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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...

If you love food and if you love music, this event will likely be worth the mini-road trip!

Grant County's Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET) releases it's annual report for 2024. The INET report says Grant County saw 34 overdose deaths in 2024. INET says 14 of those deaths came from Fentanyl, while 13 came from Methamphetamine and seven came from a combination of alcohol, cocaine, benzo's and other opioids...

Grant County Sheriff's Office recognizes community law enforcement officers and their work to protect the community. Grant County Sheriff Joe Kriete presented awards to numerous law enforcment officers, detectives, state troopers, corrections officers, attorneys, and more during a ceremony Friday...

An Ephrata lock and key shop mints a coin assisting Grant County Sheriff's Office's K9 unit. Spokesperson for the Sheriff's Office Kyle Foreman says G&D Lock and Key made the $20 coins, which have the likeness of Maile on the front of the coin and the Columbia Basin K9 Association logo on the back. ...

Investigation launched into fatal crash involving Ivan Torres in George. Torres is said to have lost control of vehicle on SR 281.

Ephrata Police Department releases the cause of death for the inmate who died New Year's Eve in Grant County Jail. According to a release, the Grant County Coroner's Office determined 31-year-old Richard Lambert died from sepsis due to peritontis and his death has been ruled an accident due to a bicycle crash on railroad tracks days before his arrest...

A 32-year-old Quincy man makes his initial court appearance today for an alleged controlled substance homicide. According to a Grant County Sherrif's Office press release, Yakima County's Law Enforcement Against Drugs task force arrested Abraham Cristobal Flores Velazquez Thursday...

Royal City Police Department's K9, "Ollie," has new protection. Thanks to local efforts from Grant County PUD and the Grant County Industrial Alliance (GCIA), Ollie now has a ballistic vest to guard him. In early January, GCIA's Chuck Sutton and Lisa Karstetter, along with Grant PUD's "Pay-it-Forward" program representative Chuck Allen, presented $2,500 in donations to help pay