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Local pharmacists worry as patients switch to mail order

Local pharmacists said they first learned they could be losing hundreds of customers after patients began calling them early this year. Suddenly, patients insured by Kaiser Permanente were told they would need to fill maintenance medications exclusively through the company’s own mail-order p…

Edey named player of the year

Zach Edey spent the days following Purdue’s historic NCAA Tournament loss lying low, his phone turned off, along with the rest of the outside world.

His VIew: It’s time to put the woke bogeymanback to sleep

I recently wrote about the counterproductive tactics of self-described “woke” social justice warriors. Several respondents seemed to agree with my point that fanatics are giving a good cause a bad name but were disappointed that I failed to address the other side of the coin. Well, here we go.

Inspired to enlighten

For nearly its entire history, the small town of Colton has supported a dual school system: a coeducational public grade and high school, a parochial grade school, and — for 50 years — a Catholic high school for girls. Two different orders of nuns ran the girls’ high school: the Benedictines…

Pullman's Rico's adjusts to the times

PULLMAN — Tawny Szumlas sat at the bar of Rico’s Public House in Pullman sampling a savory pot roast, vegetable and Guiness stout stew, destined to headline the establishment’s St. Patrick’s Day menu.

Local pharmacists worry as patients switch to mail order

‘Protecting children’ is behind book access bill, senators say

BOISE — The Idaho Senate voted 26-9 to pass a bill Thursday night aimed at restricting minors’ access to materials deemed harmful in public libraries and in schools.

Keeping Lena Clean

Advisor Colin Briggs, right, and members of the GQ (Genuine Quality) Club at Lena Whitmore Elementary School in Moscow traded their regular lunch meeting for a neighborhood trash cleanup. GQ members meet once a week and work on giving back to their school and community.