WENATCHEE — Gov. Bob Ferguson has appointed Douglas County Economic Development Director Soo Ing-Moody to a five-year term on the Wenatchee Valley College Board of Trustees. The board also elected longtime trustee and Bridgeport High School Principal Tamra Jackson as chair, the college announced Nov. 4.

WENATCHEE — Shauna Field has joined the board of directors of the Wenatchee Valley Dispute Resolution Center as it begins serving Okanogan County. Field previously spent 14 years on the board of the Dispute Resolution Center of Okanogan County and worked for 10 years as office manager for the county prosecutor’s office.

WENATCHEE — Author and Wenatchee Valley College English professor Ana Maria Spagna will share her research into a story about Chinese miners who may have been killed along the Columbia River in 1875 during a free public performance Thursday, Nov. 19.

WENATCHEE — Chelan PUD customers raised concerns about the cost of living and asked about the impact of data centers on their bills and whether surplus hydropower revenue could be used to lower rates as commissioners prepare to vote Nov. 16 on a proposed five-year rate plan.

EAST WENATCHEE – The East Wenatchee City Council will interview all nine applicants for two vacant seats at a special meeting Nov. 10, Mayor Jerrilea Crawford said. The agenda calls for the council to nominate and vote on candidates for both seats that night.

EAST WENATCHEE – The East Wenatchee City Council took an initial step Nov. 3 toward bringing three properties along North Jackson Avenue into the city, adding the East Wenatchee Seventh-Day Adventist Church property at 10th Street NE to the area proposed for annexation.

EAST WENATCHEE — Long before Shayne Magdoff had a seat on the East Wenatchee City Council, she was already coming to meetings every month. She turned up at ribbon cuttings, open houses and festivals after she and her husband, Paul, moved to East Wenatchee in 2015.

EAST WENATCHEE – The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority is looking at overhauling parking at Pangborn Memorial Airport, with options that include a new entrance, automated payments and a place for drivers to wait for arriving passengers.

EAST WENATCHEE – The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority is considering using tax increment revenue from the area around Pangborn Memorial Airport to help cover costs for the Airlift Northwest hangar and the first phase of the Trades District. Before making the first allocations, commissioners want to talk with Douglas County about road and utility improvements that could open nearby land to industrial development.

Meta has paid Washington state a record-setting fine of more than $51 million for violating campaign finance laws, but lawmakers are being cautioned not to get too excited about the money.

SEATTLE — Washington’s hospitals anticipate losing nearly $6 billion in revenue through 2033 due to steep Medicaid cuts in the coming months. That’s according to a new report from the …

OLYMPIA – The leader of Washington state public schools says the state should not join a federal tax credit program that would fund K-12 education.  Superintendent of Public Instruction …

OLYMPIA – A Washington state agency has floated cutting services for more than 2,600 residents with developmental disabilities with the goal of saving money to close a looming budget gap. As …

Joelene Keen was overjoyed when she checked her phone on May 11 and saw an email from her husband’s lawyer asking them to call him. She knew her husband, Tomas Keen, wouldn’t see the …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for another redrawing of Washington state’s political maps. On the first day of its new session, the court accepted a legal challenge to the …

CHELAN — Every student in kindergarten through fifth grade at Morgen Owings Elementary received a book by author Ben Clanton as part of an Oct. 2 visit made possible by local donors, businesses and parents.

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee School District enrolled 193 more full-time equivalent students than it budgeted for the 2026-27 school year, though enrollment remains 51 FTE below last year’s level, the …

CHELAN — Chelan Middle School students and staff gathered in the gym Friday, September 25, to celebrate a state award recognizing the school’s progress in closing achievement gaps and helping …

WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School District will hold a Special Education Para Educator Hiring Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 30 as it seeks to fill immediate openings. The hiring fair will be held …

CHELAN — For Chelan freshmen, the first day of high school came with at least one final instruction before walking through the doors on the morning of September 1: Kiss your mom goodbye. A …

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Thank you for bringing attention to the urgent funding challenge facing Manson’s Old Swim Hole restoration project. With the November 15 deadline approaching and approximately $375,000 still needed, I hope this coverage will be a catalyst for action across our valley.

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Each October, people from across Washington make their way to Wenatchee with infrastructure projects to advance, funding questions to answer, and lessons to share. This year, they will return October …

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