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Pasco police are looking for a man who fired three shots at the Golden Nugget nightclub nearing closing time Sunday morning.Click to Continue »

Washington State University Tri-Cities has formed a partnership with another university which will send a handful of students in coming years to study in the largest city in Switzerland.Click to Continue »

The number of community gardens has grown rapidly in recent years. Thirteen have been established this year alone, bringing the Tri-Cities’ total to 34.Click to Continue »

A Kennewick man drowned in the Columbia River late Saturday night while camping on a boat anchored at an island in the river.Click to Continue »

Warm summer evenings are drawing stargazers into their backyards to watch the solar system’s two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, slide past one another in a dazzling close encounter, perhaps…Click to Continue »

The Pasco Association of Educators wants a guarantee that sixth-grade teachers will continue to teach their specific subject of expertise to multiple classes. That’s a guarantee administrators say they can’t…Click to Continue »

Does the Pasco School District have a universal curriculum across all its schools? Some teachers say not. School district administrators say yes.Click to Continue »

Go to www.seniorliferesources.org for more information.Click to Continue »

Five more cases of anencephaly, a fatal birth defect, have been confirmed in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties so far this year.Click to Continue »

This Father’s Day, a West Richland father of seven reflects on his goals as a parent. Faith, hard work and fun are part of the family’s daily routines.Click to Continue »