OKANOGAN — A Bellingham man who escaped the Okanogan County Jail in January has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — A wildfire that started in a burn pile torched 9 acres Thursday west of Chelan off of 1200 block of Little Butte Ranch Road, bringing in firefighters from across the Wenatchee Valley.
Nina Fournier had no idea a terrible tragedy awaited her when she went to grab coffee on a recent Sunday morning. The Puyallup mother of two couldn’t have anticipated that another driver would smash her SUV at nearly 100 miles per hour — a driver so stoned on heroin, according to police repo…
ENTIAT — Repair crews will be doing a routine inspection of the Knapps Hill Tunnel on April 14, closing the tunnel to traffic from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
STEVENS PASS — The state Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has reduced driving speeds to 50 mph along the 9-mile stretch of Highway 2 across Stevens Pass due to rough road conditions.
LEAVENWORTH — The popular Oktoberfest in Leavenworth will not happen in 2021 but if city officials have their way it will return in 2022, perhaps with a new organization leading the way.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — The clock is ticking for those looking to book a stay at a state park this year: reservations are up and officials expect busy summer akin to 2020.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Police arrested a Wenatchee man who they say fled the scene of a crash before barricading himself in his home late Tuesday night.
WATERVILLE — A 33-year-old man implicated in a 2019 Banks Lake robbery was sentenced to more than five years in prison.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
SPOKANE — A retrial was ordered Tuesday when a 2018 child molestation conviction was overturned due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Assessing Audelia Garcia’s home on Boodry Street for wildfire resiliency, experts found some good and bad.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Assessing Audelia Garcia’s home on Boodry Street for wildfire resiliency, experts found some good and bad.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Construction crews start work this week on the Coyote Dunes Improvement Project along the Apple Capital Recreation Loop Trail in East Wenatchee.
WENATCHEE — The Chelan County PUD is asking that boaters allow extra space near the Rocky Reach Dam while crews do maintenance work on the floating boat barrier.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — Police arrested a Wenatchee man on suspicion of reckless endangerment after his car crashed shortly after 10 p.m. Monday on the 900 block of Cherry Street.
PLAIN — Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue may buy property near Highway 2 to improve fire and emergency services.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
President Joe Biden claims the 10-year assault weapons ban that he helped shepherd through the Senate as part of the 1994 crime bill “brought down these mass killings.” But the raw numbers, when adjusted for population and other factors, aren’t so clear on that.
Updated 1:30 p.m. Friday: ORONDO — A 30-year-old man died Thursday on Highway 97 north of Orondo after his ATV struck a pickup hauling a livestock trailer.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE —Chelan County deputies arrested a Kennewick man early this morning after he allegedly broke into a car outside the Circle K on North Wenatchee Avenue and led police on a high-speed chase that ended near the Stevens Pass summit.
CASHMERE — Work is expected to begin this week on Hay Canyon Road as part of the West Cashmere Bridge project. Expect extra construction traffic through the year.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — Rock scaling on the hillside south of Entiat is delaying traffic and prompting changes to Link Transit bus service.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
CHELAN — The Chelan County PUD is warning Chelan River visitors of rising water levels due to spring spill.
WENATCHEE — Snowmen held their last stand Sunday night, bringing in an icy downfall of evening snow to dust the Wenatchee Valley.
WENATCHEE — Thousands of acres of National Forest land in Central Washington will be targeted for prescribed burning this spring as officials prepare for the summer fire season.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
EAST WENATCHEE — A Monroe man was charged with vehicular assault and driving under the influence after a Saturday morning crash that left another driver hospitalized, the Washington State Patrol said.
Reilly Kneedler
World staff writer
WENATCHEE — A jury has acquitted a man charged with being the driver in a July drive-by shooting that wounded one.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WATERVILLE — On the wall beside the metal detector are plaques listing the past 30 recipients of the NCW Fair Commissioner Awards. Sixty-plus chairs are spaced apart in the roughly 10,000-square-foot room. A wagon wheel hangs from above.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Strong and potentially damaging winds could hit Wenatchee starting Sunday, according to the National Weather Service office in Spokane.
LEAVENWORTH — The Chelan County Prosecuting Attorney determined that a deputy did not use excessive force when he used his patrol car to push a fleeing car off a roadway during a high-speed chase early Christmas morning.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Central Washington Hospital reported a 64% increase in non-fatal suicide attempt emergency room visits for patients age 18 and under in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to data received from Confluence Health.
Madeline Happold
Journalist product manager
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Some widely available hand sanitizers that American consumers snapped up last year to ward off coronavirus infection contain high levels of a chemical known to cause cancer, a testing firm’s analysis found.
WENATCHEE — A key vote is expected this week on a proposed sales tax that would fund a low-barrier shelter and expand services to the homeless in the Wenatchee Valley
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CASHMERE — Drivers on Sunset Highway in Cashmere should expect delays Thursday as crews remove two trees.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — The driver of a fatal crash into a Wenatchee barber shop on Chelan Avenue last month is believed to have lost consciousness while driving.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
PLAIN — Insurance costs related to fire protection ratings will remain about the same for the Plain and Lake Wenatchee communities.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WATERVILLE — Seventeen months ago. That was the last time Edith Rodríguez Chávez saw the inside of her daughter’s bedroom.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Police Department is asking Wenatchee area residents to be on the lookout for a missing endangered adult.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — A 42-year-old man died Sunday morning in a paragliding accident five miles northeast of Leavenworth.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — The state will improve curb ramps at Highway 2 and Ninth Street in Leavenworth.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
WENATCHEE — A 67-year-old Wenatchee woman is accused of stealing more than $160,000 from an 89-year-old woman.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — A tractor and Jeep were destroyed Wednesday in a Chelan shed fire.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee police officers wrestled a man to the ground and arrested him after he allegedly assaulted two people and pushed an officer, Sunday afternoon on the 200 block of 1st Street in East Wenatchee.
WENATCHEE — Chelan County Superior Court Judge Lesley Allan announced Tuesday her impending retirement.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A Wenatchee man was arrested Monday evening in connection to a stolen Jerry’s Auto Supply vehicle.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A former Wenatchee television broadcaster pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting two young children in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WINTHROP — Authorities say a Winthrop man used a knife to threaten two men documenting a roadkill harvest.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
OKANOGAN — A Cashmere woman accused of aiding in an inmate’s escape from the Okanogan County Jail was released from custody Thursday after a judge sentenced her to time served.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Chelan County PUD is studying how power cuts have been used in California and Oregon to reduce the risk of wildfire as it develops its own proposed plan.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A Washington State Supreme Court decision striking down a drug possession law is having a big and immediate impact on police investigations and court cases.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
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