WENATCHEE — A woman who died in a mobile home fire this week in Wenatchee has been identified as Shanna J. Rice.
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WENATCHEE — A woman who died in a mobile home fire this week in Wenatchee has been identified as Shanna J. Rice.
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WENATCHEE — The city of Wenatchee has entered into a pipeline crossing agreement with the Wenatchee Reclamation District to add two water mains.
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WENATCHEE — The East Wenatchee Police Department and Chelan County Sheriff's Office are searching for two suspects who allegedly fled after a traffic stop and were last seen headed westbound over the Odabashian Bridge.
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WENATCHEE — "When we're kids, we don't think too hard about creating," said Liza Valentina, a local artist instructing a class Saturday at the Wenatchee Valley College's Music & Art Center. "That's where we do our best work."
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WENATCHEE — Do you know a Wenatchee Valley College alum that deserves to be recognized? The WVC Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2023 distinguished alumni of the year.
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WENATCHEE — The Chelan and Douglas counties office for the National Alliance on Mental Illness is looking to expand their service area to Okanogan and Grant counties and changing its name to NAMI North Central Washington.
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SEATTLE — The multibillion-dollar company that runs the immigrant detention center in Tacoma confirmed deploying "chemical agents" Wednesday as conflict over allegedly inadequate food and unsanitary conditions escalate.
For years, Washington has exported some of the electricity it produced. The state sent more than 18 percent of its generated power out of state in 2021, but in the coming decades that will change — and maybe not for the reason you expect.
One morning last month, after more than 31 inches of snow fell in the previous two days, Utah transportation workers opened a huge garage-like door in a building near a state highway and fired a military howitzer up a mountain in the Salt Lake Valley.
SEATTLE — To become certified, prospective home care workers in Washington must be tested on what they've learned in their 75 required hours of training. But many face challenges even before they get to the test — a would-be caregiver might have to drive several hours to a site at a schedule…
SEATTLE — A decade after Washington legalized recreational cannabis, people of color remain locked out of the multibillion-dollar industry, with some calling the state's new efforts for inclusion a late start to an already finished race.
Businesses setup Friday for this weekend's Building North Central Washington Home Show at Town Toyota Center Friday, Feb. 3, 2022 in Wenatchee. The show will feature leaders in cabinetry, glass, concrete, paint, outdoor living, home decoration and more. The home show starts at 9 a.m. Saturday and goes to 5 p.m. and continues from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $5.
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OLYMPIA — A bill to add additional instruction days to the school calendar generally received positive remarks during a hearing by the Senate’s education committee Thursday afternoon. Its future in the current session, though, remains uncertain.
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WENATCHEE — During the pandemic, Luke Byrd saw bad behavior from a surge of visitors to Washington’s National Parks. First-time visitors veered from designated paths, fed wildlife and took souvenirs.
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Wenatchee Valley firefighters extinguish a fire inside a truck at the entrance to the Columbia Valley Community Health Center at 600 Orondo Ave. Friday afternoon. No one was injured.
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WENATCHEE — The River Academy, a private Christian school that teaches pre-kindergarten through 12th grade classes, is designing a new school.
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OLYMPIA — People who perform female genital mutilation on a minor could face criminal and civil penalties if a bill now in the state Senate becomes law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new rocket that would double Ukraine's strike range in its war with Russia was included in a $2.175 billion U.S. military aid package, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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WENATCHEE — The Cascade Veterinary Clinic Apprenticeship Program, a product of Wenatchee SkillSource’s and Cascade Veterinary Clinic’s partnership, is the first of its kind in the region, and welcomed its first apprentice in January, the partners said.
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SEATTLE — Between 2017 and 2021, nearly one-third of all deadly traffic crashes in Washington involved a driver who had been drinking. More than a third involved a driver who tested positive for drug use.
WENATCHEE — In 2019, the Boy Scouts of America changed its name to Scouts BSA and started allowing girls to join, which provided opportunities they would not have in Girl Scouts.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission is preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday it will make more Tesla, Ford Motor, General Motors and Volkswagen electric vehicles eligible for up to $7,500 tax credits after it revised its vehicle classification definitions.
