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Fireworks are the alleged culprit for a wildfire sparking in Grant County Saturday morning.  Grant County Fire District 13 says they responded to the 1300 block of State Route 28 West at approximately 1:23 a.m. Firefighters arrived to find flames burning in brush on both sides of the highway, west of a nearby trailer park.  ...

A Grant County man is dead following a single-vehicle accident near the Vantage Bridge on Saturday morning. The Washington State Patrol says it happened at around 9:10 a.m. when 29-year-old Dakota A. Lazier of Moses Lake was exiting from Interstate-90 to State Route 26 on the east side of the bridge and failed to negotiate a curve in his sedan on the connecting ramp...

Police in Grant County are searching for a suspect in connection to a single-vehicle accident who left the scene in Ephrata early Wednesday. The Ephrata Police Department says it happened around 6:30 a.m. near Plum Street and Peach Tree Lane where a sedan was discovered flipped over and resting on its roof...

A man in Quincy is dead following a shooting early Wednesday morning. Quincy Police Department says officers responded to a public service call at 7 a.m. about a man lying in a yard in the 200 block of I Street SW. Investigators found the man dead with gunshot wounds and they believe the incident occurred sometime between 12:30 a...

A Yakima man is in jail for robbery in Moses Lake. According to Moses Lake Police Captain Jeff Sursely, officers responded to Walmart on Stratford Road for the report of a theft in progress at approximately 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers located the suspect's vehicle and observed evidence of drugs in the car...

A Grant County woman has injuries following a three-vehicle accident five miles north of Moses Lake on Sunday night. The Washington State Patrol says it happened at around 9:10 p.m. on State Route 17 when a pickup truck driven by 39-year-old Ana S...

A Moses Lake man is in jail following a high-speed pursuit that covered over 40 miles through two Central Washington counties on Monday night. Authorities say the pursuit began after officers spotted a vehicle traveling the wrong way on streets in downtown Moses Lake...

Two women are recovering after becoming stranded on the Columbia River while paddle boarding near Vantage and requiring rescue. The Ellensburg Daily Record reports marine patrol units with the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of the two women in distress at around 4 p...

A data breach exposes personal information of hundreds of Grant PUD employee and retirees. The utility company says the breach impacted nearly 850 employees and recent retirees on the payroll from March through April 2024. Senior Manager of Compliance and Risk Glen Pruitt says the breech did not impact customers...

A pair of household hazardous waste collection events will take place in Grant County in the coming weeks. Residents can bring a variety of items to the events for safe and proper disposal, including paint, gasoline and automotive fluids, yard and pool chemicals, batteries, and fluorescent light bulbs and tubes...