Rosalia News

To participate in a survey on bringing passenger trains back to the Palouse, go to www.surveymonkey.com/ passenger_rail. Teams of students from Washington State and Eastern Washington universities are asking for the public's help in their efforts to visualize what renewed rail service on the Palouse might look like some day.

The city of Pullman takes its name after George Pullman, a 19th century industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car - a railroad passenger car designed to accommodate passengers for the purpose of nighttime travel.

Longtime Islander Middle School teachers, Janet and Mace Brady, have retired from the Mercer Island School District.

A 22-year-old Washington State University nursing student was killed Friday after losing control of her vehicle while trying to pass other cars on two-lane Highway 195 north of Rosalia.

One person is dead and two are injured after two cars collided head-on on Highway 195 near Rosalia early Friday afternoon.

Thanks to record high prices two years ago, Washington's wheat farmers probably did not break even this year.

All the streets downtown are open again, and the 71st annual Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torch Light Parade is in the books.

Before the Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade ever hit the streets, the Spokane Lilac Festival had already announced some of this year's winners.

Students from Washington State University-Spokane and Eastern Washington University are studying a possible rail line between Spokane, Pullman and Moscow, Idaho.