Goldendale News

Maryhill Museum south of Goldendale saw attendance rise 17 percent this year, a trend its director suspects is driven by a poor economy spurring people toward affordable diversions.

Yakima and Klickitat counties are receiving part of $3.3 million in loans and grants to create job and business growth.

The Maryhill Museum near Goldendale says attendance increased 17 percent this year to nearly 46,000 visitors.

Puget Sound Business Journal Cannon Power Group phot The Cannon Power Group is building a $1 billion wind farm project in Klickitat County.

Eastern Washington voters are choosing three state House members in special elections to replace departed incumbents.

A Goldendale man died Tuesday night in a two-vehicle collision on Bickleton Highway, authorities said.

Author and museum curator Steve Grafe will present an illustrated lecture about Columbia River Plateau beadwork at Heritage University on Wednesday.

A national traveling exhibition about Benjamin Franklin will come to the Sunnyside Library starting this weekend.

Puget Sound Business Journal A wind farm project near Goldendale in Klickitat County received $178 million in funds from Siemens Financial Services Inc.

Field trips from Washington's two state mental hospitals will remain suspended indefinitely because of an insane killer who walked away from a trip to a fair in Spokane last month, the Department of Social and Health Services said Friday.Agency Secretary Susan Dreyfus said the state will keep investigating the failure of Eastern State Hospital ...

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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.

Some of Hawaii's trash is headed to a landfill in Eastern Washington. Oahu starts shipping trash Monday under a contract signed in August with Seattle-based Hawaiian Waste Systems.

Officials in France say three French soldiers have been killed in a violent storm in northeastern Afghanistan.

A former Marine has been charged with murder for the third time in a fatal 2005 beating in Kennewick.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A schizophrenic killer who was recaptured Sunday in Goldendale and brought here is now being taken back to a Spokane area hospital, authorities said.

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.Hospital chief executive officer Harold Wilson sent his resignation to the Department of Social and Health Services, effective Oct.

Mackenzie Phillips says she had a sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips, a member of the '60s Mamas and the Papas band.

A schizophrenic killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution during a trip to a county fair was recaptured Sunday after three days on the loose.

The arrest of escaped killer Phillip Paul has made headlines everywhere, including national news and especially in local coffee shops in central Washington where Paul was captured.