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DAYTON – The city of Dayton is considering allowing licensed all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, on city streets. City Clerk Trina Cole said she has drafted an ordinance, with input from the council's s...

DAYTON – For several months, community leaders have discussed plans for an after school program for Dayton school children. Planning has been a collaborative effort, and funding has not yet been s...

Investigators are still searching for the cause of a fire late Sunday night that destroyed two homes on East Washington Avenue in Dayton. "Honestly I don't know if we'll ever find out what started...

DAYTON – Many people in Columbia County know what it's like to wake to the sound of roosters crowing. Even in some parts of town. For the caffeinated at heart in Dayton, a rooster in the morning m...

DAYTON – Executives with the Columbia County Health System are in the final stages of hiring an architect for the Dayton General Hospital upgrade approved by voters with a $5.5 million bond levy l...

WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Tysen R. Beckner, 25, was arrested last week in Idaho and now faces a felony charge of child assault in Walla Walla County Superior Court. Beckner was allegedly i...

DAYTON – Anyone driving Highway 12 can see it. The wheat fields are ripening quickly. Gone are the rolling green plains. In their place are fields of shorter-than-normal, already golden grains. And i...

DAYTON – Do you know your county building and permitting rules? Columbia County suggests you reacquaint yourself with them because officials have asked the planning department to brainstorm a way of ...

DAYTON – The cause of death remains unknown in the case of Shirley "Ben" Gano, the 88-year-old Oregon man whose body was found near Starbuck last week, Columbia County Coroner Rea Culwell told The Tim...

DAYTON – Columbia County has filed criminal charges against county resident Darlene M. Savage, 70, alleging that she has been maintaining an unpermitted salvage or junkyard on her South Touchet R...

Dayton WWII veteran Owen Agenbroad (top photo) was the first Everyday Hero to tell his story last Thursday at the Dayton Memorial Library as part of this summer's reading program . ....

WALLA WALLA – The Department of Ecology has made no official decision yet regarding a request that the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership be allowed to lease water from the Touchet E...

DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners signed the Blue Mountain Station development agreement last week with the Port of Columbia following an uneventful public hearing earlier this month. Little d...

Updated June 18, 2015 STARBUCK – Columbia County Sheriff Rocky Miller has released further details on the local search leading to the discovery of missing Oregon man Shirley “Ben” Gano, whose body...

[Editor's note: Beginning this week, The Times will feature regular updates to the 2015 Drought, including interviews with water experts, farmers, ag specialists, climatologists, business owners,...

DAYTON – Dayton resident John Garrett Waltermire, 24, was sentenced in early June to 12 months and one day in state prison after a year of multiple arrests, evasion from local law enforcement and mont...

DAYTON – Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have been on the rise in Walla Walla County all year; this month Columbia County Public Health has confirmed a case of pertussis in a D...

DAYTON – Summer swimming is in full swing, and city staff have been working to ensure not only a good experience for guests to the Dayton City Pool but also save the city money. The city purchased a...

DAYTON – Blue Mountain Counseling won't know for another week or so about the $25,000 State Farm grant it hoped to win with community support via online voting last month, but directors are d...

DAYTON – Thirty-four new adults venture forth into the world of adulthood this week. They are high-school graduates, award-winning scholars and high-caliber athletes. They are the Dayton High S...

DAYTON – What do knights in shining armor, a fire chief, a Columbia County Sheriff's deputy, a teacher and a World War II veteran have in common? They are all (or were, in their time) everyday h...

Updated June 16, 2015 STARBUCK – Authorities located the body of missing 88-year-old Oregon man Shirley Benjamin "Ben" Gano in a steep ravine not far from his vehicle just north of Starbuck off F...

DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are moving forward with upgrades to Dayton General Hospital. The board unanimously agreed on Thursday that hospital district executives s...

DAYTON – When their son, 41-year-old Dayton High School graduate Robert "Rob" Anderson, died unexpectedly on July 31, 2013, Carol and Andy Anderson wanted to find some way to honor his memory p...

DAYTON – Watching Roslyn "Roz" Edwards read aloud to a group of children at the Dayton Elementary Library, where she has worked as librarian since the '90s, is like seeing her on the stage of the Libe...