Grant County Solid Waste and Washington State Department of Ecology are sponsoring a hazardous waste collection to help make your home and environment a little safer. 

You can bring old and unwanted household hazardous waste products to the Surf 'n Slide Waterpark Parking Lot this Saturday, from 9am to 3pm, and it will be disposed of for free. Look for the words pesticides, caustic, acid, flammable, warning, danger, poison or toxic on product labels. This event is for households only and waste from farms, businesses, agencies, governments, special districts and school districts will not be accepted. 

Hazardous items include:

According to the Associated Press, eleven more cows at a Moses Lake dairy farm could have bovine tuberculosis.

The disease was first discovered back on January 8th when a cow at the same slaughterhouse tested positivie for the illness.

The State Agriculture Department says the newly suspected cows responded positive to a screening test for the disease. They have been removed from the herd for additional testing to determine whether they actually have the disease.

None of 1,350 cows in the herd can be moved while testing continues.

Milk from the dairy is safe, because it is pasteurized. No meat from the sick cows have entered the food chain.

This is the first bovine TB case seen in Washington cattle since 1988.

The state of Washington fared better than most in the American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2013 report.

The report measures state and federal efforts to enact regulations and legislation that limit access to tobacco.

Washington received an F in Tobacco Prevention and Control Program funding - 41 states and Washington, D.C., also failed that category.

"A struggling economy and weak revenue forecasts continued in 2012, dashing hopes of re-establishing Washington's once successful tobacco prevention and control program," the report said. "The prgram was victim to regular cuts and was completely eliminated at the end of the 2011 legislative session leaving Washington as one of the only states without quitline services available for residents throughout the state.