Goldendale News

Just because the sun's not shining doesn't mean we don't have a local bright spot.

A bill prompted by the escape last fall of criminally-insane killer Phillip Paul won approval Monday in the House Human Services Committee.

The license of Karen M. Loucks, registered in Goldendale, has been immediately suspended.

GOLDENDALE, Wash. -- State regulators have suspended the license of Goldendale registered nurse Karen Loucks based on allegations that she tampered with and possibly diverted narcotics at the Klickitat Valley Hospital.

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A Wenatchee man suffered a broken leg late Thursday when the pickup he was driving ran off U.S. Highway 97 north of Goldendale and struck a rock wall.

January 1, 2010 marked the 3rd annual Central Klickitat County Park and Rec. District Polar Bear Plunge at Maryhill State Park .

The state may move all criminally insane mental patients to Western State Hospital in the wake of Phillip Paul's escape from an Eastern State-sponsored field trip to the Spokane Interstate Fair earlier this year.

There are new rules for dealing with patients who enter the states' mental hospitals through the criminal justice system.

The escape of a mentally ill patient during a field trip to a county fair in September has prompted the state Department of Social and Health Services to adopt stringent new rules on which patients can go on outings from the state's mental hospitals.

The state may move all criminally insane mental patients to Western State Hospital in the wake of an escape from Eastern State earlier this year.

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.