CASHMERE — Cashmere will replace its 26-year-old ladder truck with a surplus truck from the Wenatchee Valley Fire Department for $10,000, avoiding repairs estimated at $250,000 to $600,000 or …

WENATCHEE — Chelan County PUD commissioners have taken the first formal step toward what staff describes as a major transformation of the utility's business operations, approving a request for …

CASHMERE — Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said he would fire any deputy who abused the county’s automated license plate reader system, even if doing so resulted in a fight with the union, …

LEAVENWORTH — Kris Kringl will host a special 40th-year anniversary celebration at this year’s Washington State Autumn Leaf Festival, featuring artists, demonstrations, raffle prizes, sweet …

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley Humane Society and Riverfront Rock Gym will hold a Climb for Cats fundraiser Sunday, Sept. 20, with half of day-pass proceeds going toward care for kittens in the …

CASHMERE — Smith Excavation of Cashmere will continue providing civil construction and emergency-response support to Chelan County PUD under an agreement whose authorized capacity has grown to …

WENATCHEE — Chelan County PUD is considering purchasing an 8.15-acre property in Malaga for $2.1 million as the utility plans for a future substation to accommodate residential, commercial and …

LEAVENWORTH — Weekend rain over the Little Giant and Sisi Fires suppressed activity while complicating response efforts. On the Little Giant Fire, some ridgetops received as much as one to …

WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Humane Society will hold its annual Storybook Endings Gala on Sept. 26 at the Wenatchee Valley Convention Center. The event is the Humane Society's largest …

WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley College has named Hanan Zawideh interim vice president of Organizational Culture, Retention, and Engagement. She began the position Sept. 8. Zawideh has more than …

CASHMERE — A 57-year-old Cashmere man who had been reported missing in late August was found dead Saturday in the Tibbetts Mountain area, according to the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office. …

CASHMERE — Somewhere inside the Chelan County Fair, a prize-winning chicken sculpture sat on a toilet smoking a cigarette. Not far away were enormous pumpkins, carefully arranged peppers, rows …

EAST WENATCHEE — A fire alarm system installed at the Executive Flight Building nearly three decades ago is slated for replacement after the system's manufacturer went out of business and …

CHELAN — Unmapped utilities, an unexpected sewer-line conflict and a previously unidentified marina connection have added nearly $207,000 to Chelan’s State Route 150 sewer main replacement …

LEAVENWORTH — The City of Leavenworth is accepting letters of interest for positions on two new steering committees that will help guide development of the Upper Valley Community Center and a …

LEAVENWORTH —- U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) met with constituents at Leavenworth’s Cascade High School on Sept. 9 to answer questions about public lands, healthcare, voting, immigration and …

LEAVENWORTH — Personnel costs are expected to increase nearly 10% in Leavenworth’s next two-year budget, which staff says is the city’s highest cost center. This comes as staff requests …

CHELAN — The Chelan City Council has awarded a $1.03 million construction contract for improvements to the Washington Booster Pump Station, a project city officials intentionally expanded beyond …

CASHMERE — Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bishop Gretchen Rehberg stood before a crowd at Cashmere’s Spirit of America Memorial on Friday with someone else’s lungs. …

WENATCHEE — As wildfires continue to impact the region, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is asking farmers, ranchers and landowners to prevent accidentally feeding impacted …