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The following students were named on the Whitworth University, Spokane, Laureate Society for spring semester.Click to Continue »

Monday — Rosemary chicken, au gratin potatoes, seasoned green peas, wheat roll, raspberry sherbet.Click to Continue »

The following students were among 3,571 to earn a place on the 2015 spring term scholastic honor roll at Oregon State University:Click to Continue »

The Port of Kennewick has tentatively identified where a performing arts center could be built in the Vista Field redevelopment but there’s still a lot of steps to make it…Click to Continue »

Pasco City Councilman Al Yenney has three challengers in the upcoming primary election: Elias “Eli” Bustos, Bertha Alicia Coria and Juan Bolaños.Click to Continue »

Members of Columbia Basin Dive Rescue were responding Saturday night to reports of a body found on an island in the Columbia River.Click to Continue »

A state mediator will work with the Pasco School District and the Pasco Association of Educators Aug. 4 and 5. The union is threatening to strike if an agreement between…Click to Continue »

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory held “Family Day” on Saturday at its north Richland campus, celebrating Battelle’s 50th anniversary managing the lab.Click to Continue »

Antonio Bravo Vega, 36, of Pasco, drowned Friday night while swimming with his family in the Columbia River north of Pasco.Click to Continue »

Seth Brune, right, of Exteriors Too in Kennewick, attaches brackets to a portion of the ramp that he and other volunteers are building for Paul Martin Saturday in Kennewick.Click to Continue »