Grand Coulee News

Priscilla Hoflack walks past the closed H.D. Hotspurs restaurant and bar on Washington Avenue next to the Kent Kmart.

A national organization recently named the south fork of the Skykomish River the seventh most threatened river in the nation, and it all centers around a small dam that doesn't yet exist.

The May 1 column in The Olympian by Paul Krugman is worthy of an award for clear thinking and telling it like it is.

Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination, promising to fulfill President Franklin Roosevelt's vision for a planned promised land where hard-working farm families would finally be free from the drought and dislocation caused by the elements.

Trish Butler has announce her intention to file for election to another term as an Okanogan County Public Utility District Commissioner.