Walla Walla News

Spokane native Dan Donohue is mesmerizing audiences this season as the title character in Shakespeare's "Richard III" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theater.

If pitchers' duels are the best games in baseball, then Thursday's high-scoring slugfest between the Wenatchee AppleSox and the Walla Walla Sweets was a terrible night.

Renowned winemaker Caleb Foster, whose roots in the Walla Walla wine industry were planted more than two decades ago, has been named head winemaker and general manager for Richland-based J. Bookwalter.

The Chris O'Leary Band plays blues and roots music July 13 at Sapolil Cellars winery, 15 E. Main St., Walla Walla.

Seattle Shakespeare Company's free Wooden O productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Julius Caesar start performances tonight, July 10. Both productions will perform in park venues throughout King County and then transfer to Walla Walla, WA as part of Shakespeare Walla Walla.

If you've always wanted to be part of the Sweets team, then don't miss your chance to be "Coach for a Day" on July 18th.

In this photo taken on Tuesday afternoon, July 8, 2014, Melody Griffin, 11, launches into a cool 360 spin off the diving board at the public swimming pool in Prescott, Wash.

A Pasco man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges he has been fencing stolen goods for years to resell in a Mexico store.

Pleasant Street will be closed from Sturm Avenue to Holly Street starting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow and will reopen to traffic by 5:00 p.m. on Friday.

A photo of Walla Walla High School student Hans Bauman will be displayed when logging in to TestOut LabSim, said Wa-Hi technology teacher Dennis DeBroeck.

The Spring Creek Supper Club, which features Spanish inspired cuisine paired with Mid-Columbia wines, starts at 6:30 p.m. July 11 at the Gesa Power House Theatre in Walla Walla.

The Cybertron Regional was BRUTAL, to put it lightly. Scooby Doo, King of the Hill, The Flintstones, and The Simpsons sounds almost like a Final Four in and of itself.

Walla Walla Vintners' 2012 Cabernet Franc was the No. 1 pick by judges during the competition.

Glasses of red wine are prepared for judges during the 2014 Walla Walla Valley Wine Competition.

July is a great time to drop by your local bookstore to get great ideas for summer reads and book events.

A 29-year-old inmate of the Walla Walla County jail escaped custody Friday while allegedly stealing his mother's car.

On a recent Saturday, Cheryl Bierwagen was in Walla Walla, Wash., sipping wine and chatting with friends outside a 13,800-square-foot mansion that boasts two vaulted ceiling living rooms, a motorcycle-theme lounge with its own stage and a master suite with a family-size hot tub.

Today's focus is on two excellent wineries with vineyards in Washington's Red Mountain Appellation, located just west of the Tri-Cities.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. Decanter World Wine Awards presented the L'Ecole N 41 2011 Estate Ferguson from Ferguson Vineyard in the Walla Walla Valley with its prestigious International Trophy for Best in Show, Red Bordeaux Varietals over 15 at the DWWA ceremony in London last night.

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