Palouse News

Even in 2010, growing up gay isn't easy. Add in the complicating factors of being a mentally challenged, bi-racial guy who wants to wave around pom-poms in a small town, and you have a recipe for the most hellacious high school experience in Eastern Washington.

S., Seattle . In recent paintings by Gaylen Hansen, one of the greatest living Northwest painters , you'll see many of his recurring figures: a cowboy , wolflike dogs, tulips, gloves, and ... ducks.

Fifty rail cars filled with toxic chlorine gas are on their way to the Washington Palouse from British Columbia.

A male cheerleader at Garfield-Palouse High School in Palouse isn't content to do typical male stunts or be the mascot.

I see the basement dwellers are out in force tonight, doing all they can to shore up their fragile lives by picking on the easy target.

I didn't half-mind "Fired Up," but half a mind is more than it deserves. It's "Wedding Crashers" with high school seniors and bras and panties, as opposed to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson and copious toplessness.

A male cheerleader at Garfield-Palouse High School in Palouse isn't content to do typical male stunts or be the mascot.

Ben Grundy wants to be treated like everyone else on the cheerleading squad. Instead, the 17- year-old senior at Garfield-Palouse High School says he's been treated differently because he's the only boy on the team.

The line between creepy and romantic can be blurry when it comes to stalking, said Margaret Mount, outreach advocate from Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse in the CUB on Thursday.

The next Make: television video highlights an InvenTeam from the Garfield-Palouse High School in Palouse, Washington.

The Palouse to Pines Loop is the newest link in Audubon Washington's Great Washington State Birding Trail, a series of guides to the state's best birding sites.

It's a stretch, but I can see a parallel between college football's letter-of-intent signing day and NASCAR's Daytona 500.

Classes are canceled Monday, but there is no shortage of things to do. The Center for Civic Engagement will be sponsoring several community service projects throughout the day around town.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day brought sunshine and service to the Palouse on Monday.

PULLMAN a ' An earthquake like the 7.0 magnitude temblor that shook Haiti Tuesday, is unlikely to happen in the Quad Cities region.

Since 2004, Mike Yates, at right, and his wife, Debbie, have bought and renovated several buildings in Pullman and Colfax, including a former car dealership building now known as Market Square.

US officials have given Vancouver, British Columbia-based Canexus permission to park fifty rail cars filled with several thousand tons of liquid chlorine on the Washington Palouse during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

J odi Johnson-Maynard will tell you this is not a quest. It's not her personal mission or a scientific crusade.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect from 4:00 a.m. to noon Saturday for portions of Central and Eastern Washington.

Regional Theatre of the Palouse has openings available for its winter Performance Workshop that begins Tuesday.