monitoring the number of coronavirus cases and if it goes up … Read more
Additional details are released into the attack of a 14-year-old girl last week in Ephrata. Police say the girl was walking in the 200 block of G St. NW when a man chased her then grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth. She screamed and that got the attention of neighbors which resulted … Read more
A woman is dead in a two-car crash Monday near Desert Aire. Police say 38-year-old Cricelia Zepedaacevedo of Desert Aire was going north on State Route 243 when she drifted off the road to the right then overcorrected and went into the southbound lanes where she hit an oncoming vehicle. Zepedaacevedo died at the scene … Read more
The Moses Lake Summer Explorer’s Day Camp received a $1,000 Walmart Community Grant. Each year the grant will provide money to replace play equipment and buy new arts and crafts supplies, Recreation Supervisor Carrie Hoiness says since Explorers is only in its third year they can use all the help they can get. The start … Read more
Some residential construction could re-start this week under directives issued by Governor Jay Inslee. Under Inslee’s Stay Home, Stay Safe order home building was listed as a non-essential industry but since then the governor has been asked to change that designation. Under the so-called Phase 1 safety requirements only activities on existing construction projects can … Read more
Moses Lake Police introduced the public to its newest K-9 last week. Jester is a 14-month old Belgian Malinois who will partner with officer Nick Stewart whose former partner K-9 Chief was forced into retirements from injuries suffered while on duty. Jester came from the same Iowa kennel as K-9 Rex. Once Stewart and Jester … Read more
The Grant County Health District reports a third death from the coronavirus. Officials say the individual is a man in his 50s from Mattawa and was not employed prior to or during his illness. A Quincy man in his 80s died in early March and earlier this month Moses Lake man in his 60s died … Read more