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The goal of a meeting today at the Walla Walla School District was to find a “super” superintendent.

Closing the Main Institution at the Walla Walla Pen remains at the top of the list, but only if the state can come up with 41 million dollars.

Action News investigates the drugs, charges and questions that linger after a collision that killed two young Burbank men last Halloween.

Talk about money going down the drain: one billion gallons of treated water are wasted each year in Walla Walla because of leaky water lines. But the problem runs deeper than that. The city’s sewer lines and streets are also in need of repair.

She's not your typical cage fighter, but that's not stopping a Walla Walla grandmother from trying. DeEtta Petersen is 49 year old. She is a mother and grandmother, but age isn't stopping her, it's pushing her.

What's President Barack Obama's most annoying habit? Practicing his speeches for hours in front of the bathroom mirror? Talking too much foreign policy at the dinner table? Not so.

It wasn't just a banner year for marijuana busts, pulling pot plants in Burbank hit a new record. Walla Walla deputies tell Action News they got rid of 134,000 plants. That's quarter of a billion dollars pulled off the streets, the biggest ever for the county and maybe even the state.

A $15,000 state grant could be the first step towards making Downtown Walla Walla a historic district.

WALLA WALLA - The Walla Walla Bread Company just opened up and we're taking a look at what they've got bakin' in the kitchen.

A funny thing happened on the way to remaking the Toon Disney channel into one that catered to "tween" boys: It got a lot more popular with girls.

In the 16th Legislative District, Rep. Laura Grant-Herriot hopes to keep her seat and remain Eastern Washington's only Democrat from outside Spokane. Grant was appointed earlier this year after her father passed away.

We're in the thick of the growing season, and not for apples. From Walla Walla County to Cle Elum, officers are making history busting huge marijuana grows. As of last month, authorities seized more than 150,000 pot plants statewide and much of it is grown right in our region.