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Presented by THE JAMES. Wednesday Weekly…January 3, 2024. This is going to be one facsinating Mountain West season. Boise State, picked second in the MW preseason poll, may be a distant No. 6 in the pecking order going into its opener Friday night at San Jose State, but let’s take a look at th

A running joke among those of us who grew up around here is how much new-comers mangle local place names. From Yakima to Puyallup to Sequim to Queets and a hundred more, Washington state regional names can be a puzzle and frustration – and, if you are a public figure (like a TV weather presenter), a continuing embarrassment and perpetual nightmare.

An intrepid group in wartime 1944 took a dream for community theater and turned it into reality. The theater in 2024 will celebrate its 80th year of staging entertainment in

WALLA WALLA, Wash.-A stretch of Fern Ave. will be closed from Bryant Ave. to Clay St. for a water service line replacement project on Thursday, Jan. 4.

There is a dense fog advisory in Pendleton and Walla Walla until 11 this morning.

As a child, Barbara Feigin fled Nazi Germany in 1940 to Chehalis, Washington. A few years ago, her late Jewish father’s journal was discovered, detailing the family’s harrowing escape from Berlin. “I knew that we had escaped from Germany, but I knew none of the details about it, and my parents never spoke about it,”

The disappearance of Lori Anne Razpotnik would remain a mystery for more than four decades, until her remains were identified last month as one of at least 49 victims of

2023 One year ago

WALLA WALLA, Wash.-The City of Walla Walla started the New Year by honoring two firefighters who lost their lives in a New Years Day fire fifty years ago.

For the first time in its 70-year history, the Port of Walla Walla has a woman appearing in the line of elected commissioner portraits.