WATERVILLE — An East Wenatchee man who admitted to sexually abusing a young girl has been sentenced to a year in jail.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Homeschooling families are invited to find out more about Eastmont’s new hybrid partnership program at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sterling Intermediate School library, 600 N. James Ave.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a drought emergency in Chelan County.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College campus fountain will turn into a fishing pond Wednesday for the annual Fountain Fishing Derby, sponsored by the WVC Student Senate.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — The community is invited to Tuesday’s dedication of the new and improved Cascade High School, a $25 million expansion and remodel project that got started in earnest about two years ago.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A round of testing for lead in drinking water is keeping plumbers busy in the Wenatchee School District.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — New double-door vestibules designed to make Wenatchee schools safer will take another year.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wildfire season is coming, and the state Department of Natural Resources is readying for a long summer.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
PHILADELPHIA — A federal tax on soda could benefit the public good, according to an economic analysis released Monday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Native American elk hunter, citing an 1868 treaty between his tribe and the U.S. government as it revived his legal challenge to a conviction for hunting out of season in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.
SPOKANE — Spring flowers can get a bad rap when it comes to the season of itchy, watery eyes and exacerbated asthma, but biologists from Eastern Washington University and Washington State University say it's mostly wind pollinators to blame for allergy season. Unfortunately, wind pollinators…
OLYMPIA By early August, school employees will be able to see exactly how much they'll pay per month for health care plans offered through a statewide system being rolled out in January.
OLYMPIA — New Direction. Enterprise Washington Jobs. Mainstream Voters of WA. Conscience of the Progressives.
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. said on Monday it will eliminate about 10 percent of its global salaried workforce, cutting about 7,000 jobs by the end of August as part of its larger restructuring in a move that will save the No. 2 automaker $600 million annually.
WENATCHEE — Two shots were fired Friday night in a Wenatchee neighborhood and police are searching for suspects.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
NCW — Many candidates got lucky this week after no one signed up to run against them.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
NCW — By the end of the week, many candidates found themselves facing competition for the coming election.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Five-year-old Maverick looked at the collection of mounted insects with curiosity, pointing out wasps to his parents.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Though normally prohibited, ATVs will be on Saddle Rock next week.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Parents and staff at Washington Elementary School and the Early Childhood Learning Center used to parking on the street might have to come up with a new plan next year.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — The Douglas County PUD Commission on Monday instituted a moratorium on new power contracts with data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — The main Wenatchee Shopko store will close Sunday, but its optical department will continue to operate as a freestanding store.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
Stoned drivers in Washington state are most likely to get in crashes between 4 and 5 p.m. and on Saturdays, according to a recent study of Washington State Patrol data conducted by a Seattle personal-injury law firm.
WENATCHEE — Bids are expected to go out next week for the first phase of the Wenatchee Public Library’s year-long $2.5 million remodel.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Update, 4:30 p.m. Friday: Highway 28 at milepost 5 in Rock Island has been reopened.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
SEATTLE — Boeing said Thursday it has completed development of the software fix for the 737 MAX flight-control system that malfunctioned on the two flights that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia and has finished simulator and flight tests of the new system.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
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
PLAIN — In December 2012 a winter storm slammed the Upper Valley, leaving a trail of destruction.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — On June 7 last year, Anthony Wilson, an 18-year-old Eastmont High School student, died in a motorcycle crash on Colockum Road.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — The city is trying to cut back on its water use and reduce the amount lost to leaks.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Prosecutors filed new charges against a Leavenworth man accused of firing warning shots at a railroad crew last October.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EPHRATA — Grant County PUD employees will keep working on a plan to build new transmission lines into the Quincy area. Utility district commissioners gave the go-ahead after a three-hour explanation at the regular commission meeting earlier this month.
EAST WENATCHEE — Twenty new certified lead-free water fixtures installed this spring in four Eastmont schools are living up to their promises, according to the latest test results.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
NCW — The National Weather Service issued a flood watch today for Chelan and Douglas counties that forecasts up to an inch of rain and some thunderstorms.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Results are in for the city’s April 13 recycling event.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The city’s youth track and field recreation program runs from Monday through June 15.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A retired Chelan elementary school teacher pleaded not guilty to accusations that he molested a former student.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
MALAGA — Tanya Mahre plants her microgreen seeds with precision: She starts in the corners of the tray, then works down the edges, and then to the middle.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
EAST WENATCHEE — Julie Stimpson-Lewis, a 1976 Eastmont High School grad, HIV survivor and founder of the 30/30 Project, is the Eastmont Foundation’s Distinguished Alumnus for 2019.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — For Billye Tollackson, working as a nurse at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center has meant seeing medical things she didn’t even know were possible.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
OLYMPIA — As the affordable-housing crisis spreads beyond Seattle, Washington lawmakers this year took steps to spur building and improve laws for renters to help prevent them from becoming homeless.
I have great admiration for those with the inner sense peace to take life as it comes and accept the disasters and foibles with as much grace and dignity as successes. They are truly the happiest and most content people on earth.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a full pardon for former media mogul Conrad Black, who was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent 3-1/2 years in prison.
LONDON — A global health trust is to inject $102 million into finding more modern and effective treatments for snakebites — a “hidden health crisis” that kills 120,000 people a year and maims thousands more.
WENATCHEE — Seven of the area’s top law enforcement officers were recognized Wednesday at an annual ceremony.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
TAOS, N.M. — The small city of Deming, New Mexico, has become the latest U.S. border community to declare a state of emergency after dozens of migrants were released in the town by federal authorities seeking to cope with a surge in asylum seekers coming across the southern U.S. border.