A team of WSU students spent more than a semester designing and creating a new sign to serve as the gateway to the College Hill neighborhood. The students began the project in January as a part of their required coursework. Even after the semester ended…

A Moscow man was acquitted last week of injuring two pedestrians on the WSU campus last December in a hit-and-run. Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier ruled May 5 that Daniel A. Noble, 31, was temporarily insane at the time of the incident…

Faculty and staff in the WSU Department of Physics and Astronomy are raising money for a new digital star projector for the planetarium in Sloan Hall. The current projector has been there since the mid-1960s and is in need of an upgrade, said Michael Allen…

WSU was the only university I applied to. Not because I was a die-hard Cougar fan, but because I had no idea what I wanted to do after high school, and I missed the application deadlines elsewhere. I decided to come here just a few weeks before school started…

While many residents are still sound asleep or nursing hangovers, Jim “The Can Man” Gannon and Elizabeth Curtiss are hard at work – helping clean College Hill of the previous night’s mess. Gannon and Curtiss have collected and recycled roughly 15,000 pounds of aluminum in Pullman every year since 2003…

The Student Entertainment Board will host the seventh annual Springfest from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday on campus. “It’s kind of just been a tradition every year to give students one last big thing before summer hits,” said Jessica Duren, SEB special events programmer…

His eyes welling with tears and voice wavering, Nate Thompson paused to collect himself as he told the story of how a drunken driver killed his older brother and nearly killed his older sister 24 years ago. Thompson, a senior management and operations major…

The ingredients for the tortillas at Carlita’s Mexican Grille & Espresso in the CUB travel full-circle around the Palouse, eventually making it from the farm to the fist. The tortilla wheat is designed by WSU researchers, farmed by WSU alumni and enjoyed by WSU students…

Hopheads can get a delicious dose of craft beer and captivating conversation at Pullman’s first and only microbrewery. Established last fall, the Palouse Falls Brewing Company has already developed a loyal customer base. Owners Jeff and Linda Greene attribute their success to a very simple business plan – make a high-quality brew and give customers a great environment to drink it in…

Every morning at 5 a.m., a student driver delivers 15,000 pounds of milk from Knott Dairy farm to the WSU Creamery. The milk eventually will be turned into Cougar Gold cheese, but the process takes at least a year to complete and requires the help of a large number of WSU students…

The WSU Police Advisory Board will present “Reporting Assaults: Breaking the Culture of Silence” today in the CUB Lounge from 4 to 5 p.m. WSU Police officers will demonstrate self-defense moves and address personal safety issues. They will also discuss how police handle assaults…

Ed Ray’s eyes welled with tears, and his voice wavered as he talked about his former comrades. Ray spoke at a ceremony dedicating a new air rifle safe Saturday afternoon in Avery Hall. The WSU Army Reserve Officer Training Corps bought the safe with a donation from Ray…

Finding furniture on a budget is something that most students will have to do during their college career. Brand-new furniture can be expensive, so students often have to get creative to furnish their pad. The old adage “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” really resonates in Pullman…

Parking rates will not increase next year, parking officials announced Wednesday. However, parking zones on campus could still be reorganized by fall. There are two main reasons for the zone changes, which are outlined in a proposal by the University Parking and Transportation Task Force…

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