Connell News

The first-round of the high school state football playoffs -- for the most part -- appear set.

A man was arrested Saturday for suspected drunken driving after his vehicle rolled over on Highway 260, 20 miles east of Connell.

Connell Mayor Gary Walton apparently has been re-elected. His opponent, Bob Widows, had asked voters to vote for Walton because he felt Walton was doing a good job.

Connell City Council candidate Bob Widows wants you to vote, just not for him. It's too late to withdraw from the Nov.

A local woman, who has worked all over the northwest, came back to the area to start her own photography and portrait design company, Olivieri Portrait Design, in Richland.

Derek Pouchnik dunks his wife Brenda in the log-rolling event at Saturday's Super 6 Lumberjack Challenge during Old Mill Days in Port Gamble.

If anyone embodies the phrase "cowboy up," it's McCall Lovejoy, daughter of Diane Lovejoy of Eltopia.

Mosquito traps set up around Franklin County have collected 37 mosquito samples that tested positive for the West Nile virus.

The transition from growth to contraction in Washington's state prison system has been abrupt.

The city of Connell will get $50,000 to clear sediment from a channel as part of a statewide effort by the Washington Department of Ecology to help communities prevent damage from flooding.

Spokane Valley Planning Commission Chairman Ian Robertson was elevated to the City Council Tuesday.

Spokane Valley Planning Commission Chairman Ian Robertson was elevated to the City Council Tuesday.

Kelli Connell won't buy school supplies unless they're on sale. Beginning in July, the Yakima mom begins scouring advertisements for the best deals.

A Pasco man who lost his left eye after a brutal beating -- allegedly at the hands of his prison cellmate -- has awakened from a coma and is talking and eating, a family member said.

The Spokane Valley City Council grilled a pair of retired ministers and a computer specialist Tuesday in search of a replacement for one of its founding members.

A Coeur d'Alene man has pleaded guilty and received more than 42 years in prison for the October 2008 killing of a crack dealer in Spokane.

Colleen Connell, front left, leads a group of women who belong to The Stroller Strides along the Centennial Trail earlier this month.

Wind whipped through Walt Neff's golden wheat fields in Franklin County on Monday afternoon as clouds blocked out the sun.

Testimony may help Knox's case ROME -- News reports say a police official and defense consultant has testified in the murder trial of a U.S. student in Italy that no break-in was staged in the apartment where a Briton was slain in 2007.

Fireworks shows planned over the Columbia River in Kennewick and at Gesa Stadium in Pasco are two ways Tri-Citians can have fun and safe Fourth of July celebrations, authorities said.