Moses Lake News

The Excellence on Main Award is presented by the Washington State Main Street Program.

Nearly three months after last hearing arguments in the case, a judge ruled Wednesday that Tim Eyman's Initiative 1053, approved by voters in 2010 and requiring a two-thirds majority in the legislature to raise taxes, is unconstitutional.

A pedestrian was killed this morning near Moses Lake after apparently running across Highway 17 and being hit by a motorhome, the Washington State Patrol said.

MOSES LAKE, Wash. - Five people suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 90 this morning, about nine miles west of here.

Gordon Oliver is The Columbian's business editor. He can be reached at 360-735-4699 or gordon.oliver@columbian.com. In politics, the old adage is that the person who masters Roberts Rules of Order is most likely to win the day.

Troy Buckley might not want to hear this, but he got an assist for Cal State Fullerton on Friday night.

King County prosecutors have filed a second-degree murder charge against a 26-year-old man sought in the May 16 shooting death of another man outside a south Seattle fast-food restaurant.

There won't be a quick decision on a strongly debated proposal to change the name of central Washington's Soap Lake to Lake Smokiam.

CB's Nuts, a Kingston-based craft roaster, has teamed with Friehe Farms in Moses Lake to plant Washington State's first commercial Valencia peanut crop.

A new statewide law enforcement report shows Spokane has a higher crime rate than Seattle, Tacoma and Yakima and for a city our size; there are fewer officers on the street than we should.

KHQ continues to learn new information regarding the ongoing child abuse investigation in Moses Lake.

Twenty-five communities in Eastern Washington's arid Columbia River basin could have their municipal wells go dry as soon as a decade, according to a study of the underground aquifer that supplies their groundwater.

A 2-year-old Washington boy who authorities say was so malnourished he weighed less than half as much as a normal child his age remained on life support Wednesday after his heart stopped and he was airlifted to a Spokane hospital.

MOSES LAKE, Wash. - The Grant County Sheriff's Office released a document today detailing their findings when they arrived at the home of a 2-year-old Moses Lake boy who weighed less than 10 pounds and didn't have a heartbeat.

MOSES LAKE, Wash.-- Authorities in Grant County released more information Tuesday involving a two-year-old boy weighing less than ten pounds.

Grant County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating vandalism and theft from a weekend crime spree at a local school.

Residents of an apartment building had to evacuate their units Sunday afternoon after a fire broke out in one of their homes.

Spokane Major Crimes Detectives are investigating the discovery of a body found in the woods off of Highway 195 near 14th and Lindeke.

The crash happened on Highway 21 about 8 miles north of Republic. Both 19-year-old Kyle Kirkendall and 17-year-old Anton Hall were not wearing seatbelts and had to be taken to Sacred Heart by helicopter for treatment of their injuries.

As the highway to Mount St. Helens reopens this weekend, the Forest Service is warning of "very high" avalanche risk for people thinking of climbing the volcano.