WENATCHEE — Confluence Health recently joined a Seattle-based health care system in a venture into the mail-order business to provide specialty medicine.
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WENATCHEE — Confluence Health recently joined a Seattle-based health care system in a venture into the mail-order business to provide specialty medicine.
World staff writer
WALLA WALLA — After a peculiarly wet and cool spring, the summer harvest is a bit behind schedule for wheat, seed and pulse farmers in the Walla Walla and Touchet valleys — but what’s getting loaded into trucks looks like a bumper crop.
FRESNO, Calif. — California labor officials have issued civil penalties to an employer that fired a group of farmworkers it misclassified as independent contractors; labor experts say the landmark decision could have a “profound” impact on the agriculture industry.
WENATCHEE — The sizes and locations of three proposed Microsoft buildings along the Malaga Alcoa Highway were published online Friday.
Since retiring as publisher of the newspaper in 2018, it has been gratifying to have the opportunity to continue writing a column for the newspaper and also pitching in to help out with Wenatchee Valley Business World with their annual event honoring young leaders who are making a difference…
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Most people know almost nothing about it. They have grown up in a world virtually free of the disease. They don’t know the fear of an epidemic, when in a matter of weeks an infectious disease can paralyze hundreds of people in one small community, most children. They haven’t seen every ward …
WENATCHEE — The local nurses’ union at Central Washington Hospital voted to ratify a new, three-year contract, addressing some of the issues intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NCW — As Eastern Washington experiences more frequent and intense wildfires, communities and businesses are finding economic opportunities amongst the ashes. Read more
WENATCHEE — Confluence Health recently joined a Seattle-based health care system in a venture into the mail-order business to provide specialty medicine.
World staff writer
WALLA WALLA — After a peculiarly wet and cool spring, the summer harvest is a bit behind schedule for wheat, seed and pulse farmers in the Walla Walla and Touchet valleys — but what’s getting loaded into trucks looks like a bumper crop.
FRESNO, Calif. — California labor officials have issued civil penalties to an employer that fired a group of farmworkers it misclassified as independent contractors; labor experts say the landmark decision could have a “profound” impact on the agriculture industry.
WENATCHEE — The sizes and locations of three proposed Microsoft buildings along the Malaga Alcoa Highway were published online Friday.
Since retiring as publisher of the newspaper in 2018, it has been gratifying to have the opportunity to continue writing a column for the newspaper and also pitching in to help out with Wenatchee Valley Business World with their annual event honoring young leaders who are making a difference…
Publisher Emeritus
Most people know almost nothing about it. They have grown up in a world virtually free of the disease. They don’t know the fear of an epidemic, when in a matter of weeks an infectious disease can paralyze hundreds of people in one small community, most children. They haven’t seen every ward …
EAST WENATCHEE — Plans for a new fruit packing and refrigerated storage facility north of East Wenatchee were recently approved by the Douglas County Hearing Examiner.
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WENATCHEE — The local nurses’ union at Central Washington Hospital voted to ratify a new, three-year contract, addressing some of the issues intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority will likely sell more acreage in the Cashmere Mill District as it has lost money there — in a way.
SEATTLE — After a year and a half, the Seattle City Council has voted to end COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery stores.
WENATCHEE — Local nonprofits, community agencies and small agricultural businesses qualify to apply for part of $4 million in grants from the federal American Rescue Plan Act through Chelan County.
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State demographers just released their 2022 population estimates for Chelan and Douglas counties. The punchline: Not much growth from a year ago.
WENATCHEE — Chelan County PUD commissioners on Monday officially shortlisted two developers for the Fifth Street Redevelopment project.
JOHN DAY DAM — Barge travel across the John Day Dam lock continues to be slower than normal due to a broken guidewheel, which helps move the lock gate along concrete walls.
COULEE CITY — “It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do ever since I was a little kid,” said Jeremy Roberts, a wheat farmer, despite the struggles with inflation and droughts.
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Many of our young professionals 30 under 35 class of 2022 have an entrepreneurial spirit and a determination to rise above. They come across as very self-aware and are looking for purpose to their life, not just to their career.
Creating a budget is a crucial task for any business. It helps owners, executives and managers estimate revenues and expenses, set goals and closely monitor costs throughout the year.
SELAH — A large cherry processing facility northeast of Selah which drew objections from dozens of area residents, a local business and several agencies was approved late last month by a Yakima County hearing examiner.
