Ione News

Two informational meetings on the freeway progress will be Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Northwood Middle School, 13120 N. Pittsburg St., and on July 15 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley Ave.

A single-car crash near Ione on Thursday night critically injured the 21-year-old driver and earned him a drunken driving charge, according to Washington State Patrol.

The Washington State Patrol says an 82-year-old Ione man died and three other people were injured in a single vehicle collision that occurred 17 miles north of Cusick.

The Box Canyon Dam is about to enter a new era - one that's kinder to fish and more attentive to the Kalispel Tribe of Indians' long history in northeast Washington.

Box Canyon Dam will become friendlier to fish under a federally mediated deal that ends a decade of litigation over the structure's new operating license.

Federal authorities have arrested nine people, seized 600 pounds of marijuana and nearly 200 pounds of cocaine from a drug ring that used helicopters to smuggle the contraband across the U.S.-Canadian border.

The pain of Detroit auto workers facing layoffs and plant closures is mirrored in the mining country of northeastern Washington.