Regardless of Snowmageddon in February, it's the snowpack in Cascades and elsewhere, and reservoir levels that determine what water will look like irrigation wise this year, and every year.
Kennewick Irrigation District, and others, are now saying the water levels are dropping when it comes to percentage of what is needed to deliver 'normal' or healthy levels...
Benton County Sheriff's over the weekend, discovered the driver of this SUV was not impaired in any way, probably embarrassed about how he ended up in the water.
At this time, as of Monday, authorities still don't fully know, but early Monday they got this call about this Explorer in an irrigation canal near West Richland...
Do you have any old tires laying around? Did you know mosquitoes love to breed in old tires and spread nasty diseases like west nile virus and more...do you part and get rid of old tires with a free tire drive....
You have have heard about this already, but a semi-truck driver and his load of cows are lucky to be alive (well, the cows for a little while longer) after a harrowing trip down a hillside, and almost into the Snake River.
Monday afternoon, this semi was headed to the Tyson Plant near Wallula, Eastbound on Highway 12...
Sunday afternoon, Kennewick police were called to the Clover Island boat launch, for a report of a truck that tried to 'join' the boat for an excursion.
Police say the driver was trying to pull the boat out of the water, but the truck slid down the launch ramp and ended up fully submerged...
Umatilla and Morrow County Sheriff's are asking for input and warning residents who have cattle on their acreage to keep an eye on their water supplies.
According to officials, a number of ranchers in the Weston, OR area, especially where Highway 204 cuts through some of their acreage, are reporting water valves deliberately turned off on the large cattle tanks, or valve floats being removed altog
Last summer, Grant County Sheriff's Marine Patrol officers captured this video of a fire fighting water bomber refilling on the Columbia River just below Vantage. They share it recently on their Facebook page.
The aircraft looks to be a WWII-era PBY Catalina, a widely used 'flying boat' that could land on water, or traditional airfields...