WENATCHEE — Glenn Wilson doesn’t have a job in the traditional sense of the word, but the work he does is making an impact for many in the homeless community.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
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Throughout her life, Hailey Shaw has felt invisible.
For Memorial Day 2021, The Wenatchee World researched the area’s military history to compile a list of those who died while deployed to war.Â
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
LEAVENWORTH — On Tuesday, Ryan Cairnes snapped a picture of the dirt, removed the camera’s memory card and then put it in his pocket. It was a throwaway, but at least now the authorities would have an idea of when he was last alive should he die.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
WENATCHEE — A mental health crisis center lauded by Gov. Jay Inslee as a statewide model for providing mental health care laid off 10 of its medical staff last week.
WENATCHEE — The empty kayak was stuck in a whitewater rapid, its straps wrapped around a log. Kyle Mahuika and two of his friends were on the shore of the Wenatchee River, trying to find a way to recover it.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
Reporter Tony Buhr spent eight months interviewing county officials and discussing the problems at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center. He also toured the jail twice, once in October, 2018 and again in May, 2019. These three articles are the result of that effort.
When a group of East Wenatchee property owners signed a set of covenants in 1953 that would govern their country club neighborhood, the first item on the list was the exclusion of any non-white homeowner.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
The data center industry is growing in North Central Washington, but do its citizens want them?
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
LEAVENWORTH — There’s a peanut butter and jelly sandwich that Gregory Lebovitz will likely never forget, even though he doesn’t remember how it tasted.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
The marijuana industry statewide is expanding by leaps and bounds, becoming a nearly $1 billion industry in retail sales last fiscal cycle.
EAST WENATCHEE — There are few people in the world who know more about cryptocurrency mines than Anton Gykalo.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Maria del Carmen López Sanchez doesn’t have time to worry about the Trump administration's proposed immigration changes that could affect her family.
WENATCHEE — Investigation documents into the 2017 fatal shooting of Matthew Folden by a Wenatchee police officer align with what investigators have said about the shooting and the events that preceded it, but they also reveal that key evidence was mishandled at the scene.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
WENATCHEE — Confusion, terror and pain reigned on Aug. 6, 1974, when a railcar holding volatile material exploded in a switching yard in South Wenatchee.
