Franklin County News

Law enforcement agencies throughout the State of Washington will conduct extra DUI patrols from June 21, 2013 through July 7, 2013.

The Board of Fire Commissioners for Franklin County Fire District 3 will hold a public meeting next week to discuss putting the levy to continue funding for emergency medical services up for a vote.

The bank raised the money by raffling off picnic baskets and setting up donation boxes.

The Oregon Employment Department says the state's unemployment rate has dipped below 8% for the first time since the recession in the fall of 2008.

395 just north of Pasco. Franklin County Sheriff's Deputies say she was found just about a half-mile east of the Country Mercantile resting in a wheat field.

Dozens of crime scene photos were shown in court Monday as a forensic scientist described where he found bullet fragments, blood and other evidence after the fatal shooting of Judy Hebert.

A North Idaho woman went missing Sunday in Franklin County. Police are searching for the girl who was on her way home from Hermiston, Oregon to Sandpoint, Idaho.

Members of Leadership Tri-Cities Class XVIII left a legacy that will help generations of veterans transition to civilian life.

A Pasco firefighter vents the attic of one-story Pasco home that was severely damaged by a fire about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Deborah Davis gently rolled off a ripe blueberry from a cluster with a mix of blue, purple and green berries at Berry Blue Farms near Burbank.

Franklin County commissioners voted 3-0 Wednesday to approve a new 30-acre residential development to be built northwest of Pasco.

After listening to the recording of a 45-minute interview with Judy Hebert’s neighbor, Superior Court Judge Cameron Mitchell stuck with his earlier ruling that Pasco detectives can be used by the defense to question her statements.

This may come as unwelcome news to voters in other parts of Washington: King County has even more weight to throw around in statewide elections now.

A Franklin County man accuses the Pasco School District of using public resources to support its bond campaign to build new schools earlier this year.

Between May 20th and June 2nd, extra law enforcement patrolled county roads looking for drivers using electronic devices or riding without a seatbelt.

Judge Cameron Mitchell enters the Franklin County Courthouse before making a decision in the murder trial of Tashia Stuart, who is charged with first-degree murder with aggravating circumstances and attempted first-degree murder.

Frank V. Sanchez was found dead in his home on the 1400 block of Fairway Road shortly after 9 a.m. Sanchez had a gunshot wound to the head and police believe he was killed sometime between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office.

"Let them eat cake." Noah Greenwald, ecologist at the Center for Biological Diversity's Portland office, seems as out of touch as Marie Antoinette before the French Revolution.

Living in a home on the same property as your mother-in-law can be stressful enough.

Spot-O-Faith Farm's operator Linda Christiano said she has received checks totaling about $2,400, as well as donations of feed and hay for the farm, and some new volunteers.