Erick Bengel

The proposed multiuse path between Dayton and Waitsburg drew widespread support but became a contentious issue before two Port commissioners — one former, another sitting — voted to halt the

DAYTON — Kelsey Gabel, a regular at Columbia County Rural Library District Board of Trustees meetings, will now attend them as a trustee himself.

Named after a Cayuse word meaning “to seek,” the scholarship is part of the college’s effort to both acknowledge its history with local tribes and to forge a better relationship with them, while providing an opportunity for education at Whitman College for tribal students,” said Jeanine Gordon, Whitman’s special assistant to the president for Native American outreach.

A theater in Walla Walla now has wearable devices to help deaf audience members feel live music through their bodies.

The 2026 State of the U.S. Wine Industry report by Silicon Valley Bank says, “The older, wine-focused cohort is aging out, and younger adults aren’t replacing them at the same rate.”

Opening Thursday and closing on June 27, the festival’s 19th season features about 30 musicians from across the country. In vineyards, wineries and the Gesa Power House Theatre, audiences will hear works ranging from classical to contemporary.

If the timeline holds, Walla Walla will have a library fit for the 21st century next year.

The onions are farmed by about a dozen growers in the Walla Walla Valley, which straddles southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon.

The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin's local printing press will shut down in mid-September , but a physical newspaper will continue to reach subscribers three days a week.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, is making people aware of the dangers of hunting, hiking, fishing and recreating in wildfire burn scars, which can have unstable soil, dead trees ready to topple and other hazards.