Tony Boyd took a well-deserved nap Friday after helping save seven homes in the Omak countryside—and losing one he rented, containing many of his family’s belongings. On the outside of a home on Dutch Anderson Road, he slept—awaking to the sound of barking, a warning signal. He got up to see…

OMAK—All that remains of their home is the rock work, the stairway that wrapped from the daylight basement upward, the two levels of walls where their grandchildren’s play set (now melted and burned) still sits and the chimney. The rocks are now charred and cracking behind the wake of the Tu…

When Colville tribal members Virgil and Lenora Michel purchased land in the Omak countryside almost 50 years ago, a sense of pride carried with the next three generations who have shared the family home, known widely as, “The green house.” Remaining children of the couple joke that they didn…

OKANOGAN—A building that once held slot machines now—at least temporarily— houses donations for fire victims and local firefighters.

DISAUTEL – The way Phillip “Cubby” Barnaby sees it, someone had to stand in the way of the Major League Baseball pitch that was the Tunk Block Fire—part of a state-record Okanogan Complex that has now reached 256,567 acres.

OMAK — The author behind a senate bill mandating Washington’s public schools to teach a curriculum incorporating the 29 federally-recognized tribes of the state lacked satisfaction from a similar bill that saw a low turnout after a decade of implementation. 

$2,500 offered to information in regard to vandalism of Tribes’ Dream Catcher

BRIDGEPORT – The Colville Confederated Tribes’ purse seine, the Dream Catcher, was vandalized in the early mourning hours today, July 14, in what appears to be a hate related act.