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After enjoying several months without delays or lane closures, drivers on Interstate-90 may soon experience both as seasonal work on the Vantage Bridge (Medal of Honor Bridge) starts up again.

The I-90 Vantage Bridge is fully open after WSDOT paused construction for winter. Work on the $79 million deck replacement resumes in spring 2026.

I-90 across the Columbia River is about to face 24/7 lane closures. Here’s how long it’ll last and what travelers should know.

A brush fire blackened approximately 200 acres in West Central Grant County on Monday afternoon. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says the Road R Fire sparked at around 3 p.m. and rapidly spread through sagebrush and hay fields in hot and windy conditions in the vicinity of Roads R Southwest and 11 Southwest near State Route 26 on the east side of the Vantage Bridge...

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...

A Washington State Patrol trooper has injuries after his patrol vehicle was struck near Vantage on Monday. A State Patrol report indicates the incident occurred at around 3:30 p.m. on Interstate-90 in the eastbound lanes of the Vantage Bridge when a sedan driven by 27-year-old Aaron P...

A Grant County man is behind bars after police say he caused a traffic accident while driving intoxicated and fled the scene on New Year's Day. The Washington State Patrol says it happened at just before 6 p.m. over the Vantage Bridge on Interstate-90 when 25-year-old Jose Torres-Montalvo of Quincy attempted to pass a dump truck in his sedan and collided with its front end...

Drivers on Interstate-90 can now check the real-time status of traffic at the Vantage Bridge. The Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) has updated the travel times page at its website to include the state's only Interstate span across the Columbia River...

An East Wenatchee Police officer has pled not guilty to felony charges stemming from an alleged road rage incident in Kittitas County earlier this year. The Daily Record newspaper reports 40-year-old Landon Jensen entered his plea to charges of second-degree assault and unlawful display of a weapon in Kittitas County Superior Court this week...

The next phase of a multi-year project to replace the deck of the Vantage Bridge on Interstate-90 (I-90) will begin later this week. On Thursday (Sept. 5), traffic in both directions over the bridge will be reduced to a single lane, 24 hours per day, seven days a week, until November...