Grand Coulee News

Making my way from Winthrop to the Coulee Dam. Hitting the road around 5 a.m. in order to beat the heat and the headwinds; temperatures this week are expected to be in the 90s.. Took a break at the Rest Awhile cafe along Highway 153, just outside Pateros.

Mid-Valley Hospital earned the distinction of being among the most technologically-advanced hospitals in the country, according to results of the 2009 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released in the July issue of Hospitals and Health Networks magazine.

Here is what's open and what's closed Friday and Saturday for the Fourth of July holiday: Banks: Banks will be open regular hours on Friday and will be closed Saturday.

A number of rural airports in Eastern Washington and North Idaho are preparing projects, worth a combined about $2.3 million, to add space for private hangars or to improve safety.

A museum collection that contains 100,000 prints and drawings and more than 30,000 photographs offers a potential cornucopia of exhibitions for visitors who otherwise would never get to see most of this material, and who might never realize that such a massive archive even existed.

The fifth annual Kids Fest at Grand Coulee Dam will be Saturday, June 20. The free event is for children 12 and younger.

Just what makes Spokane look like an overachiever in dodgy endeavours is a matter of debate.

Visitors to the Grand Coulee Dam can once again learn about the mammoth concrete structure thanks to a laser light show this summer.

The Laser Light Show at Grand Coulee Dam has been postponed indefinitely because of mechanical difficulties, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

Tonasket WENATCHEE the music LEAVENWORTH CHELAN STORY: Mariachi remix During Thursday's mariachi workshops, Edgar Gaytan, left, Jose Ortega, middle, and Erick Perez watch instructor Osbaldo Chavez demonstrate fingering for a chord.

A U.S. senator once asked Harry Hopkins, top aide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whether federal jobs programs were a wise idea "in the long run." "People don't eat in the long run, senator," Hopkins retorted, "they eat every day." Like the Obama administration's federal stimulus plan, Roosevelt's New Deal relied heavily on feeding people by ...

A Coulee Dam man has accepted the job of superintendent of the Nespelem School District.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN PUD still seeing red in budget PUD still seeing red in budget By Christine Pratt World staff writer WENATCHEE - A year-end deficit of $18.3 million is still expected to ride the Chelan County PUD's bottom line this year, despite a mild rally in power prices.

Dan Bates / The Herald Bill Motteler, 79, a volunteer from the South Everett Lions Club, prepares another plant for one of the city's large planters on Colby Avenue just south of Hewitt Avenue early Friday morning.

A 1936 oil-on-canvas by Clyfford Still, who later in life mastered the art of abstract expressionism.

Wenatchee WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN STORY: PUD's ready for another rate talk PUD's ready for another rate talk By Christine Pratt World staff writer WENATCHEE - Chelan County PUD commissioners will take more public comment and have their first public discussion on the utility's proposed 18 percent electric-rate surcharge Monday at 1 p.m. at the ...

Archie was born in Bremerton Wa. June 27th 1932 and has lived in the Pacific Northwest his entire life.

Except for an isolated few, virtually all lower elevation lakes in the greater Columbia Basin are shrugging off their winter burdens.

With the warm-weather travel season just over the horizon, The Slice thought it would be interesting to interview the only guy in the Spokane area who has never taken his family over to see the Grand Coulee Dam.

We thought earmarks were going the way of the flightless dodo bird. Not so. Central Washington certainly knows an earmark when it sees one, and in the recent $410 billion spending bill that President Obama signed last week, they were popping up all over the place.