Palouse News

ON the surface, we Washingtonians look like fairly educated people. Our wheat farmers in the Palouse pack more computers and satellite connections into their tractors than a spacecraft.

Firefighters rescued an unconscious woman from a burning house in Palouse Friday night after two children escaped a blaze that is thought to have started near the kitchen.

A new coalition of atheists, freethinkers and humanists has formed in the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho, and its first major event is a celebration of scientist Charles Darwin next week.

A new coalition of atheists, freethinkers and humanists has formed in the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho, and its first major event is a celebration of scientist Charles Darwin next week.

An air stagnation advisory was posted today for a wide area of Washington east of the Cascades, but the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene areas are not included in the advisory.

Today, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and humanists in the Palouse joined forces to announce the launch of their coalition and its first event.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Heavy rain Sunday night and early Monday morning, combined with warmer temperatures and melting snow, has led to minor flooding in some areas of the Inland Northwest.

You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own.

After performing dozens of surgeries using robotic equipment, local surgeons say that going under the knife at the hands of a robot is the wave of the future.

A local company on the Palouse was recently named one of the best companies to work for in the country.

For the past several years, officials of rural school districts in Whitman County have observed steady decreases in average enrollment totals, while in Pullman the numbers have grown every year.

The town of Palouse has been hit hard and the snow's been falling all week. James Holden would normally be at work right now at Washington state university, but Thursday school is cancelled.

PULLMAN, Wash. -- This week's storm brought music to the ears of college students on the Palouse when they heard the words "Snow Day." Both Washington State University and University of Idaho were shut down Thursday, giving Cougars and Vandals alike a day off.

The meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office in Seattle, Brad Colman, said Olympia could break the record of 14 inches of snow in a 24-hour period.

Mother nature is finally making good on prediction of an above average snow fall for the Palouse.