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Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says.

Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says.

Tekoa's Empire Theatre will present "Forgotten Freight" in concert Saturday, August 2 at 7 p.m. Rooted in traditional banjo-driven bluegrass, this Moscow quartet has won fans throughout the Palouse with their ...

Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production.

Times are good for wheat farmers, but they should resist the urge to harvest their crop residue and sell it for ethanol production, a federal researcher says.

From today's Whitman County Gazette : By Joe Smillie, Gazette Reporter While a large portion of the county was walking around the Colfax High School track at the Relay for Life Friday night, record low ...

My father, who was quite an innovative inventor, once told me that all inventors became just that out of laziness. I don't think that is true but it has some merit.

A person must find a need to make something work better, be easier, more efficient in order to come up with the reason for inventing a contraption to help.

Such appears to be the case with Raymond Alva Hanson, who was recently honored at a dedication in Palouse at Heritage Park for his invention of the self-leveling attachment for combines that made farming the Palouse Hills much more practical. One of his first jobs as a teenager was to stand on the combine platform and adjust the machine to the lay of the land - a very tedious and hot job.

It's arguably the coolest new business in town. Kiwi Air just set up shop in Clarkston next to the Quality Inn.

Two recently-logged areas on the Palouse Ranger District will be open for personal use firewood cutting from July 9 to September 30.

The rolling wheat fields of the Palouse are often compared to ocean waves. That makes for nice scenery, but it was lousy for farmers who tried to use conventional combines to harvest some of the nation's most ...

Commentary from a free market conservative viewpoint on current events in Pullman, the Palouse and Washington State from the ultraconservative gadfly, Thomas Hussein Forbes, the Forbes Gang cheering ...

Downtown Palouse will come into full bloom this weekend as the town celebrates its fourth annual Art Walk event.

A coalition of conservation groups opposed to a new golf course at Washington State University has sued the school, arguing that a recent court ruling invalidates the majority of the university's water rights.

The new 18-hole golf course at WSU keeps popping up in the news. That's because it will take a lot of water to keep the fairways green.

Andrew Flodin's application for Town Council has been approved and he will be taking over for Clark Johnson. Andrew plans to remain on the Planning Commission.

Welcome Brian Dentler. After a week of field training with Jerry Neumann and Joe Merry, our new police officer went out on patrol beginning June 30.

Kevin Pickron recently joined the Planning Commission, bringing the member roster up to the full seven.

Poe Paving was awarded the sidewalk contract for Second Street. They plan to begin this project at the end of July.

North Korea has begun receiving porridge from the Palouse. A shipment of wheat from Washington arrived this week as part of a United Nations effort to help people whose crops were wiped out by floods.

The iconic rolling hills of the Palouse presented a challenge to farmers trying to harvest the fertile but often steep slopes before 1946 when Raymond Hanson, a farmer and engineer in Palouse invented a self-leveling control for hillside combines. Sunday, July 13, a two-ton Salmon River Jade rock with a plaque honoring Hanson's contribution will be placed in Heritage Park in Palouse at a public ceremony designating the plaque as a Historical Agricultural Engineering Landmark.

"This is a great opportunity to celebrate the contribution that Dr. Hanson made here in Palouse," said Palouse City Council member Mike Milano. "He made more farm land accessible and also made farming safer."

Over the next three years, $540,000 will be invested in providing education for mental health professionals on the Palouse thanks to a grant funded by Health Resources and Services Administration, a part of the ...

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Idaho Panhandle and Eastern Washington for today and Tuesday as the region continues with near record heat.

The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs just announced it's CityArts awards, totaling $225,000 to 38 individual artists working in visual, literary, film, and media arts.