Kahlotus News

When I see people getting food at a food bank who drive a nicer car than mine and who are wearing nicer clothes than mine it makes it hard to feel sorry for them.

Tuesday night three communities joined together to help a family. People from Washtucna, LaCrosse and Kahlotus held a benefit dinner to show support and raise money for Drew Swank's family.

A 38-year-old Kennewick man was killed and another man seriously injured this morning at 10 a.m. in a farm accident outside Pasco, the Franklin County Sheriff's department reported.

A large underground marijuana-growing operation discovered and dismantled near Kahlotus last year should have been a coup for the Tri-City Metro Drug Task Force.

Late in the summer of 2008, Herald reporter Paula Horton learned the Tri-City Metro Drug Task Force was in turmoil, with its leader suspended from work.

Farmer Kevin Bowlin had no idea there were rows of pot growing amid his rows of corn.

Both Benton & Franklin Counties have extended the filing deadlines in the races where there are no candidates.

The lightning storm that moved through the region last night kept fire crews busy in rural Franklin County.

The small Franklin County town of Kahlotus -- maybe more accurately described as an extended family of 220 people -- is reeling from the deaths of two brothers who were community leaders.

Two men are dead after being overcome by fumes Friday afternoon outside of Kahlotus.

Two Kahlotus men died after being overcome by fumes from a gas-powered pump while trying to draw leaking water from a cistern, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says two Kahlotus, Wash., men died after they apparently were overcome by fumes while working in the bottom of a cistern with a gas-powered pump.

A 64-year-old man pleaded innocent to allegations that he had an empty beer can in the center console of his car when stopped for swerving on the Pasco-Kahlotus highway.

A teenage boy was arrested after fleeing from Franklin County sheriff's deputies during a traffic stop Sunday night on the Pasco-Kahlotus Highway, deputies said.

A man gets in an accident and is located by dispatchers through the GPS system on his cell phone.

Franklin County dispatchers used GPS coordinates from a cell phone to help find a badly injured motorcyclist early today.

Nearly a million dollars worth of marijuana plants were found off the Pasco Kahlotus Highway.

A study of a proposed interchange at Highway 12 and Tank Farm Road has been completed, but the $28 million project will sit on the shelf until someone ponies up the money to build it.

There's no sanctioned way to get to the Juniper Dunes area, but once you're there you'll soon have some place where you can, well, go.