When Spain calls, students at Pullman High School know to answer. A group of nine PHS students left Thursday morning for an atypical backpacking trip around Spain. Accompanied by Tina Fernandez, a Spanish teacher at PHS, the students will experience rural tourism…

WSU has launched a new campus in the virtual world of Second Life. The launch is an opportunity to provide an improved education experience for distance degree students, said David Cillay, the assistant dean of the Center for Distance and Professional Education…

The Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center in Moscow celebrated its annual Appaloosa Fest on Saturday. The fundraising event drew people from all over the Palouse region to enjoy an afternoon of horse rides, raffles and history exhibits. Appaloosa Fest is put on by the museum every year to show the community what the museum has to offer…

After serving as the College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences’ Extension Information Specialist for almost 30 years, Dennis Brown is retiring. Brown’s duties as the Extension Information Specialist required him to write about the many facets of the CAHNRS…

The novel, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan, will be handed out to freshmen during Alive! orientation after a donation from WSU alumnus William Marler made it possible to reinstate the Common Reading Program. This April, President Elson S. Floyd sent a letter to faculty members announcing the suspension of the Common Reading Program due to the university’s budget issues…