drugs

An Omak woman who pled guilty to distributing meth last year receives 15 years in prison. In April 2024, police arrested 45-year-old Gabriela Abundiz in an apartment in Omak. This came after her 2017 conviction of selling drugs in Montana, when she received nearly six years in prison and supervised release...

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...

Two separate drug investigations in the Moses Lake area lead to the indictments of 10 people with nine in federal custody Tuesday.   Moses Lake Police Department (MLPD), along with the DEA, FBI, ATF and other federal enforcement agencies executed a number of search warrants at several locations.   ...

Growing numbers of teens are smoking.

Feds considering moving pot from a Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 drug. The reason individual state recreational programs are running is because the Feds really don't prosecute it anymore.

It got people talking to one entrepreneur, including the cops!

child sought help from store workers after father passes out

WA law already requires all high schools with 2,000 or more students to have at least one overdose kit on hand.

Every year, some requests cross the line and they get added to the list of more than 13,000 banned words in WA state.

  For years, WA State required all health agencies, including birth hospitals, to report to DOH all babies who were exposed to drug or alcohol use, as the DOH called it, substance-exposed infants. Now that rule has gone away. WA State Department of Children, Youth and Families adopts new procedures The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) now has issued new guidelines for dealing wit