Connell News

Jennifer Michelle Krigbaum has been accepted by Stanford Who's Who for her exceptional work in the Housing Industry.

Santa's got his work cut out for him in the Mid-Columbia this year. As word has gotten out that he has a particularly good helper at the Pasco post office, a few hundred letters arrive there every year.

Christmas may be a little brighter for more than 260 young children in foster care in the Tri-Cities thanks to volunteers and a special "stocking project" organized by a Benton-Franklin juvenile court program.

The Franklin County Coroner's office has identified the victim of a fatal crash on December 12, 2009.

When you're traveling cross-country at three miles an hour, you tend to look at the world differently.

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.