EAST WENATCHEE — The East Wenatchee Wendy’s is set to open next week at 12 Grant Road, in the Hobby Lobby parking lot.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Movies are coming back to Wenatchee Nov. 6. But for those looking to catch their first flick in a theater in months, the mask-on viewing experience will be a bit different.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Health Officer wants families to keep their ghouls, goblins and gremlins at home this year.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
BLAINE — For the first time, an Asian giant hornet nest has been found in the United States, the Washington State Department of Agriculture announced on Friday.
EAST WENATCHEE — A man died in an East Wenatchee house fire Friday morning on the 2500 block of Sunset Highway.
LAKE CHELAN — Rescuers airlifted a 28-year-old Ellensburg hunter who broke his ankle near the Devil’s Backbone northwest of Chelan on Thursday.
YAKIMA — When Scott McIlrath heard about the chilly weather forecast for this week, he pulled all the stops to get his Pink Lady and Fuji apples picked as quickly as possible.
WENATCHEE — Residents in Wenatchee could see up to an inch of snow today. The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for Central Washington, in effect until 11 p.m.
LONDON — More than a half million people in the United States could die from COVID-19 by the end of February next year, but around 130,000 of those lives could be saved if everybody were to wear masks, according to estimates from a modeling study.
PARIS — The coronavirus is spreading even faster than it did during the first phase of the pandemic, a French government adviser said on Friday as authorities across Europe scrambled to try to contain the disease once again racing through the continent.
CASHMERE — It’s not exactly natural for a group of 5-year-olds to wear masks and stay away from each other in school, but that is what is happened in Cashmere last week as preschool to second-grade students were welcomed back into the classroom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 50 million Americans have cast ballots in the presidential election, an early-voting expert said on Friday, signaling a potential record turnout out for a Nov. 3 matchup between President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden.
RENTON — A King County judge on Thursday found probable cause to hold a 49-year-old Renton man on investigation of felony harassment and malicious mischief for allegedly pointing a gun at an artist hired to paint a mural in Renton's Cascade neighborhood and defacing the mural, spelling out "…
SEATTLE — Even as fewer Washingtonians filed for unemployment last week, experts warned that preelection politics could hold up much needed federal funds for the hundreds of thousands of state residents already left jobless by COVID-19.
The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was more traditional and civil than their rancorous showdown last month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump interrupted far less but told no fewer falsehoods in his second and final debate with former Vice President Joe Biden. The president shaded or mangled the truth on topics ranging from the coronavirus to North Korea. He also leveled baseless allegatio…
SPOKANE — The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a growing trend of out-of-area buyers and remote workers moving to Spokane in search of a better quality of life and affordable housing, real estate experts said at the Association of Washington Business Housing Forum Virtual Series earlier …
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday turned away GOP-led efforts to shut down 10 drive-thru early voting sites in Harris County, quelling fears about the legality of 75,000 ballots already cast by voters in their vehicles.
EAST WENATCHEE — With an aerial photo of the city and Eastmont High School’s logo, the East Wenatchee Police Department’s newest patrol car stands out.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
KENNEWICK — Fentanyl continues to be the deadliest drug in the Tri-Cities.
Destiny Randolph, Wenatchee, right, tries to get smiles from her child in a cart, Ezra, in pink, and friend Moriah Marchand, while collecting pumpkins at Annie's Fun Farm at the intersection of Grant Road and Mary Avenue Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WENATCHEE — Local attorney Paula Arno Martinez has been appointed to the Wenatchee Valley College Board of Trustees. She attended her first board meeting last Wednesday.
CHELAN — A Chelan Valley couple donated $1 million to help cover construction costs for the Community Center at Lake Chelan. The project, led by local non-profit Seven Acres, officially broke ground on Tuesday.
WENATCHEE — A 54-year-old Peshastin man faces at least 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three children between 2007 and 2015.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
NCW — Drive-thru COVID-19 testing in Wenatchee Friday is canceled due to an inclement weather forecast.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an East Wenatchee man after he allegedly threatened to kill a passenger in his car while driving on Squilchuck Road.
EAST WENATCHEE — The company that owns the Kadie Glen Assisted Living facility at 451 N. Baker Ave. has received a $1.92 million state grant to help build a 54-bed standalone facility for specialized dementia care.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
YAKIMA — Washington immigrants suffering financially from COVID-19 can now apply for awards of up to $3,000 per household from a new state fund.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved President Donald Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime Supreme Court seat despite a Democratic boycott, clearing the way for a full Senate vote on her confirmation planned for Monday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said negotiators were making progress in talks with the Trump administration for another round of financial aid amid the COVID-19 pandemic and that legislation could be hammered out "pretty soon."
SELAH — Selah city employees have been ordered not to remove signs put up by a group calling for racial equality and the firing of City Administrator Don Wayman, attorneys for both sides said.
OLYMPIA — As pharmaceutical companies race to create, test and stockpile doses of vaccines to protect against the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington state is contemplating a similarly daunting challenge: distributing those doses as quickly and effectively as possible.
KENNEWICK — Kennewick middle and high school students won’t be going back to school until February.
SEATTLE — For many business owners struggling to survive the pandemic's upending of office work, news that downtown Seattle's biggest employer had extended its work-from-home policy by six months is yet another blow.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iran and Russia have obtained voter registration information and are sending disinformation to Americans ahead of Election Day, the leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI warned Wednesday night.
NCW — An association of real estate agents is providing housing assistance to people affected by the Cold Springs, Pearl Hill and Apple Acres fires.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
ROCK ISLAND — One man was hospitalized Wednesday evening after a propane leak caused an explosion in a travel trailer.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Animal Care and Control authorities are seeking information related to a Monday morning dog attack in the Wenatchee foothills.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Barack Obama hit the campaign trail for the first time in person Wednesday in Philadelphia to stump for his former vice president, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris.
WENATCHEE — Pinnacles Prep charter school is holding a “curbside facilities reveal” on Thursday at the site of its campus at the existing Wenatchee Community Center.
KENNEWICK — The number of new COVID-19 cases in Benton and Franklin counties nearly doubled in one day, with health officials reporting 60 on Wednesday.
OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau survived a confidence vote on Wednesday after a key opposition party backed his ruling Liberals, averting the chance of a snap election as a coronavirus outbreak worsens.
The entire project list, including details for each project, can be found at wenatcheemkdd.com.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The independent watchdog of the U.S. Postal Service has issued a report criticizing service reductions implemented in June and July under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, asserting that there was no consideration of the effects the cutbacks would have before they were put i…
WENATCHEE — Enrollment is down at Wenatchee Valley College 7.8% for the fall quarter, which is not unexpected as college enrollment is down across the state as the pandemic continues to impact.
NEW YORK — Purdue Pharma LP agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription opioid OxyContin, in a deal with U.S. prosecutors that effectively sidestepped paying billions of dollars in penalties and stopped short of criminally charging its executive…
