Coulee Dam News

Two Deer Park men have been identified as accomplices in a pharmacy robbery police linked to a 20-year-old woman.

Our city, like many, is facing some challenging times. Often, the reaction is to retreat; to bunker down a ' maybe even to start giving our responsibilities to others.

Ferry service at Keller was suspended Oct. 8 until further notice after a leak was discovered in the hull of the Martha S. The suspension of service on state Highway 21 across the Columbia River 'is ample evidence that our communities need a new ferry,' Colville Business Council Chairman Michael Finley said.

Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center began its winter hours of operation, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, on Oct.

Growing up around engineers and fisheries biologists, I'm wired to go sightseeing at fish ladders, salmon-spawning creeks - and dams.

Lopez resident Ralph Nansena TMs new book, Energy Crisis: Solution from Space discusses a bold solution for the problems we face today: dependence on oil as our primary energy source, global climate change caused by the proliferation of carbon dioxide, and the threat of wars over diminishing oil supplies.

Posted: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 - 4:47 p.m. PDT Tribe offers praise for fire response NESPELEM - The Colville Confederated Tribes issued a statement Sept.

"After Work," by Rich Beyer and Steve Love, honors the workers who built the Grand Coulee Dam.

A wildfire near Nespelem has forced officials to evacuated people near the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

A Nespelem school bus was damaged Sept. 10 in a crash on state Highway 155 at the north city limits of Elmer City.

I was disappointed in the underlying racism and blatant fear-mongering of Rich Landers' article on Aug.

Crews from at least six local fire districts are fighting a wildfire between Elmer City and Coulee Dam Friday evening.

The Revelstoke Unit 5 turbine has been delayed at Shelter Bay for the second time in as many weeks.

In August 1953 our parents took my three siblings and me on a month-long trip to the West Coast.

The Unit 5 turbine is currently at Shelter Bay. It had been scheduled to make the final leg of its journey this past weekend, but the move has been delayed for a week.

The Unit 5 turbine will arrive at Shelter Bay sometime around Sunday or Monday and will then be moved along Highway 23 to the Revelstoke Dam.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN PUD may increase hedging to reduce financial risk PUD may increase hedging to reduce financial risk By Christine Pratt World staff writer WENATCHEE - The Chelan County PUD could increasingly use "hedging" - selling blocks of power at set prices for multiple-year periods - to lock in more price certainty and reduce the ...

By Eric Degerman, sportstricities.com To quote Jim Rome, I spent last week "in the basement." The first two days, I volunteered for the National Park Service at the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area above Grand Coulee Dam.

Wherever fresh or salt water flows, there is power to be harnessed, and last week there were 2,000 harness makers in town anxious to throw cold water on the idea that hydroelectricity is the renewable energy of the past.

The Canadian company that dumped heavy metals into the Columbia River for nearly a century volunteered to clean up a Washington beach it polluted.