WORCESTER, Mass. — A powerful arctic blast swept into the Northeast on Friday, threatening to push temperatures to record lows in many spots, including New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, where the wind chill could drop to -110 degrees Fahrenheit, forecasters said.
BEIJING — China said on Friday an "airship" that is flying over the United States is for civilian meteorological and other scientific purposes and voiced regret that it strayed into U.S. airspace.
KYIV — Ukraine unveiled a criminal case on Friday against the boss of Russia's Wagner mercenary company, and promised to track down and prosecute the company's fighters who try to flee abroad.
BRUSSELS — NATO allies on Friday threw their weight behind U.S. complaints that Russia is violating the New START nuclear arms control treaty and called on Moscow to come back into compliance.
KYIV — The European Union offered strong support for Ukraine at a summit held in Kyiv as air raid sirens wailed on Friday, but set “no rigid timelines” for its accession to the wealthy bloc.
PHILADELPHIA — People struggling with opioid addiction will now be able to access an addiction treatment drug from any physician licensed to prescribe controlled substances, rather than having to seek out doctors with specialized credentials.
SYDNEY — The task was daunting: find a tiny radioactive capsule that had fallen off a truck somewhere in Western Australia’s vast outback sometime in January.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three former U.S. snowboarders sued their former coach, the national snowboarding federation and the U.S. Olympic Committee on Thursday alleging sexual abuse that was covered up by the two sporting bodies, court documents showed.
EAST WENATCHEE — The East Wenatchee Police Department will soon get to move into its new headquarters at 50 Simon St., as renovations are almost completed.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Classmates often stop Alma Gallegos as she makes her way down the bustling hallways of Theodore Roosevelt High School in southeast Fresno, California. The 17-year-old senior is frequently asked by fellow students about COVID-19 testing, vaccine safety, and the value of booste…
SEATTLE — In a year that ended with drastic cost-cutting measures — from ending experimental projects to cutting 18,000 jobs — Amazon reported a net loss of $2.7 billion.
WASHINGTON, D.C./BEIJING — Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a visit to China that was expected to start on Friday after a Chinese spy balloon was tracked flying across the United States in what U.S. officials called a “clear violation” of U.S. sovereignty.
Time spent with Grandpa Bruce Huge for Lyra Huge, 2, and her brother Harrison, 4, meant a walk to the local Cashmere bakery Wednesday. The senior Huge said he likes to take them to the store every once-in-a-while for a treat for them - and him.
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SAN JOSE, California — PayPal has revealed plans for a fresh round of job cuts in San Jose, a staffing reduction that serves as a disquieting sign that the Bay Area’s tech layoffs have yet to run their course.
WENATCHEE — Prosecutors on Wednesday filed lesser charges against Julius James Ceballos to which he pleaded guilty in the 2019 death of an 18-year-old Waterville woman and will seek an 8.5-year prison sentence.
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SEATTLE — Starting this year, the Washington State Department of Licensing will offer a one-time original or renewed state ID card at no cost for those who are homeless and expected to continue living in Washington.
TACOMA — The acting chairman of the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission said Wednesday that the planning group could make an airport site recommendation to the state sooner than expected but problems with the three locations under review made none likely to move forward.
This page will be regularly updated as new COVID-19 cases in North Central Washington are reported by health officials.
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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho authorities have alleged that Bryan Kohberger’s cellphone records showed he was in the Moscow area less than an hour after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in an off-campus house — and that he visited the “coverage area” of the home 12 times before…
PHILADELPHIA — Temperatures are forecast to plunge across the Philadelphia region over the next few days, and Punxsutawney Phil expects more of the same for the next six weeks.
SEATTLE — Nearly 400,000 households are eligible for Washington’s new Working Families Tax Credit, which will give as much as $1,200 a year to low-income working families.
SEATTLE — Up to $1,200 is now available for hundreds of thousands of low-income working Washington families, thanks to a 2008 law that — 15 years later — is finally funded for the first time.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week as the labor market remained resilient despite higher borrowing costs and mounting fears of a recession.
WASHINGTON, D.C./KYIV — The U.S. has answered President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s plea for rockets that can strike deep behind the front lines of the nearly year-long conflict with Russia.
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