Klickitat News

The 2009 West Nile virus season was the most active on record. Most activity was on the east side of the Cascades, but Western Washington had its share.

Applied Filter Technology Applied Filter Technology, which has an office in Snohomish, recently won a $7 million contract in Eastern Washington to design and build a digester that turns landfill trash into gas.

A NOAA plan to restore habitat for Columbia River steelhead in central Washington and Oregon would cost almost $1 billion over the next 25 to 50 years.

An insane killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution on a field trip Thursday to the Spokane County Interstate Fair was recaptured Sunday without injury more than 180 miles away in south-central Washington state.With a helicopter overhead and dozens of federal, state and local law enforcement officers swarming around Goldendale, ...

When the Washington State Ferry System sold its four scrapped Steel Electric-class ferries this year, it lost money, and the state lost a possible business and environmental-enhancement opportunity.

Klickitat Elementary and High School was one of four schools statewide to be named one of this year's No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools.

A Klickitat County man in his 50s is the state's first confirmed case of West Nile virus infection this year in a human, state health officials said Tuesday.

Aug. 22--YAKIMA, Wash. -- More than 250 firefighters were battling a series of fast-growing range fires late Friday night that blackened thousands of acres across Central Washington.

Washington's four steel electric-class ferries, taken out of service two years ago for safety reasons, are to be towed to Mexico this month to be cut up and recycled.

Washington's four steel electric-class ferries, taken out of service two years ago for safety reasons, are to be towed to Mexico this month to be cut up and recycled.

The City of Vancouver is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy on the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Board of Trustees.

Washington's four steel electric-class ferries, taken out of service two years ago for safety reasons, are to be towed to Mexico this month to be cut up and recycled.

GOLDENDALE, Wash. - A Soap Lake, Wash., woman drove a U-Haul truck off U.S. Highway 97 and landed in a creek this morning, the Washington State Patrol reported.

Rep. David Taylor wasted no time making his mark after his appointment to the Legislature in late March.

Two new grants to the Edith Bishel Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Kennewick will help expand service this month to Klickitat County.

Extra patrols will be on U.S. Highway 97 between Goldendale and Toppenish this weekend in honor of a Klickitat County sheriff's sergeant who died there two years ago.

A Camas man apparently lost control of his car on a Klickitat County curve Sunday night, colliding with another car and totalling both.

Washington State Ferries has sold four aged Steel Electric-class vessels to a California recycler for a combined price of $200,000. Launched in the 1920s in California, the Klickitat, Quinault, Illahee and Nisqually were sold to Eco Planet Recycling of Chula Vista, Calif.

Low flows and clear water have made river fishing a real challenge this week. Nearly all rivers west of the Cascade Mountains are suffering from this affliction, which has resulted in spooky fish and a sporadic bite.

"That can't still be Rainier. Is it Mount Saint Helens?" I aksed about the snow-covered volcano looming over green hills.