Tractors revolutionized how farmers worked their land, but they sometimes came with a deadly price.
More farms operated in Walla Walla County a century ago. But they weren’t as large as those we have today.
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Union-Bulletin on April 3, 2016.
The following commercial building permits and permits for residential projects costing more than $75,000 were issued by the city of …
COLLEGE PLACE — Light tillage was the job of the afternoon on a spring day at Hayshaker Farm.
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Union-Bulletin in June 2005.
DAYTON — The executive and assistant directors for the Dayton Chamber of Commerce have announced they are resigning.
“If anyone worked harder than the farmer, it was his wife.”
By the time the 1919 Tractor Show opened in Walla Walla, it’s likely farmers here were on the edge of their non-tractor seats.
Massive combines have begun transforming much of the Palouse from waving fields of wheat into vast expanses of stubble. But the farm…
People living in the early 1900s in the Walla Walla Valley saw a lot of changes, including the introduction of automobiles, telephon…
In less than a week, all of the Walla Walla Valley will be invited to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an event they might not b…
A news item in the Walla Walla Bulletin on Friday, April 25, 1919, reported the following:
1830 — About 250-300 labor hours required to produce 100 bushels of wheat using a walking plow, brush harrow, hand broadcast of seed…
Smart Foodservice, the greater Portland area-based wholesale food distributor previously known as Cash & Carry, plans to supply …
A steady stream of patients strolls in and out of the doors of chiropractic doctor Stephen Trapani’s office, a quiet oasis in the mi…
The following commercial building permits and permits for residential projects costing more than $75,000 were issued by the city of …
Bankruptcies are filed under these headlines:
Kevin Coleman needed “Something Good” as much as anyone when the idea for a new app came to him.
COLLEGE PLACE — “It looks a lot like something else,” Matt Hardy said, looking out at his field of industrial hemp plants alongside …
Once he’d found his seat, Anson Harold, 2, did not want to get out, even as he was urged by city employee Scott Holbrook at the door…
Kidney care provider Fresenius Medical Care is building a new facility on Avery Street and will ultimately move its service out of t…
The Isaacs Avenue construction zone will become a party pit this weekend in a family-friendly celebration designed to mitigate the e…
When construction on Isaacs Avenue closed both an entry point and an exit to the two-laned Coffee Cravings shop, owners made lemonad…
MILTON-FREEWATER — A repair business gaining visibility around the world is putting this town on the video game map.
Two local organizations will benefit from community grants from Columbia Rural Electric Association.
Drink Washington State and Eternal Wines will soon be down to one tasting room.
A Portland transplant with career roots in strategic planning, business management and corporate finance will be the Walla Walla Val…
It was no straight path for Cynthia Hatch to Halo Hair Studio.
More than 20 hours into contractions and almost as much time with restless family members ambling in and out of the labor and delive…
Over a decade ago, a concern about the purported rapid growth of the county led to sightings of the bumper sticker: “Don’t Bend Wall…
PENDLETON — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation is the new owner of Hamley’s.
