CASHMERE — There’s no other way to say it, these past two weeks have been agonizing for the Cashmere Bulldogs.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican this week rolled out its latest “Click to Pray” app, offering a personal planner among new functions for what it hopes will be an improved digital “praying experience” in a fast-paced world.
EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee’s municipal court is losing Judge Chancey Crowell in 2022.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
WENATCHEE — NCW Tech Alliance is seeking community members interested in applying for a volunteer position on its board of directors.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee is in the process of finalizing a $138 million unbalanced budget for 2022, according to a preliminary budget summary.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
WENATCHEE — Chelan County anticipates using some of the $16 million in its rainy day fund to help close a $5.8 million hole in the projected budget in 2022.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
CASHMERE — Lyle’s Boats & Motors is closing after a three-generation run and over 80 years of service.
TACOMA — Vaccines and the swarm of Delta cases that overwhelmed the state’s hospitals this summer have created some level of COVID-19 immune response among an estimated 61.5 percent to 65.7 percent of Washington state’s population.
WENATCHEE — Jennifer Witherbee, the executive director of the Washington Apple Education Foundation, will step down from her position in March 2022.
Wenatchee Valley College student Dayne Russ, right, gets a root ball ready at an Arbor Day event planting 20 trees on Friday at the college. Arbor Day is in April but because of other events at the college around the holiday college officials decided to hold their celebration in October, according to Joan Qazi the sustainability coordinator with the college.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
SEATTLE — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Gov. Jay Inslee are setting the wheels in motion to begin a regionwide assessment of dam breaching on the Lower Snake River.
This page will be regularly updated as new COVID-19 cases in North Central Washington are reported by health officials.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday ordered the state Department of Corrections to pause transfers of new inmates from local jails to state prisons to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A resentencing hearing Wednesday for a man convicted of a 1994 murder was continued until sometime next year.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Twenty-eight state Department of Transportation employees from the North Central region retired or were fired due to the state's vaccine mandate.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Rental assistance for low-income households is getting more accessible.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
OLYMPIA — Five troopers from the Washington State Patrol district that includes Chelan and Douglas counties left the agency Monday after they didn’t meet the state’s deadline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — October’s spooky time has arrived and there’s more than a few ghoulish souls ready to startle guests at Wenatchee’s Haunted Museum.
CASHMERE — Christ Center is wrapping up 15 years of dreaming, fundraising and construction and will celebrate its new home for the first time this Sunday.
WENATCHEE — Finding the right apple variety for the right recipe is now easier thanks to a revamped and rebranded Washington Apple Commission website, waapple.org.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
MALAGA — Up in the Malaga countryside, near the end of Gault Road, Steve Scott sits at the entrance of his 40-acre farm to welcome folks looking for pumpkins and a relaxing experience — for the 20th year in a row.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
SPOKANE — The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is looking to hire deputies, and its recruitment strategy includes telling potential applicants that they do not need a COVID-19 vaccine to work.
WENATCHEE — After a year and a half of scrambling for products, Dana Bates is looking for a break.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a 19-month low last week, pointing to a tightening labor market, though a shortage of workers could keep the pace of hiring moderate in October.
BELLINGHAM — As interest in the future of the curtailed Intalco Works aluminum smelter heats up, one potential path to be considered is whether the Port of Bellingham or Whatcom County government would purchase the property and lease it as a way to persuade a company to reopen the facility.
Former KOZI Radio owner Jerry Isenhart is sitting on a historical gold mine of recorded interviews featuring people from all walks of life in the Chelan-Manson area and elsewhere in North Central Washington.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
WENATCHEE — As of Tuesday, 92% of Wenatchee Valley College’s full-time employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 while 11 employees received a medical or religious exemption and accomodations.
White Pass plans to double the size of its High Camp lodge and build a new guest services building to better accommodate growing crowds at the ski area.
YAKIMA — Monica Lewinsky said she is the only person over 40 who doesn’t want to feel 20 again.
OLYMPIA — Washington saw only a modest rise in hiring in September as the pandemic continues to blunt the economic recovery and upend predictions about hiring, workers and the ongoing labor shortage.
WELLINGTON — New Zealand's first indigenous Māori woman to be named Governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, was formally sworn into the largely ceremonial role in parliament in Wellington on Thursday, pledging to reach out to migrants and marginalised citizens.
WENATCHEE — A third daily flight operating since mid-June from Pangborn Memorial Airport to SeaTac was canceled Oct. 3 and it is currently unclear if or when it will return.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, and said Americans can choose a different shot than their original inoculation as a booster.
LOS ANGELES — A potential shortage of airport screeners triggered by a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate could mean extra-long queues at airport security checkpoints during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday travel week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. authorities arrested 1.7 million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year, the most ever recorded, according to a U.S. government source familiar with the numbers, underscoring the stark political and humanitarian challenges the Biden administration faces o…
CASHMERE — Motorists will encounter road closures on Highway 2/97 near the West Cashmere Bridge project between 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — More than 100 Confluence Health and state employees and other Wenatchee Valley residents met on the intersection Ninth Street and Chelan Avenue around 1 p.m. to protest the state’s vaccine mandate for health care and state employees.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee plans to establish a rainy day fund of $1 million to help the city face emergencies.
Sydnee Gonzalez
World Staff Writer
WENATCHEE — Fire destroyed a camper-trailer in the 5600 block of Squilchuck Road on Tuesday.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
NEW YORK — PayPal Holdings Inc. has offered to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest Inc. for $45 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a combination that could herald more tie-ups between financial technology and social media companies in e-ecommerce.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.
SPOKANE — Unless they chicken out, the Spokane County Commissioners will soon approve a code change allowing residents in low-density residential areas to raise hens.
SPOKANE — Sun Country Airlines is launching new nonstop service between Minneapolis and Spokane.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined its plan to vaccinate millions of U.S. children ages 5 to 11 as soon as the COVID-19 shot is authorized for them, readying doses and preparing locations ahead of the busy holiday season.
LONDON — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, decided on Wednesday to rest for the next few days on advice from doctors and cancelled a planned visit to Northern Ireland, Buckingham Palace said.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Accused shooter Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the deadliest ever at a U.S. high school.
