EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee police arrested a 46-year-old man Sunday after he allegedly attempted to drive a stolen trackhoe over the Pipeline Pedestrian Bridge.
Oscar Rodriguez
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An overdose crisis is affecting children, adolescents and adults across the United States. Most drug overdoses in young people are caused by opioids, and specifically, fentanyl.
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WENATCHEE — No one was found after authorities responded to a report of a person possibly jumping off the George Sellar Bridge Thursday afternoon.
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WENATCHEE — Almost three months since seizing more than 60 animals as a part of an animal cruelty investigation, the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society has placed 53 of those animals into new homes.
The former owner, Maria Del Socorro Medrano, is currently charged with up to 61 counts of second-degree animal cruelty, a gross misdemeanor, across two cases in Chelan County District Court.
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WASHINGTON — Tribes and counties could keep revenue from timber projects on federal lands under a bill that’s gaining momentum in the House of Representatives, after several Washington Democrats backed legislation first introduced by two Idaho Republicans.
WENATCHEE — Two months since the arrest and the ongoing investigation of his 18-hour standoff with authorities on Chumstick Highway, Abel Wilkes wants to share his story.
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World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Local rescuers Tuesday could not find anyone in need of help or assistance up in the Saddle Rock area after a concerned hiker reported a person possibly in need of help.
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WENATCHEE — The two suspects who police say operated massage parlors in Wenatchee as fronts for prostitution are suing the Columbia River Drug Task Force and challenging its seizure of over $125,000 from their bank accounts.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
Fire Chief Andy Lee with Chelan County District 6 waits for water as a storage shed burns behind him at the west end of the Cashmere Airport Wednesday. Chief Lee said the fire started in the burn pile in the foreground and spread to the empty shed. Firefighters attempted to save building materials in a pile nearby.
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Photo Editor
NCW — A flash flood warning is in effect Tuesday evening for North Central Washington.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
BLEWETT PASS — Wisps of smoke stretch upwards from the forest floor about a mile or so off the north side of Blewett Pass after a recent prescribed burn by the U.S. Forest Service.
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LOS ANGELES — Almost 40% of forest area burned by wildfire in the western United States and southwestern Canada in the last 40 years can be attributed to carbon emissions associated with the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers, according to new research that see…
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WENATCHEE — Do you know what to do if a day hike goes wrong?
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World News Editor
Marijuana and other products containing THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient, have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available.
BRIDGEPORT — A Bridgeport man sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted of damaging a store during a 2019 burglary is expected to be released from custody soon following a successful appeal.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
KENNEWICK — It's a springtime scenario many Washingtonians are familiar with: A family of wild animals has made a home somewhere next to, near or under the house or porch and there are young ones. The question after such a discovery usually goes something like, "What now?"
WATERVILLE — Douglas County Prosecutors on Tuesday dismissed charges against one of the three suspects involved in the fatal shooting of Elias A. Mora Ontiveros.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
LEAVENWORTH — Four people required rescue this weekend after separate climbing and hiking trips didn’t go according to plan. Two hikers on Sunday were flown out of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness and two climbers on Saturday were assisted down a cliff outside Leavenworth.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
EAST WENATCHEE — Five students made it to Cascade Elementary School in style Monday morning, stepping off a bright red fire truck.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — You’re nearing the end of a day hike in The Enchantments, carrying just a water and a few snacks, when you trip on a root and break your ankle.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
ROCK ISLAND — Fire protection ratings for the Rock Island area have been improved after a new fire station opened Monday, which could mean lower insurance rates for its residents.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
LAKE CHELAN — South Lakeshore Road is open to local traffic after crews removed a log jam at Twentyfive Mile Creek that caused water to back into a channel.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — A Chelan County judge during a special hearing set bail at $2 million for each the two inmates who police say attempted to kill a corrections deputy Monday morning.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Two Chelan County inmates charged in separate homicides are accused of attempting to kill a corrections deputy on Monday.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
ORONDO — A Chelan man was arrested on suspicion of vehicular assault and driving under the influence when he failed to yield to traffic Saturday when making a left turn on Highway 97.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
CASHMERE — A Cashmere man was traveling Sunday evening southbound on North Division Street, near Cashmere through a red light, when his vehicle was struck by another vehicle and he was ejected from his vehicle, police said.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
SEATTLE — Washington state lawmakers wrestled with and ultimately passed a bill recently that is intended to ease a persistent crisis — the state is failing to provide required mental health services for people detained in jail and awaiting trial.
After spending 38 years in the Alabama prison system, one of the most violent and crowded in the nation, Larry Jordan felt lucky to live long enough to regain his freedom.
WENATCHEE — A 15-year-old Wenatchee girl has returned home after she was reported missing April 19, police confirmed.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — A suspect charged in an East Wenatchee homicide is now suspected of bringing fentanyl into the county jail.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five years ago, Kris Pedretti was on a business trip in Los Angeles. She got a call from former Sacramento Undersheriff Carol Daly with a message: The man who had raped her as a 15-year-old inside her parents’ Carmichael home in 1976 had been arrested.
When firefighters show up to a blaze or medical emergency across much of the United States, they most likely are volunteers. It’s also likely the department is understaffed, struggling to replace old equipment and facing uncertainty about its next generation of firefighters.
MINNEAPOLIS — Former police officer Kim Potter was released from prison early Monday and will reside in Wisconsin, two years after fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in a Brooklyn Center neighborhood.
EAST WENATCHEE — A Rock Island man died from a gunshot after an “apparent verbal argument” that originated outside East Wenatchee Monday morning.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
EAST WENATCHEE — No one was hurt in a Sunday afternoon portable fire at Kenroy Elementary School in East Wenatchee.
Mitchell Roland
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Four Wenatchee police officers who shot and killed a man last year on Western Avenue will not face criminal charges.
Pete O'Cain
World News Editor
SEATTLE — When the owner of a Rainier Valley mom-and-pop teriyaki restaurant was shot and killed in the middle of dinnertime service in January, his family wanted to sell the restaurant and have nothing to do with it anymore.
