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A Mattawa man is charged with first degree arson after being accused of starting a brush fire that put several homes at risk. Police say they were called to an Ephrata home about a suspicious man on the back porch, but instead found 28-year-old Rey Gomez in a nearby field starting brush fires ...

Samaritan Family Physicians and the Grant County Health District are holding a Johnson and Johnson vaccine event in Ephrata Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The doses will be distributed at the Ephrata Port District on Grumman Ave near the airport ...

The Grant County Health District and Samaritan Family Physicians are holding a mass vaccination event in Ephrata on Saturday. Appointments are available between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. for people in Phases 1A or 1B Tiers 1 and 2. Shots will be administered at the Ephrata Airport on Grumman Ave ...

The Soap Lake Police Department is providing information about what they're calling a slow pursuit that occurred on October 21st. It began when Sgt. Spencer Nulph found a car that had reportedly been stolen in the 23-hundred block of Road B NE ...

A 27-year-old Ephrata man, David Blackman, died Saturday after getting into a fight at a birthday party Friday night. Grant County Sheriff's Spokesman Kyle Foreman says they were called to a home on the 1100 block of State Route 28 West where they found Blackman unconscious receiving CPR from partygoers ...

State fire assistance has been mobilized in support of local firefighters working to contain the Coulee Meadows Fire located in Douglas County, near Ephrata. The blaze began a little before 8:00 Thursday night and as of the last report was about 250 acres and threatening homes, crops and the Palisades ...

A 9th Grant County resident suffered a COVID-19 related death according to the Grant County Health District. The person was an Ephrata man in his 60s with underlying conditions that put him at higher risk for severe complications from coronavirus ...

A wildland fire near the junction of Highways 282 and 17 south of Ephrata drew a multi-agency response Monday afternoon. Grant County Fire District 13 Battalion Chief Casey McDonnell says they got the call about 1:30 with smoke showing from Ephrata ...

Grant County Fire District 13 and Ephrata Fire crews say an out of control burn destroyed a trailer Monday in the Rimrock Meadows area. In a Facebook post, crews discovered a demolished camp trailer upon arrival and a wildfire that was roughly a half-acre in size and threatened a home ...

The city of Ephrata will have chlorinated water by summer 2020 due to instruction passed down from the state's Department of Health. The chlorine is used to maintain water cleanliness. "There is nothing wrong with our water. It's just that the health department has given us instruction that we need to do that under their guidance and we're going to honor that," said Mike Warren, city adm