CHELAN — School is being delayed for second graders due to a positive COVID test. As the Lake Chelan School District was bringing back preschool-kindergarten-first and second grade students this week, they received news a second-grade staff member tested positive for COVID.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Board of Health on Monday unanimously extended the renewal of food business permits by three months.
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This page will be regularly updated as new COVID-19 cases in North Central Washington are reported by health officials.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans signaled Tuesday they are not giving up their effort to shut down the vote count on Election Day in Pennsylvania, hours after the Supreme Court delivered a significant win to Democrats by permitting absentee ballots in the pivotal battleground to arrive later.
Election Day is two weeks away, and Americans are voting early at a record pace.
OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday put the fate of his Liberal government on the line, saying an opposition push to probe how Ottawa is tackling the coronavirus would be put to a confidence vote on Wednesday.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Health District is considering creating six committees focused on different areas of public health that will give it public feedback.
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LAKE WENATCHEE — Rescuers recovered a lost, hypothermic Marysville hunter early Sunday morning after searching through the night near Meadow Creek.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The COVID-19 pandemic may force a reckoning for Amtrak’s long-distance routes, bringing about cuts that critics have long urged but that passenger rail advocates in and out of Congress say could undermine the service’s mission.
A boat heads down the Columbia River south of Odabashian Bridge earlier this month. The new Residence Inn by Marriott hotel can be seen under construction near Walla Walla Point Park in the background.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday pushed for a comprehensive COVID-19 relief package, saying he would accept a deal worth more than $2.2 trillion despite opposition to large spending measures among his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals, and called for action.
One of my students told me that North Central Washington has five seasons: fall, winter, spring, summer and smoke season.
Groups with opposing views gather at opposite sides of the intersection of Chelan and Orondo avenues on Saturday afternoon. The Women’s Rally for Justice was held at Memorial Park on Saturday and ended with people waving signs on the east side of Chelan Avenue while Donald Trump and Loren Culp and anti-abortion supporters stood on the west side of Chelan Avenue and can be seen in the foreground.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will have their microphones turned off during parts of the final presidential debate on Thursday, the Commission on Presidential Debates said Monday night.
EAST WENATCHEE — What a difference a weekend makes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Pennsylvania's Republican leaders on Monday, and left in place a ruling that says late-arriving mail ballots will be counted as long as they were mailed by Election Day.
EAST WENATCHEE — Chelan and Douglas counties are facing another increase in COVID-19 cases, but are better prepared due to public support for safety practices.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a “strong recommendation” for mask-wearing by both passengers and operators on planes, trains, buses and taxis to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
YAKIMA — State Rep. Tom Dent, who is up for re-election, has COVID-19, he told NewsTalk-KIT Radio on Monday.
SEATTLE — The Northwest Justice Project’s online self-help website will be redesigned to make it more accessible with help from a $224,400 federal Technology Initiative Grant.
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BELLINGHAM — The closure of the U.S.-Canada border has been extended another month to Nov. 21, according to a tweet from Canadian Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair on Monday.
SEATTLE — Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz on Monday denounced ongoing property destruction and violence targeting officers in light of a first-degree assault charge filed last week against a 19-year-old Kirkland man who is accused of striking an officer in the head with an aluminum …
RICHLAND — It took a jet, several drones, nine months of planning, 7 miles of empty road and one very fast car, but now Jerod Shelby and his Richland hyper car company have a new world record.
KENNEWICK — The number of COVID-19 cases jumped by 147 over the weekend, bringing the total in Benton and Franklin counties since the start of the pandemic to 9,678.
NCW — Tiffany Gering is far outraising her opponent Dale England in the race for Chelan County commissioner District 3.
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KENNEWICK — Energy Northwest is the partner in two projects picked for a new Department of Energy program to demonstrate new advanced nuclear power reactor designs.
SEATTLE — Washington's colleges and universities were braced for a big drop in enrollment this fall, expecting college kids to opt out of remotely taught classes and defer their educations for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.
SEATTLE — Underscoring the uneven impact of the pandemic, sales of the most expensive Seattle-area homes surged in the third quarter of the year at more than double the rate of the area’s most affordable homes.
ROSLYN — A small group of mostly volunteer firefighters armed with drip torches carefully set fire to a portion of Roslyn Ridge one afternoon last week.
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Tom Dent is running to hold his current position of Legislative District 13 Position 1.
WINTHROP — Adrianne Moore, 38, has spent her adult life purposefully working in the community to improve the lives of working families.
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Jeff Neher, the longtime Cordell, Neher & Co. partner, is retiring after more than four decades of public accounting, after creating a rich legacy of business leadership and community service.
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DRYDEN — Not everything can be fixed with legislation and not all laws do what lawmakers believe they will do.
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CHELAN — Dale England has faced a few controversies in Chelan County over the years and been cleared of all of them.
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CHELAN — Dale England wants to keep Chelan County’s economy strong by focusing on tourism, while still preserving the industries and lifestyle that give the county its identity.
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Tiffany Gering, a candidate for county commissioner, is concerned about the number of lawsuits that Chelan County is facing.
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SPOKANE — An unnamed company has filed permits to build a massive distribution facility in Spokane Valley that bears similarities to an Amazon fulfillment center.
A Grant Public Utilities District (PUD) project to move its customer billing and information system to a cloud server is set to be completed in November.
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, is hoping to secure his fourth term representing Washington’s Fourth Congressional District when he squares off against Doug McKinley, D-Richland, in the general election on Nov. 3.
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WENATCHEE — Early results from the community-wide COVID testing has prompted officials in the Wenatchee School District to move ahead with plans to bring back preschool through second-grade students.
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WENATCHEE — A local business Friday was the victim of a cyber attack from an email purportedly from the Chelan-Douglas Health District with an attached zip file titled “Phase 2 Guidance.”
OLYMPIA — Dr. Kathy Lofy, Washington’s top public health officer, will leave the state’s health department at year’s end, she said in a Wednesday news briefing.
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