Soap Lake News

Health District leaders reported a spike in whooping cough cases on Tuesday. Doctors have seen an increase in whooping cough, pertussis, cases in the past 25 days.

In a photo taken Friday, April 19, 2013, cigarette butts fill a container sitting on the sidewalk in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of Fuller Street next to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee, Wash.

We all know that knitting is out of this world, and now those brainy-but-foolish-about-fiber-arts folks at the International Space Station know it, too.

Washington Fish and Wildlife Officers Will Smith and Chris Busching pose with 242 Lahontan cutthroat trout, a gillnet and a 2005 Toyota pickup they seized from men who have been charged with illegal fish netting at Lake Lenore in the first week of April .