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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
WENATCHEE — Prosecutors filed new charges against a Leavenworth man accused of firing warning shots at a railroad crew last October.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — A retired Chelan elementary school teacher pleaded not guilty to accusations that he molested a former student.
Pete O'Cain
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
WENATCHEE — Seven of the area’s top law enforcement officers were recognized Wednesday at an annual ceremony.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WATERVILLE — An East Wenatchee man who admitted to sexually abusing a young girl has been sentenced to a year in jail.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Police believe a 36-year-old man stole another man’s computer tablet and a bag of possessions and then tried to hit him with a stick.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
MONITOR — An East Wenatchee man who allegedly drove a BMW 40 mph through an orchard pleaded not guilty to several charges this week.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
Laura Fox, driver trainer for the Wenachee School District Transportation Department, teaches new driver Maribel Davidson techniques of backing up a bus Friday, May 10, 2019, at Triangle Park. Davidson was preparing for a driving test with Fox's help.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
EPHRATA — Authorities arrested a Grant County man Wednesday after he assaulted a courthouse security guard and evaded capture the previous day.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
Updated, 12:05 p.m. Thursday: EAST WENATCHEE — The man arrested Wednesday after allegedly driving inside Wenatchee Valley Mall told police he was high on meth and heroin.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — The pilot killed Monday in a plane wreck is remembered by loved ones as full of life and a passion for understanding how things worked.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
CHELAN — A sunken boat is leaking fuel into Lake Chelan, and state agencies are working to contain the spill.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
An early morning fire killed two dogs and destroyed a house and six vehicles Saturday off of South Lakeshore Road.
Bridget Mire
Reporter
QUINCY — A 25-year-old man was sentenced to two months in Grant County Jail following an incident where he waved a knife at Quincy police officers during a traffic stop.
WENATCHEE — A rookie cop with a knack for flying up the ranks, Johnathan “Ming Ming” Carter took his first patrol Thursday as the newly minted chief of the Wenatchee Police Department.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
MONITOR — A 25-year-old man drove a car through a pear orchard at 40 mph about noon Tuesday and ruined at least one tree valued at $10,000, Chelan County sheriff’s deputies say.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
MANSON - Wapato Lake caught fire Friday night when the cattails in the lake ignited.
A church that reportedly is telling people to drink a chemical found in bleach held an event Saturday in Leavenworth.
WENATCHEE — A Wenatchee man briefly escaped arrest after being held at gunpoint Thursday afternoon.
PESHASTIN — A 35-year-old Peshastin man is suspected of slashing tires on two Chelan County Sheriff’s Office patrol cars.
NCW — The public is warned not to consume a tuna product under recall due to salmonella poisoning.
WENATCHEE — Chelan County Sheriff Brian Burnett says investigators are trying to resolve a more than $10,000 discrepancy in money seized during an April 3 drug bust.
WENATCHEE — A 20-year-old Wenatchee man was sentenced to seven months in jail on Wednesday for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 2017.
WENATCHEE — A man who at age 12 was involved in the murder of a 13-year-old Ephrata boy has asked Wenatchee to take an anti-abortion stance and shut down the local Planned Parenthood clinic.
WENATCHEE — A Quincy man accused of child rape pleaded not guilty to five charges Wednesday.
WENATCHEE — A 20-year-old East Wenatchee man received a two-year sentence after pleading guilty Wednesday to theft charges.
WENATCHEE — Two men suspected of distributing cocaine in the Wenatchee Valley entered pleas of not guilty Wednesday.
WENATCHEE — A fire district commissioner who’s twice resigned from public office resigned last week.
NCW — Law enforcement agencies statewide will conduct extra patrols Saturday to curtail impaired driving.
WENATCHEE — An East Wenatchee man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for his alleged involvement in separate cases involving a vehicle prowl and a hit and run.
CHELAN — A 36-year-old man drowned Saturday in Lake Chelan after the inflatable kayak he and Puyallup man were using capsized.
LEAVENWORTH — A Seattle woman was airlifted out of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness after she was injured while skiing Sunday afternoon.
WATERVILLE — Tensions between the East Wenatchee police administration and the officers’ union have grown deeper.
WENATCHEE — An East Wenatchee man pleaded not guilty on Monday to accusations that he ran a local soccer betting ring that took in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
EAST WENATCHEE — The dog knew first.
Update, 3:05 p.m.: LEAVENWORTH — Highway 97 was reopened in both directions about 3 p.m. Thursday.
WENATCHEE — Trial set to begin next week for a Peshastin man accused of sexually abusing four children was canceled after he made a successful motion to dismiss his attorney.
Update, 4:40 p.m. Tuesday: CHELAN — Highway 97/A was reopened in both directions about 4:45 p.m.
WENATCHEE — A 29-year-old woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly threatened to kill a toddler.
WENATCHEE — A suspected furnace fire damaged a home in Wenatchee on Saturday.
Updated, 5:45 p.m. Saturday: EAST WENATCHEE — An 89-year-old man hospitalized Friday after a house fire has died of his injuries.
Update, 1 p.m. Friday: PESHASTIN — Power has been restored to the area, according to the Chelan County PUD.
A mobile home in the Sun Cove community north of Orondo was destroyed by fire on Friday.
ORONDO — Fire destroyed a mobile home and a vehicle in the Sun Cove neighborhood north of Orondo on Friday.
NCW — Wildfire experts are forecasting normal potential for large fires during the upcoming fire season.
OLYMPIA — The state Supreme Court has declined to review a case brought by an East Wenatchee police officer trying to suppress a pre-employment polygraph.