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Crews will start work on a stretch of Olds Station Road, east of Easy Street along the new PUD headquarters to the railroad tracks, starting Monday (04/03).

WSDOT announced the closures Saturday morning because of extreme winter weather conditions, avalanche danger and potential of falling trees due to ice.

The heavy snowfall in the Cascades this week might be making the landscape look like a winter wonderland, but it's creating a hellish nightmare for drivers on the state's mountain passes. Both U.S. Highway 2 over Stevens Pass and U.S. 97 over Blewett Pass have experienced closures due to slick and treacherous conditions since Tuesday, and earlier this morning, Interstate-90 (I-90) Snoqualmie Pass

The closure shuts off the airport's only daily commercial flight to Seattle on Horizon Air.

Signs will be posted for alternative detour routes nearby.

The roadway was closed between Skykomish and Grotto from noon until 2 p.m. while crews removed hazardous trees and other debris.

Construction is projected to be finished by early November.

There is currently no estimated time for when the highway will reopen.

Washington State trooper Jeremy Weber said drugs or alcohol may have played a factor into this collision.

The city of Wenatchee is nearing the start of Phase 1 for the Saddle Rock remediation project to remove the old mining waste rock piles that are traces of when the Department of Natural Resources owned the land and allowed small mining practices claims on the area...