EAST WENATCHEE — That smoke you were seeing near Fancher Heights Tuesday evening was coming from a training fire.
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
WENATCHEE — A school bus carrying 11 students and three adults collided with a pickup Tuesday afternoon near Rocky Reach Dam.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CASHMERE — A convicted felon accidentally shot himself in the genitals last month at an apartment in Cashmere. His problems didn’t stop there.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WATERVILLE — It’s doubtful the chickens and rabbits will notice, but they’ll soon have new digs during their stay at the next North Central Washington District Fair.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WENATCHEE — The Chelan County Commission has approved a new jail sergeant position.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
Woodin Avenue Bridge will be closed to traffic from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday for a railing pour.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — Developers of the proposed Leavenworth Adventure Park have cleared another hurdle on their path to building the controversial project on a hill above the west end of town.
WATERVILLE — Elaine A. Hurd, once charged with manslaughter in the death of her 2-year-old son, pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge that could lead to a six-month jail sentence.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Homeschooling families are invited to find out more about Eastmont’s new hybrid partnership program at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sterling Intermediate School library, 600 N. James Ave.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College campus fountain will turn into a fishing pond Wednesday for the annual Fountain Fishing Derby, sponsored by the WVC Student Senate.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Gov. Jay Inslee has declared a drought emergency in Chelan County.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
LEAVENWORTH — The community is invited to Tuesday’s dedication of the new and improved Cascade High School, a $25 million expansion and remodel project that got started in earnest about two years ago.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A round of testing for lead in drinking water is keeping plumbers busy in the Wenatchee School District.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — New double-door vestibules designed to make Wenatchee schools safer will take another year.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wildfire season is coming, and the state Department of Natural Resources is readying for a long summer.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Two shots were fired Friday night in a Wenatchee neighborhood and police are searching for suspects.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
NCW — Many candidates got lucky this week after no one signed up to run against them.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
NCW — By the end of the week, many candidates found themselves facing competition for the coming election.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Five-year-old Maverick looked at the collection of mounted insects with curiosity, pointing out wasps to his parents.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Though normally prohibited, ATVs will be on Saddle Rock next week.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Parents and staff at Washington Elementary School and the Early Childhood Learning Center used to parking on the street might have to come up with a new plan next year.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — The Douglas County PUD Commission on Monday instituted a moratorium on new power contracts with data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — The main Wenatchee Shopko store will close Sunday, but its optical department will continue to operate as a freestanding store.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Bids are expected to go out next week for the first phase of the Wenatchee Public Library’s year-long $2.5 million remodel.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
Update, 4:30 p.m. Friday: Highway 28 at milepost 5 in Rock Island has been reopened.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
When a group of East Wenatchee property owners signed a set of covenants in 1953 that would govern their country club neighborhood, the first item on the list was the exclusion of any non-white homeowner.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
PLAIN — In December 2012 a winter storm slammed the Upper Valley, leaving a trail of destruction.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — On June 7 last year, Anthony Wilson, an 18-year-old Eastmont High School student, died in a motorcycle crash on Colockum Road.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — The city is trying to cut back on its water use and reduce the amount lost to leaks.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Prosecutors filed new charges against a Leavenworth man accused of firing warning shots at a railroad crew last October.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EPHRATA — Grant County PUD employees will keep working on a plan to build new transmission lines into the Quincy area. Utility district commissioners gave the go-ahead after a three-hour explanation at the regular commission meeting earlier this month.
EAST WENATCHEE — Twenty new certified lead-free water fixtures installed this spring in four Eastmont schools are living up to their promises, according to the latest test results.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
NCW — The National Weather Service issued a flood watch today for Chelan and Douglas counties that forecasts up to an inch of rain and some thunderstorms.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Results are in for the city’s April 13 recycling event.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The city’s youth track and field recreation program runs from Monday through June 15.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A retired Chelan elementary school teacher pleaded not guilty to accusations that he molested a former student.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
MALAGA — Tanya Mahre plants her microgreen seeds with precision: She starts in the corners of the tray, then works down the edges, and then to the middle.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
EAST WENATCHEE — Julie Stimpson-Lewis, a 1976 Eastmont High School grad, HIV survivor and founder of the 30/30 Project, is the Eastmont Foundation’s Distinguished Alumnus for 2019.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — For Billye Tollackson, working as a nurse at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center has meant seeing medical things she didn’t even know were possible.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
I have great admiration for those with the inner sense peace to take life as it comes and accept the disasters and foibles with as much grace and dignity as successes. They are truly the happiest and most content people on earth.
WENATCHEE — Seven of the area’s top law enforcement officers were recognized Wednesday at an annual ceremony.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board fielded a recommendation Tuesday to put a technology levy on the November ballot that would raise about $4 million a year for six years.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Bed-day rates in Washington state jails are on the rise. It’s a trend that the Chelan County Regional Justice Center would like to follow.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
Large machinery chips up trees as the process of removing a Wenatchee School District orchard alongside Methow Street in Wenatchee south of Crawford Avenue comes to a close Wednesday. The district is removing the orchard because it's gotten older and is no longer profitable, district operati…
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
WENATCHEE — There wasn’t much noise in the dim Wenatchee classroom Tuesday evening, considering how many people were talking.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor