The Daily Record

Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a four-part series on working dogs. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — Central Washington University administrators received word Wednesday that the university could face a $3 million budget cut after next year’s legislative session — if things go the way Gov. Chris Gregoire is proposing. Full Story »

CLE ELUM — The Cle Elum City Council has approved an $11.2 million budget for 2010, down slightly from the $11.4 million budget the council approved a year ago. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — These protesters were not looking for an argument. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — The Ellensburg City Council passed a rate increase for gas, water and sewer utilities, as well as a fee increase for electricity Monday night. Full Story »

For THE DAILY RECORD ELLENSBURG — Three men have been arrested in relation to a month-long undercover drug operation conducted by the Ellensburg Police Department Anti-Crime Team. Full Story »

(Editor’s note: This is the fifth installment in a seven-part Daily Record series looking at charitable efforts in Kittitas County during the holiday season.) Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — Kittitas County commissioners will conduct their own round of public hearings starting 6:30 p.m. today on proposed changes to the county’s growth plan to bring it in line with state law and comply with state land-use board rulings. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — The contents of binders that went missing from the Kittitas County’s Community Development Services (CDS) office and were later recovered during the course of a police investigation are now available for review online, the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners has announced. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — It’s a cold job, but someone’s got to do it. Full Story »

CLE ELUM — What was missing was snow. But in the end, Santa delivered. It happened Saturday night at the annual Parade of Lights during the annual Christmas in Cle Elum celebration. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — A recommendation to approve the 95-turbine Desert Claim Wind Power Project reached Gov. Chris Gregoire’s office on Friday. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — All they could do was pray. On Aug. 14, Raley Mae Radomske was five hours into what would be a grueling 10-hour surgery to remove what was likely a cancerous tumor from her brain when her parents got the bad news. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY- The disappearance of public documents from the Kittitas County Community Development Services (CDS) office is still being actively investigated, an attorney with the Kittitas County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG- Central Washington University's gerontology major is being "put on reserve," according to former program director Jeffrey Penick. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — A semi-truck fire caused the closure of University Way in front of Central Washington University’s Shaw Smyser Hall at about 4:30 p.m. Friday. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — Seasonal decorations have popped up in storefronts, sidewalks and rooftops, but there is one crucial piece missing to make it all the perfect holiday picture — snow. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — A labor union representing Kittitas County government clerical employees says a wage freeze to help balance the 2010 county budget requires reopening their labor contract, review of financial documentation and negotiations. Full Story »

CLE ELUM — Somewhere between 80 and 100 people showed up for last week’s traditional community luncheon offered the day before Thanksgiving by the Upper Kittitas County Senior Center. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG- Central Washington University's gerontology major is being "put on reserve," according to former program director Jerry Penick. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — Armed with a stack of $2 bills, my friend Janelle Holzer and I hopped in the car to go Christmas shopping. Full Story »

KITTITAS COUNTY — A state senator says Kittitas County government should work to grant lowered property values to all Upper County rural property owners adversely affected by the state’s moratorium on new, exempt wells. Full Story »

CLE ELUM — The Board of Commissioners of Hospital District 2 has voted to place an emergency medical services (EMS) levy which failed to gain voter approval in November back on the Feb. 9 ballot. Full Story »

ELLENSBURG — Bertha Morrison, 91, was just a teenager when her class went through Morgan Middle School. Full Story »

CLE ELUM — He made his first official appearances of the holiday season this past weekend in Roslyn and Suncadia resort. Full Story »