Attention drivers! Roadwork alert! WSDOT announces chip sealing project on US 97 from Tonasket to Oroville. Plan your route accordingly for smoother roads ahead.
Troopers say a 2004 Ford Ranger pickup truck was traveling westbound on the highway when it left the roadway and landed in the adjacent Bonaparte Creek.
When you think of garlic, you probably think of vampires and Italian food, right? Well, I know I sure do at least.
But even though the first mental whiff of this pungent little pal, whose proper name is Allium sativum, might tend to conjure images of the Mediterranean mainland and ancient Romania, it's actually native to Southern and Central Asia, as well as northeastern Iran, but has proliferated
The Okanogan County Public Health Department announced that 11 residents of North Valley Extended Care in Tonasket died from COVID-19 after a recent outbreak at the facility in which 32 people tested positive.
No further information about the situation will be released
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The Okanogan County Sheriff's Office has identified the body that was found near the Okanogan River south of Tonasket as Alejandro Porras-Vega from that town.
He was 20 years old when he went missing in May of 2019.
The Department says due to the state of decomposition there needs to be further examination by a forensic anthropologist to determine the cause of death
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As of December 16th, many of the main forest roads on the Tonasket Ranger District will be closed for wildlife winter range protections and winter recreation. No wheeled and tracked vehicles are allowed on the roads excluding snowmobiles. Roads will be indicated they are closed with barricades, gates or berms of snow...
One vehicle heading northbound on State Route 155, near milepost 52, eight miles north of Tonasket in Okanogan County rolled over Friday morning and resulted in the fatality of the single occupant in the car. Washington State Patrol Trooper John Bryant stated the notification of the accident came from a Colville Tribal police officer...