Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson hopes the state’s space entrepreneurs can pilot their industry to infinity and beyond. To that end, Ferguson signed an executive order Monday night launching the …

CASHMERE — For Diana Turner, Halloween on Cottage Avenue is one of the joys of living there. She and Delia Cooper came to the Cashmere City Council on Sept. 28 with a request: Find a way to keep the celebration fun while making the street safer for children.

CHELAN — The city is exploring whether lower water and electricity costs could help pay to replace the aging irrigation system at Lake Chelan Golf Course.

CHELAN — Chelan has received a $75,000 state grant to study how the Lake Chelan area could develop an economic engine that relies less on a stream of tourism that can not only vary in length, but sometimes be subject to smoke conditions.

CHELAN — Chelan city employees covered by a union contract will receive a 3.5% wage increase next year and a new health insurance option under a one-year agreement approved by the City Council on Sept. 22.

WENATCHEE — The Community Foundation of North Central Washington will match donations dollar for dollar through June 2027, up to nearly $170,000, as part of a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary.

CHELAN — Visitors to three Lake Chelan-area parks will run into temporary closures this fall and winter as crews make improvements at Riverwalk Park, Manson Bay Park and Old Mill Park, Chelan PUD announced Sept. 28.

WENATCHEE — Businesses, nonprofits, homeowners and renters hurt by the Chelan Hills Fire can now apply for low-interest federal disaster loans, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced Sept. 28.

CASHMERE — The Cashmere Market has closed for the season, and there will be no market Sept. 30 or Oct. 7, Cascade Community Markets said.

LEAVENWORTH — Leavenworth is the most-searched trending Thanksgiving destination in the United States this year, according to a holiday travel report released Thursday, Sept. 24, by vacation rental marketplace HomeToGo.

CARLTON — The Methow Valley Ranger District plans to start prescribed burning Monday, Oct. 5, in the Libby Creek drainage west of Carlton if conditions are favorable.

LEAVENWORTH — Anglers may keep coho salmon caught in two stretches of the Icicle River starting Wednesday, Sept. 30, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced.

WENATCHEE — Smoke from prescribed burns may soon be visible in the Wenatchee Valley, Leavenworth, Plain and the Lake Chelan area as the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest begins its fall burning season.

Washington Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove is dialing back his goal to protect 77,000 acres of older state forests from timber harvest even as he asks lawmakers to give him more tools to do …

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 …

The latest forecast of state tax collections released Friday did nothing to brighten Washington’s budget outlook. But it does predict the state’s new income tax will gross hundreds of …

In a closely watched decision, Washington’s largest union of state government workers has ratified a new two-year contract that provides no pay raises but avoids takeaways on health care and other …

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday asked President Donald Trump for tens of millions of dollars in federal aid to help communities recover from devastating wildfires this summer. Across the …

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College's art instructors are stepping out from behind the lectern and onto the gallery walls this fall. The 2026 WVC Art Faculty Exhibition opens the 2026-27 …

WENATCHEE — The NCW Audubon Society will host an online presentation Oct. 14 examining more than two decades of community science tracking wintering raptors across the Pacific Northwest. The …