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The new PBS series First Peoples starts June 24 with an episode that covers Kennewick Man and others who producers call “First Americans.”Click to Continue »

A Morrow County undersheriff has won the $5.5 million lottery after purchasing an Oregon Megabucks ticket in Boardman.Click to Continue »

Campfires and smoking outside cars are prohibited on WA Fish and Wildlife-managed land.Click to Continue »

Pasco police arrested a Kennewick man early Saturday morning after he was caught prowling the fenced compound around the department’s dispatch center.Click to Continue »

A Kennewick man caught an 11-foot-long, 700-plus pound white sturgeon in the Columbia River earlier this month.Click to Continue »

A loose dog was shot and killed Saturday morning in Kennewick after it had attacked a teenage boy and charged police and animal control officers.Click to Continue »

Court documents: Several women said that the former Pasco police officer Richard Aguirre choked them during sex.Click to Continue »

The 2015 Mid-Columbia Pride in central Richland Saturday drew hundreds to John Dam Plaza for a parade, entertainment and food vendors.Click to Continue »

Celerino Leon Martinez, the driver in Tuesday’s fatal crash near Ringold, has been charged with one count of vehicular homicide while detectives continue their investigation.Click to Continue »

A Benton County Superior Court judge ruled this week that the February election for an $89.5 million bond approved by Kennewick School District voters was valid despite the recent discovery…Click to Continue »