Latest

• Health costs break from economic trendWASHINGTON — Provisions in the Affordable Care Act that penalize hospitals for excessive readmissions and encourage employer wellness programs are ...
• Driver arrested in death of soccer ball dribblerSALEM — The driver Oregon police say fatally struck a man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles from ...
• US military plans would put women into combat rolesWASHINGTON (AP) — Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding ...
• Wake-up call: Starbucks to post calorie countsNEW YORK — Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.
• University programs that train US teachers get mediocre marksWASHINGTON — The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to ...

Local News

• Walla Walla School Board to weigh Lincoln High rebuildWALLA WALLA — The Walla Walla School Board on Tuesday will consider a accepting a committee report to build a ...
• Emergency Services - 6/18/13Information is compiled by the Union-Bulletin staff from the official logs and records of area law enforcement and emergency service ...
• Bomb squad takes suspicious items from Walla Walla homeWALLA WALLA – Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad members seized items from a home last night after a concerned citizen ...
• Man sentenced for pointing gun at officerWALLA WALLA — A Benton City man has been handed a time-served sentence for pointing a loaded handgun at a ...
• Trial scheduled in Walla Walla-area police chaseWALLA WALLA — A local man pleaded innocent Monday afternoon in Superior Court to leading a Walla Walla police officer ...

Local Sports

• Baker Boyer, Tom's advance at All-City Little League tourneyWALLA WALLA — Defending champion Baker Boyer and Tom’s Chevron earned semifinal victories Monday night during session two of the ...
• Walla Walla Sweets ride past RoguesMEDFORD, Ore. — The Walla Walla Sweets rode solid pitching and heads-up base running to a 6-4 victory over the ...
• Walla Walla Cubs 16U takes sweep from Sun DevilsMOSES LAKE — The Walla Walla Cubs 16U squad picked up a pair of summer baseball victories over the Moses ...
• Cubs 14U fourth at 'Waterpark' tourneyMOSES LAKE — The Walla Walla Cubs 14U placed fourth at the Little League Legends “Waterpark Party” tournament here over ...
• A's lose 8-7 in opener of four-game series at TexasARLINGTON, Texas — Oakland Athletics rookie Dan Straily outpitched an ace in his last visit to Rangers Ballpark.

Business

• Correction: Golf tournament dateThat’s fore. Not four.
• The Muscle Shack grand opening tonightThe Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce will do some heavy lifting with its scissors this evening as it welcomes ...
• Barb Commare joins Tourism Walla WallaA familiar face in the wine and restaurant industry is at Tourism Walla Walla.

Editorials

• Internships can benefit employee and employerSome unpaid interns are exploited as free labor by large and small businesses, and that’s wrong. But other interns — ...
• USPS needs Congress to level its playing fieldKeeping the U.S. Postal Service in a political vise — squeezed between Democrats and Republicans — is ridiculous.
• Effort to get reliable input on new Wa-Hi plan is wise Did School District officials have a clear sense of what the public was willing to fund when a $69.6 million ...
• City decision to fund electrical work could have a political costThis week’s decision by the Walla Walla City Council to use $66,000 from the $11.6 million police station bond fund ...
• Lawmakers must focus on budget — nothing elseThe state Legislature started its second overtime session on Wednesday, less than three weeks from budget doomsday (or, without the ...

Letters to the editor

• Electrified fences, poison moats not the answerThe solutions to immigration reform and securing the border that Abel Carreno proposed in his June 9 guest column on ...
• Let’s look at ‘real’ scientistHere it is Father’s Day 2013 and the U-B letters page is once again partially consumed by one of our ...
• Use Walla Walla police bond funds for police Let’s think seriously before we start using the police station bond funds for a $66,000 electrical upgrade at City Hall.
• Human-caused climate change can’t be proven? On June 10, a U-B front-pager read, “Pollution on a ‘dangerous trajectory’” citing an International Energy Agency report that mirrored ...
• Community commercial kitchen neededPeople in Walla Walla represent a wide income range, including many who are struggling with poverty and food insecurity.