Bickleton News

BICKLETON - An effort to reign in expenses has prompted the Bickleton School District to switch to a four-day school week, with Fridays off.

Students in three small school districts in the state will get every Friday off starting sometime in January.

Iberdrola Renewables has executed another long-term power purchase agreement with M-S-R Public Power Agency for the entire output from its 50-megawatt Big Horn 2 Wind Project about to go into construction near Bickleton, Washington.

BICKLETON - Bickleton High School students Jessica Cummings and Joshua Cummings compiled perfect 4.00 grade point averages for the first quarter of the 2009-10 academic year.

A cattle drive -- the old-fashioned, horseback kind -- brought traffic to a halt in Bickleton on Friday afternoon.

Detective Roger Knight stands outside the Spokane County sheriffa s training facility in Spokane Valley on Monday.

The "they" in this case are officials at Eastern State Hospital for the mentally ill who thought it was OK to take a psychotic killer with a previous escape record on a field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair.

The head of Eastern State Hospital has resigned in the wake of last week's escape by a criminally insane man who stayed on the run for three days.

BICKLETON, Wash. -- A company looking for natural gas says it is holding off on plans for additional exploratory wells after its latest effort showed disappointing results.

This image provided by the Spokane County Sheriff's Office shows 47-year-old Phillip Arnold Paul.

BICKLETON The long, winding roads through Yakima and approaching Goldendale give way to wheat fields and the summer sun in Eastern Washington.