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RiverCom received a report from a passing motorist of flames on a hillside in Pine Canyon Thursday night around 9:15. According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, deputies and personnel from Douglas County Fire District 1 responded to the area and determined the reported fire was actually an injured climber ...

A significant column of smoke could be seen in South Wenatchee Friday morning. An illegal debris pile burn turned into a brush fire in the 10 block of Boodry Street after the wind blew embers into some grass, sparking the quarter-acre blaze ...

The Chelan County Sheriff's Office is searching for a green 1999 Subaru after a disappointing sequence of events Wednesday afternoon. Sergeant Chris Foreman was responding to a report of an abandoned vehicle north of Chelan just before noon when the Subaru sped past him driving southbound on Apple Acres Road ...

Last week the East Wenatchee City Council interviewed three applicants for their open council position. Mayor Jerrilea Crawford told KPQ earlier this year that the hope is to have the new member in place by March 3rd. "I think the must successful candidate will be someone who is already engaged in the community and is looking for ways to give back...

Wenatchee City Council voted late last week to enter into a 10-year lease agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA) for use of what used to be city hall. Mayor Frank Kuntz said the GSA is acting on behalf of the Social Security Administration, who will be occupying the space at 129 S...

A Vashon Island man was the sole occupant of a one vehicle rollover collision in the Manson area Thursday around 7:40 pm. Chelan County Sheriff's Sergeant Andy Zimmerman said 76-year-old Allan Riddle was driving a 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan eastbound on State Route 150 when he experienced what's being called a "medical issue...

State Patrol responded to reports of a semi truck that had hit a building just after noon Thursday in the Grand Coulee Dam area. Trooper John Bryant said that the semi was traveling down State Route 174 when it left the roadway. While it was initially thought the semi had struck a pizza restaurant, the semi had actually struck a vehicle that was parked in front of the building, sending the parked

Officials involved with Grant County International Airport have approached Grant County Port officials about the possibility of permanently installing a cable system mainly used on aircraft carriers, called an arrestor system. Moses Lake Air Show Organizer Terry Quick said the system is a requirement at air shows for aircraft that are designed to land on short runways or aircraft carriers... Read

A Royal City man is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty in a 2017 fatality accident near Quincy. Grant County Sheriff's PIO Kyle Foreman said 34-year-old Genaro Vasquez Visoso ran a stop sign at a high rate of speed on Road K NW on October 20th, 2017...

A Wenatchee man was arrested Tuesday around 2:45 pm after officers responded to a call of an armed suspect in the backyard of a residence in the 600 block of Ridgeview Lane. According to Captain Brian Chance, 47-year-old Scott Glass pulled a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol on a resident of the home, only to be disarmed by the resident before police arrived...