WENATCHEE — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to the discharge of a firearm in Wenatchee.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A Wenatchee attorney implicated in a hit and run faces an additional charge related to the April incident.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
NCW — Record-keeping practices surrounding graduation rates and school lunches resulted in findings on the state audits of three area school districts.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Horns, a safe, maps of the world, a typewriter and science beakers.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — Police are looking for the driver of an SUV that struck the outside of a Wenatchee convenience store and damaged merchandise inside.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
While not all the details are out, cherry growers are expected to benefit from $16 billion in federal aid for agricultural producers who continue to be affected by tariffs and trade disputes, including one the U.S. has with China.
Many Northwest music fans have had their Gorge moment — that instant when the landmark concert venue’s expansive views overlooking the Columbia River canyon sink in for the first time, spurring the realization that the rural Washington destination isn’t the average amphitheater.
OLYMPIA — The “faithless electors” who defied both a pledge they had made and the will of Washington voters by casting their Electoral College votes for candidates other than Hillary Clinton in 2016 can be fined $1,000, as state law stipulates, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
SEATTLE — The state Attorney General’s Office announced Friday a lifetime ban against a Leavenworth family involved in a charity scam.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
If every one of the nearly 33,000 people who call Walla Walla home moved to the Tri-Cities, it still wouldn't equal the population boom here in just eight years.
SPOKANE — Northern pike continued their steady advance down the Columbia River this spring.
SPOKANE — A nonprofit law firm has identified more than 200 people who died in Washington jails over the course of nearly 12 years, finding lapses in supervision, medical and mental health care, suicide prevention and protocols for treating drug withdrawal and overdoses.
— Yakima Herald-Republic
CASHMERE — Keith Collins and David Nichols are the 2019 inductees to Cashmere High School’s Wall of Fame.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Five North Central Washington schools are among the 216 statewide to be recognized by the state Board of Education for academic growth and achievement, including Wenatchee’s Washington Elementary School and Cashmere’s Vale Elementary School.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
FORT WORTH, Texas — The head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday insisted there’s no fixed schedule for lifting the order that has grounded Boeing’s 737 MAX since March 13.
SEATTLE — Jeff Bezos, asked directly by employees at Amazon’s shareholder meeting Wednesday morning to take meaningful action on climate change, would not commit to put the commerce giant on the rapid emissions-reduction path scientists say is necessary to address the global crisis.
All available workers with access to Hanford’s $17 billion vitrification plant were tested for drugs and alcohol last week as part of a contractor-led focus on the issue.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was freed early from federal prison on Thursday after serving 17 years, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.
OLYMPIA — On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed SB 5001, “concerning human remains,” making Washington the first state in the U.S. to legalize human composting.
WENATCHEE — Repeal of the 20 percent tariff on apples shipped to Mexico is welcome news to Washington growers who have been on a roller coaster this past year with multiple trade conflicts in top export markets.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Funds to fight homelessness in Chelan and Douglas counties will be set aside for larger building projects.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
I’m sure some of you have heard of the 10,000 Hour Rule — closely associated with pop psych writer Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “Outliers.”
NCW — If you missed out on candidate filing last week, you still have a chance to run for office this year.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
SPOKANE — Deputy Jennifer Tyler is suing the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office again, citing continued retaliation, discrimination, harassment and negligence in the workplace.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Grant Elementary to honor retirees
Cala Flamond
Editorial assistant
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump abruptly blew up an infrastructure meeting with Democratic leaders at the White House on Wednesday and declared that bipartisan cooperation was impossible while House committees are investigating him, underscoring the increasing combustibility betwee…
Updated, 4:55 p.m. Wednesday: CHELAN — A brush fire Wednesday burned about 3 acres of a hillside outside Chelan.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Add Ohme Gardens passes to the list of items available for check out from the Wenatchee Public Library.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
NCW — A couple of candidates have taken themselves out of races in the upcoming election.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
OLYMPIA — In just under a year, Washington residents will have choices other than burial and cremation after they die, including becoming human compost.
Budget includes $175M more to help salmon
WENATCHEE — Dozens of students stood around a fountain Wednesday at Wenatchee Valley Community College with fishing rods in their hands and grins on their faces.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee praised a record $52.4 billion operating budget for its boosts to spending on schools, mental health, affordable housing and environmental programs — and ignored calls to veto some of the tax increases needed to pay for it — as he signed the last bills from what he …
WENATCHEE — Median sales price and rate of construction were both at five-year highs in April, according to Pacific Appraisal Associates.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
PULLMAN — Researchers at Washington State University are teaming up with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in an effort to chart the tribe’s outcomes prescribing medicinal marijuana to patients.
EPHRATA — Boat owners can get their vessel decontaminated from aquatic invasive species for free at a new facility scheduled to open June 1 in Ephrata.
SPOKANE — Funeral home director Trent Nielsen is trying to guide grieving families through the waiting game.
WENATCHEE — It was a first for Washington Elementary School.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is at least a month from enacting its proposed tariffs on $300 billion in Chinese imports as it studies the impact on consumers, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.
EAST WENATCHEE — That smoke you saw near Fancher Heights Tuesday evening came from a training fire.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE —The Washington Public Port Association awarded its 2019 Creative Partnership Award to the Port of Chelan County for its work on Pybus Public Market.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
CASHMERE — Crunch Pak is now offering sliced pears in addition to apples.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — It was bird excrement that had a crew from the state Department of Transportation cleaning the George Sellar Bridge this week.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer