Pend Oreille County News

The largest upcoming projects are repaving on intercity routes north of Spokane, including a 12.5-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 2 between state Highway 211 and Newport.

The Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office is investigating a case involving a dead male loon and missing chick on Yokum Lake.

Two informational meetings on the freeway progress will be Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Northwood Middle School, 13120 N. Pittsburg St., and on July 15 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley Ave.

A $1,000 reward is being offered by the Loon Lake Loon Association for information leading to the conviction of loon poachers at Yocum Lake.

While Washington state's unemployment rate continued to grow to 9.4 percent in May, Skagit County saw some of the first job increases in months.

Sackett Contracting & Excavating, of Nordman, Idaho, has won a $1.1 million contract to replace an aging gravity sewer system for the Ponderay Shores Water and Sewer District in Pend Oreille County, Washington.

A single-car crash near Ione on Thursday night critically injured the 21-year-old driver and earned him a drunken driving charge, according to Washington State Patrol.

Two separate reports, both critical of the state's child welfare system in northeastern Washington, were released Wednesday by agencies investigating an unusually high number of complaints against the Colville office of the Washington Division of Children and Family Services.

The governor is keeping her planes, but she will have to share them more frequently with state agencies.

Snow melting up in the mountains is revealing some dense, dry grass. One landowner in Pend Oreille County wants to get rid of that fuel before it sparks into a raging wildfire.

Aaarrrg, what irony! I am attempting to rehabilitate former pasture on my property here in Pend Oreille County and return it to a meadow/grass/shrub condition.

I think spring has sprung. Though, after this winter, my paranoia still hangs on and I look out the window every morning, just hoping there's none of the white stuff on the ground.

Box Canyon Dam will become friendlier to fish under a federally mediated deal that ends a decade of litigation over the structure's new operating license.

No criminal charges will be filed in the case of a Pullman woman whose car plunged off the fifth floor of a downtown Spokane parking garage in 2006, Spokane County Prosecutor Steve Tucker said Friday.

Gov. Gregoire on Monday announced $38 million in proposed federal dollars for about two dozen drinking-water projects, including a couple in Ferry and Pend Oreille counties.

City leaders say the River Park Square parking garage likely will not be re-inspected, despite requests by mall critics.

Washington's unemployment rate rose to 8.4 percent in February, up from January's rate of 7.8 percent, the Employment Security Department reported Tuesday.

Work continues on a $17.3 million North Spokane Corridor concrete arch tunnel for a BNSF rail line to pass under the new freeway.

The Spokane Tribe of Indians, sensing that it might get a better hearing from the Obama administration, appears to be getting closer to its long-stated goal of building a casino on land it owns just west of ...

New president, old story: the body counting continues in Iraq and Afghanistan where, since 2001, 305 military personnel with ties to Washington state have died.