Serving Franklin County, WA
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OLYMPIA – The state Board of Health is wading into manure management with a proposed “odor management” rule. But farmers are calling bull, noting its duplicative and unnecessary overregulation of animal waste by the state. Under the Dairy Nutrient Management and Federal Clean Water Acts, manure is already regulated by the state Departments of Ecology and Agriculture. State Board of Health officials declined to comment on the objection It calls a “misconception” in a so-called fact sheet available online. According to the fa...
OLYMPIA – It looks like there will be no state gas tax holiday for Washingtonians despite President Joe Biden’s endorsement of the idea. On Wednesday, June 22, the president asked that Congress suspend the 18.4 cents per gallon federal gas tax for three months. “Today I'm calling on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for the next 90 days, through the busy summer season, busy travel season,” Biden said. The president also called on states to take action on high gas prices. “But we can also cut gas prices even more in a...
BURBANK — A motorcyclist was taken to a Richland hospital Tuesday after his Harley-Davidson struck another vehicle. Rodney D. Sackett, 64, of Irrigon, Ore., was eastbound on state Highway 730 at 6:38 a.m. on his 2008 Harley-Davidson approaching Wallula Junction at the time of the crash, the Washington State Patrol reported. John L. Mattila, 55, of Weston, Ore., was westbound on U.S. Highway 12. Sackett turned onto westbound Highway 12 at Wallula Junction and struck Mattila's 2007 Kenworth construction truck and 2011 Smith d...