Klickitat County News

Yakima and Klickitat counties are receiving part of $3.3 million in loans and grants to create job and business growth.

Jane Gutting, superintendent of the Educational Service District 105, plans to retire next year.

A major wind energy company has received $19.4 million in federal renewable energy grants to spur completion of huge turbine project in Washington's Klickitat County that will provide renewable energy to California municipalities.

Wind and pedal power dominated a hearing this week on Yakima County's plans for road maintenance and construction next year.

Puget Sound Business Journal Cannon Power Group phot The Cannon Power Group is building a $1 billion wind farm project in Klickitat County.

Rep. David Taylor didn't meet his campaign fundraising goal; then again, his opponent dropped out following the primary so he didn't really have to.

A Goldendale man died Tuesday night in a two-vehicle collision on Bickleton Highway, authorities said.

Documents obtained by KOMO News show that an independent investigation into Pacific Police Chief John Calkins found the chief twice violated "commonly accepted standards of conduct for law enforcement officers and chiefs of police." The Pacific Mayor Rich Hildreth requested the review by the Klickitat County Sheriff's Office after our earlier ...

The Klickitat County Sheriff's Office is looking for assistance in identifying a suspect in an attempted rape that happened in late summer.

The Klickitat County Sheriff's Office released this sketch of a suspect sought in an attempted sexual assault at an orchard in Alderdale.

Almost 30 years after the concept first cropped up in local discussion, a world-class golf course at the Columbia Gorge Regional Airport is still alive and kicking.

Siemens Financial Services Inc. said Monday that it has loaned Windy Point Partners II $178 million to finance expansion of a wind project in Washington state.

A cattle drive -- the old-fashioned, horseback kind -- brought traffic to a halt in Bickleton on Friday afternoon.

The criminally insane killer Phillip Paul called KREM 2 News from Eastern State Hospital Monday night.

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.

An Eastern State Hospital patient who killed an elderly woman 22 years ago was recaptured last Sunday without injury after he slipped away from hospital staff on Sept.

But the gifts being shipped to our state, will come at a smelly price. Garbage from Honolulu will be taken to the Roosevelt landfill in Klickitat County.

Some of Hawaii's trash is headed to a landfill in Eastern Washington. Oahu starts shipping trash Monday under a contract signed in August with Seattle-based Hawaiian Waste Systems.

The head of Eastern State Hospital has resigned amid widespread outrage over the escape last week of a schizophrenic killer during a hospital-sanctioned outing to a Spokane fair.

The Spokane County Sheriff's Office will submit a $37,000 bill to the state for the cost of hunting down escaped Eastern State Hospital patient Phillip A. Paul.