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Chelan County orchardists have another few weeks of allowable green waste burning to look forward to after county commissioners voted Tuesday to extend pile burning until next month. Fire Marshal Stephen Rinaldi informed the board that this spring's heavy rains have created an issue for many orchards with trees infected with blight ...

The Wenatchee Pride Festival returns the Valley on Saturday. The annual event, which is staged by the group Wenatchee Pride, was scrapped the last two years due to the pandemic. Pride’s Volunteer & Events Coordinator, Ashley Peterson, says the timing of the event has an historical influence. “The ...

Investigators are still trying to figure what caused a Monday afternoon brush fire near Monitor that sent heavy smoke across Highway U.S. 2/97 and burned close to new home construction. The fire was reported at 12:38 p.m. on land in the 5000 block of Old Monitor Road, and crews were able put much of it out within a half hour or so ...

The man shot and killed June 4 by Wenatchee police is now identified as 32-year-old Zachary C. Rutherford of Jackson, California. Police say Rutherford was the suspect in a burglary the afternoon of June 4 in the 400 block of Castle View Place, who was tracked down shortly afterward in the 200 block of South Western Street ...

The Chelan PUD is advising people to be extremely cautious anywhere near the Chelan River between the dam and where it feeds into the Columbia River. The utility is beginning spring spill into the river in order to manage Lake Chelan water levels, which are quickly filling up from recent rain fall and snow melt from warming temperatures ...

The man accused of killing 30-year-old Moses Lake mother, Yanira Cedillos, is pleading not guilty to second degree murder and rape charges. KVEW-TV reports 28-year-old Juan Gastelum appeared virtually before a Grant County Judge on Monday morning to submit his not guilty plea to the two charges ...

Okanogan County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for public help to find a man who recently went missing in Twisp. KPQ news partner i FIBER ONE reports 30-year-old William “Buck” Glenn Parris Jr. fled on foot after being pulled over by a Fish and Wildlife officer for reported erratic driving. Deputies say ...

The process of identifying how to redevelop the Chelan County PUD’s Fifth Street campus in Wenatchee is moving ahead. The PUD’s Shared Services Director, Dan Frazier, says much has already been done – including prior to the utility breaking ground on its new headquarters in Olds Station. “We started o ...

A Chelan High School junior is the winner of the 27th Annual Washington Apple Education Foundation Year of the Apple Art Contest. Macie Cowan's oil painting titled "Ascending Apples” was the winner among 33 art pieces submitted by 9-12 grade entrants from Benton, Chelan, Franklin, Grant, and Yakima counties. F ...

Fire destroyed a small structure and damaged two others Monday morning in Wenatchee. Crews with Chelan County Fire District No. 1 and Douglas County Fire District No. 2 were dispatched to the blaze in the 800 block of South Chelan Avenue around 7 a ...