Barbara Mushlitz knows that what she is doing is darn near unprecedented. Not just in the world of fashion, but just in the world of humans. She’s 88, she’s a business owner, and the business she owns has been in business for 49 years.
WENATCHEE — It’s official: a pilot program allowing police to collect donations and provide immediate relief is coming to the Wenatchee Valley.
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WENATCHEE — Entrepreneurs, real estate agents and curious locals got a close-up look at available spaces and buildings in downtown Wenatchee Wednesday.
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WENATCHEE — Sewer utility customers who live outside city limits will no longer pay more than customers who live within the city after a unanimous Wenatchee City Council vote Thursday night.
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EAST WENATCHEE — An East Wenatchee orchard operator is temporarily barred from hiring foreign farmworkers through a widely known visa program after a federal investigation found the company shirked its legal responsibilities, jeopardized workers’ safety and health and verbally abused them.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said this week he’s looking for compelling signs that inflation is cooling before the U.S. central bank will let up on what’s so far been its most aggressive set of interest rate hikes in decades.
SAN FRANCISCO — alifornia cannot seek environmental concessions from five Native American Tribes during negotiations to renew their contracts to operate “Las Vegas style” casinos, a federal appeals court held.
COEUR D’ALENE — Motorists taking advantage of electric vehicle tax breaks contained in a $739 billion Senate bill introduced this week will be well-served by existing and planned infrastructure in the West, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday.
EAST WENATCHEE — Starting next year, East Wenatchee residents will be responsible for maintenance on the irrigation lines that run through their property.
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TACOMA — Taco Street, the Waterfront Market restaurant at the center of a Mexican food mixup with Point Ruston and the Tacoma Farmers Market, issued a response to the three-day controversy Tuesday.
RITZVILLE — The Bronco Inn, a Best Western hotel in Ritzville, was recently selected for a Travelers’ Choice Award by the online travel company Tripadvisor.
Television and movies often tug on the heart strings of nostalgia when they portray a country doctor. This is the stereotypical white-haired doctor with his black bag who still makes house calls, serves as the town sage and dispenses care of all sorts.
EAST WENATCHEE — After nearly 11 years of serving local homeless people, PowerHouse Ministry Center is closing at the end of the week.
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A strong new argument for Congress to help save local journalism came from an unexpected source.
EAST WENATCHEE — A squirrel caused 1,064 Douglas County PUD customers to lose power Tuesday morning along Sunset Highway in East Wenatchee.
BAKER FLATS — A Douglas County PUD hydrogen facility is inching closer to completion with sub-grading and rock work underway near the Shell station on Highway 2/97.
WENATCHEE — Before it had the AppleSox, the city of Wenatchee had the Chiefs, a minor league baseball team founded in 1937 that operated until 1965.
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WENATCHEE — Chelan County Community Development is cracking down on unpermitted short-term rentals (STRs) being run out of homes.
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WENATCHEE — Illegal property conversions in Chelan County continue to be a problem as many property owners look to apply for a short-term rental permit.
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WATERVILLE — Judge Brian Huber heard arguments Thursday morning on whether to dismiss a lawsuit against Confluence Health by nearly 100 former employees over the state's vaccination mandate.
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FARNBOROUGH, England — Electric aircraft concepts are everywhere at the Farnborough Air Show this year, often merely mock-ups of early prototypes developed by startups.
BURIEN — Saying it’s time for the state to up its game in recruiting law enforcement officers, Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday announced a proposal to create four regional police training campuses so new cops aren’t forced to take 19 weeks of classes far from home.
WENATCHEE — Last fall, as soaring cryptocurrency prices touched off yet another round of investor mania, one of the biggest crypto miners in Washington state was already watching the exits.
WENATCHEE — In just two short months, visitors to the Wenatchee Valley will have another option for where to stay.
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OLYMPIA — Washington state is not constitutionally obligated to harvest forests or maximize revenue on state land, the Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously.
The pandemic walloped Pamplin Media Group, an Oregon newspaper publisher providing local coverage in dozens of Portland-area communities.
The city of Wenatchee is on the cusp of a radical transformation with three major developments on the edges of downtown that could collectively cost $300 million in an eight-block area.
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It might be a little like latching the barn door after the horses have left, but it’s still good to see Yakima County commissioners calling for a local moratorium on solar farms.
QUINCY — The simple act of missing an email recently cost the Port of Quincy $350,000.
EAST WENATCHEE — After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, East Wenatchee’s Aviation Day is back under a new name.
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