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With the end of the 2013 regular session in Olympia, Rep. Matt Manweller has opened a 13th District legislative office in Ellensburg.

Manweller’s new office will be located in the Sun Lake Business Park next to the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic. It

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ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Representative Dave Reichert has introduced a bill that would designate a stretch of scenic landscape from Seattle to Ellensburg as a National Heritage Area.

The Mountains to Sound Greenway encompasses about 1

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Central Washington University has announced that Dennis Francois (Fran-swah) will become the school new athletic director. He is currently the associate athletic director for external affairs in the Athletics Department at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa

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A 60-year-old Ellensburg man died in a mobile home fire on Thursday. Investigators with the Ellensburg Fire Department say firefighters found the man's body after dousing flames at the Hillcrest Mobile Home Park in northwest Ellensburg just after 7:00 p

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Rep. Matt Manweller has drafted a bill that would allow, but not require, the Kittitas County TV Reception Improvement District to provide an excise tax exemption to television owners receiving satellite television service

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Rep. Judy Warnick will be holding office hours in Ellensburg Wednesday, Oct. 17. She invites people to drop in, ask questions, share ideas, or just say “hi” to their 13th District representative.

“Sometimes it’s not easy for folks from Kittitas Co

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OLYMPIA – Gov. Chris Gregoire tonight extended a burn ban for all counties east of the Cascade crest, prohibiting all outdoor burning through midnight Sunday, Sept. 30. An emergency proclamation declaring a State of Emergency remains in effect, and allows continued air support from Washington’s National Guard to help fight ongoing wildfires

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Ellensburg-(AP) A park in downtown Ellensburg will be dedicated Saturday in memory of Washoe, the first chimpanzee to communicate with American Sign Language.

Washoe came to Central Washington University in 1980 with Professors Roger and Debbie Fouts who researched communication with chimpanzees

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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Central Washington University says thick smoke from wildfires has prompted it to move Saturday's home football game against Azusa Pacific University from the CWU campus in Ellensburg, Wash

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Air quality in Ellensburg has reached hazardous levels as a result of smoke from north and central Washington fires.

Wenatchee air quality has been hazardous since Sept. 12, according to data gathered by the Washington Department of Ecology

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