Ellensburg's historic buildings now have a map of their own. The city launched an online story map yesterday that lets you explore every building, district, site and object on the Ellensburg Landmarks Register. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Kittitas County commissioners have a full afternoon of public hearings today, and one of them is about data centers. At 2 p.m., the board takes up whether to extend the county's moratorium on data centers for another six months. The morator

Local kids are getting a lot more time outdoors. The Kittitas Environmental Education Network announced this week that it's launching a year-round outdoor learning series based at its campus at Helen McCabe Park. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Cle Elum is down two city councilmembers. Ken Ratliff and Stephen Cook both submitted resignation letters this week, effective immediately, and Mayor Matthew Lundh read them aloud at Tuesday night's council meeting. Ratliff, who held Posi

There will be a vintage mountain bike show at Snoqualmie Summit Saturday. Thursday, September 10th Noel Henry Walsh @ Old Skool’s, 301 W. 4th Ave., Ellensburg. All Ages/ Entry by donation. 7PM Ellensburg Community Band rehearsals, @ The Methodist Church, Ellensburg. Bring your instrument. 6PM-7:30PM Thursday Night Live with Bitterbrush @ Mike’s Tavern, 427 E. 1stSt

Saturday is the first home football game. CWU hosts top-ranked Ferris State in Ellensburg at 6 p.m. Volleyball is up north the same night, at number twenty-four Western Washington in Bellingham at 7. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Fire crews east of Snoqualmie Pass are bracing for a warmer, drier stretch this week after several days of cool, wet weather slowed all three wildfires burning north of Lake Kachess. The Three Queens Fire stands at just over nine thousand four hundred

The Kittitas County Fair opens today at ten a.m. at the Kittitas Valley Event Center and runs until ten tonight. Today is Super One Day — five-dollar admission tickets are available at Super One. Kids five and under and active-duty military get in free every day. The carnival and midway rides open at noon. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Three wildfires are still burning east of Snoqualmie Pass as the holiday weekend begins, and together they have covered roughly twelve thousand

Notable Exceptions take the Punch Stage Saturday afternoon. Thursday, September 3rd HERE is a full schedule of weekend rodeo and fair events. https://ellensburgrodeo.com/the-rodeo/schedule/ Ellensburg Community Band rehearsals, @ The Methodist Church, Ellensburg. Bring your instrument. 6PM-7:30PM Xetera @ Bruce’s Place, (Behind Ellensburg Pasta Company) 6PM-9PM Dueling Pianos @ The Roslyn Yard.

The rodeo mural is back. The painting at Third Avenue and Main has been greeting people driving into downtown for forty-three years, and it just came through a five-week restoration. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Kittitas County has a third commissioner again. The Board of County Commissioners appointed Jeff Leichleiter yesterday to fill the vacant District 1 seat, the seat previously held by Cory Wright. Leichleiter is sworn in this morning at 8:30 in Kittitas County Superior

The Hoedown in the Downtown is back Saturday evening. It runs 5 to 10 in downtown Ellensburg, it's free, and it's open to all ages. Line-dancing lessons kick it off, and then there's live music from American Honey and Jukebox Central, along with local food, drinks and rodeo-themed games. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS Part of the new pavement on Canyon Road is coming back out tonight, and the contractor is paying for it. The city inspected the freshly paved stretch between Umpt

Under The Covers Band Rocks the House at The Kittitas Cafe Saturday! Thursday, August 27th Loco Motion @ Thursday Night Live, Mike’s Tavern, 427 E. 1St Street, Cle Elum. 21+ 7PM-9PM Ellensburg Community Band Rehearsals @ Ellensburg Methodist Church. Free Bring your own instrument. Directed by Lee Bates. 6PM-7:30PM Rodeo City Bluegrass Concern@ The Mule Cocktail Bar, 119

In Cle Elum, they turned the first dirt last week on forty-one new affordable homes. HopeSource and city officials held a groundbreaking for Teanaway Court on North Short Avenue — a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom units for households earning up to sixty percent of the area median income. LISTEN TO THE NEWS HERE NEWS There's smoke in the valley again today, and there are now two fires in the mountains northwest of us. The Three Queens Fire, burning six miles east of Snoqua