Costs, supreme court ruling among factors in trail concept

Heavy traffic on North Palouse

While Colfax officials discuss improvements to the North Palouse River Road, the river itself still provides a pleasant commute for a variety of waterfowl on a frosty winter day.

A potential pulling of the rails on the inactive railroad between Colfax and Pullman has led to a review of the railroad property’s potential use as a trail. The fate of the Colfax-Pullman link is expected to be one of the items in an overall strategy plan now being prepared for the PCC rail system, according to Bob Westby, administrator of the railroad office at the regional state Depar...