Kittitas County Sheriff's Office

Two separate accidents involving off-road recreational vehicles required two injured people to be airlifted for medical assistance from Kittitas County over the weekend. One of the incidents occurred on Sunday afternoon in an area known as the 'Old Coal Mines Slag Pile' between Cle Elum and Roslyn, when a 61-year-old Cle Elum woman suffered a head injury...

The woman used a dingy to scoot across 50 feet of ice to reach an animal she thought was injured, but when reaching open water in middle of the pond, could not get back onto the ice to scoot back to shore.

Detectives will continue investigating the case and asks the community to contact their office if they have any more information about the fires.

The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office and Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue are currently investigating the fire.

The body of 24-year-old Nicolas Gomiero of Seattle was spotted by helicopter Wednesday morning, and was then hoisted out of the area because of rugged terrain.

The fire is estimated at 5,000 acres and growing, with about 40 homes, windmill towers and other buildings threatened.

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says they have been joined by more than 20 different local, state and federal agencies in the search for Jorge Alcantara-Gonzalez in the Mineral Springs area near Blewett Pass. It is suspected that Gonzalez murdered 41-year-old Ian Eckles of Kent and stole his vehicle but searchers are also looking for Eckles while conducting their manhunt ...

Federal agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) joined the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office Thursday in the search for 24-year-old Jorge Omar Alcantara-Gonzalez. The agency says Alcantara-Gonzalez is a Mexican citizen who is in the United States illegally. Betw ...

Kittitas County Sheriff's Deputies arrested two Puyallup men along Highway 97 after a theft at a construction site. Deputies were dispatched Wednesday after a foreman called Kittcom noting there was a man running from his work site and that he was missing tools...

A 19-year-old Spokane man died on a hike in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Three Queens. The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says Sean Mortensen was hiking with his brother and a friend over the Labor Day weekend when he went for a solo hike Friday morning and did not return...