The Save Americans from the Fentanyl Emergency Act would permanently make all fentanyl-related drugs categorized as Schedule I drugs to help law enforcement keep them out of neighborhoods.
Call volumes are up...way up at Ballard Ambulance in Wenatchee.
Co-owner Shawn Ballard says the increase in demand for emergency service at the company skyrocketed in 2022.
"We had almost right at a thousand more calls than we did in 2021...
The Chelan County Regional Justice Center is grappling with several issues being created by the proliferation of fentanyl use in the Wenatchee Valley.
The facility is still operating until quarantine protocols from the COVID-19 pandemic, which require new intakes to remain in isolation for a brief period - usually no more than two or three days - prior to joining the rest of the jail's inmate popu
Local law enforcement officials have taken down the final players in a drug trafficking ring they say was responsible for distributing a large amount of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine throughout North Central Washington.
The organization was comprised of five men who all have lengthy criminal histories with the distribution of illicit narcotics...
A 36-year-old man is in jail after detectives say they found 8,000 fentanyl pills at his residence in East Wenatchee.
Detectives filed a notice of arrest document Monday in Douglas County Superior Court, saying they also found 19.7 grams of heroin in the garage of Shawn James Drummond in the 600 block of North Grover Place...
A photo from the company posted on social media shows a tin box of what would normally be cough drops replaced by little green pills identified as Fentanyl.