Basin City

(Runtime 1:13)Ah, the Fourth of July. Some of my Northwest favorite memories are setting small firecrackers off with my brothers and cousins amid the…

"In the 20 years that I have worked here, I have never seen it as bad as this," says Washington State Patrol trooper Chris Thorson. "I've never seen six to eight cars, including a semi-truck, actually stopped and trapped on a highway because of tumbleweeds."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents made several arrests in Central Washington this week in Basin City and Pasco. In one case, a mother was detained even though agents were looking for her son.