WSDOT and local governments have now completed 50 highway projects receiving American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. A ribbon cutting ceremony will celebrate the completion of two Recovery Act projects and one state-funded project in Moses Lake on October 22. Nationwide, over 8,000 highway projects are now approved for federal stimulus funding and nearly 4,700 are under way.

SEATTLE - Using electricity in Washington has impacts as far away as Montana and Wyoming. That's the message from a Wyoming rancher, LJ Turner, who is in the Northwest this week to tell people about the damage done to his area by coal mining. Turner has joined what's called the "Dirty Little Secret Tour," organized by the Sierra Club's Northwest office, which estimates Washington utility companies get about 20 percent of their power from coal mined in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. It's where Turner's family has ranched since 1918.



"We're losing the pasture, we're losing our air, we're losing our water. I don't know what else there is going to be left for the coal industry to take from us."

Hoquiam, WA - Strong-Arm Robbery was the charge when a man forcibly took his mother's purse on the East side of Hoquiam yesterday. The 20 year old Hoquiam man stole the woman's purse and keys when she refused to give them to him just before noon Tuesday. The man then ran into the brush near the Olympic Stadium.

Hoquiam Police Chief Jeff Meyers tells KBKW "He tried to run into the brush there and the officers found and arrested him." The Hoquiam man was arrested by Hoquiam officers shortly after being reported, and booked into the Grays Harbor County Jail on charges of Robbery and Assault.