KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Six counties in south-central Washington have been approved to move to Phase 2 of reopening and can immediately ease COVID restrictions, the state Department of Health said...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — All but six of Washington state's 39 counties will be in Phase 2 of the state's economic reopening plan as of Sunday, with five new regions meeting the requirements necessary...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $39 million.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had net...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Police have identified one of the victims in Friday's shooting at a Walla Walla home.

The Walla Walla Police Department said Saturday that 72-year-old Gerald W....

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — An inmate at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla has become the third incarcerated person to die in a state prison from COVID-19.

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Public health officials throughout the state have resigned or been fired in recent weeks as coronavirus case counts reach record highs.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $36.5 million.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had net...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A local team of art researchers has proposed moving the Marcus Whitman statue from its current spot at the Whitman College campus to Fort Walla Walla Museum where the...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A man has been sentenced for the murder of a 35-year-old man in Walla Walla.

Colby Hedman was sentenced this week to more than 27 in prison for the premeditated...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $23.5 million.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had profit...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Officials in a county in southeastern Washington state are retracting their claim that some people in held parties in which they intentionally exposed themselves to the...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Some people are intentionally flouting health recommendations by exposing themselves and others to COVID-19 in Walla Walla County, officials said.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Monday reported first-quarter profit of $16.9 million.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had profit of...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Walla Walla City Council unanimously approved on Wednesday a $2 million line-of-credit from Baker Boyer Bank to help with flood-recovery efforts

UMAPINE, Ore. (AP) — Two members of law enforcement shot a person in eastern Oregon near the Washington state border, police said.

Deputies from the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office and...

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WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit of $33.7 million.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had profit...

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WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say two people were pulled from a burning home in Walla Walla.

Walla Walla Fire Chief Bob Yancey says authorities responded to the blaze Friday night...

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Almira/Coulee-Hartline 58, Soap Lake-Wilson Creek 14

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WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — The arraignment for a man accused in the killing of a Whitman College employee has been continued for the completion of a competency evaluation.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been charged with killing a Whitman College adviser.

The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports Colby Hedman appeared in Walla Walla Superior...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A woman has been arrested in Washington state in the abduction of a car salesman during a test drive, a television station reported.

MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. (AP) — Police have arrested a woman in connection with the stabbing death of a man in Milton-Freewater, Oregon.

The East Oregonian reports that 22-year-old Shayla Fawn...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state health officials have confirmed a gonorrhea outbreak confined to a single county.

The Union-Bulletin reports that the Washington state department...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $39.7 million.

The Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had net income of $1.14 per...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Department of Corrections says a tower officer at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla shot and wounded an inmate who had been assaulting another...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Legislature has given final approval to a measure that guarantees that nurses and other hospital staff will get regular rest and meal breaks.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state couple has pleaded not guilty to killing a man by selling him the heroin that caused his overdose death.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A Walla Walla man pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, including assaulting a police officer, and was sentenced in Walla Walla County Superior Court.

PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The Tri-Cities experimental syringe exchange is losing its Pasco home.

The Tri-City Herald reports the Franklin County commission decided Tuesday to stop providing office space to Blue Mountain Heart to Heart, which in January alone collected 18,000 dirty needles.

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ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — An interim director for the Walla Walla Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington has been named as the new permanent director for the Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Oregon.

The News-Review reports Keith Allen will take over from interim director Kevin Forrest on March 17.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) _ Banner Corp. (BANR) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $37.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.

On a per-share basis, the Walla Walla, Washington-based company said it had profit of $1.09.

The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.05 per share.

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Anacortes 65, Nooksack Valley 34

Arlington 77, Shorewood 59

Auburn 63, Auburn Riverside 59

Bainbridge 60, Chief Sealth 49

Bellevue Christian 52, Vashon Island 30

Bellingham 59, Squalicum 56

Blanchet 55, Franklin 45

Bothell 67, Issaquah 59

Camas 65, Sunset, Ore. 46

Capital 66, Shelton 52

Cascade (Leavenworth) 54, Highland 26

Cascade Christian 46, Seattle Christian 29

Cashmere 66, Omak 57

Cedar Park Christian (Bothell) 49, Granite Falls 39