Chelan County News

A Wenatchee man charged with driving under the influence registered a blood-alcohol level of .46 percent, nearly six times the legal limit of .08 percent, after being stopped for driving erratically on Highway ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 Smoke from fires in northern California is keeping Wenatchee skies hazy and prompting an air quality advisory.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Just in time for Independence Day, vendors are selling fireworks around the area out of tents, trailers or booths this week.

A handcuffed woman who had been arrested on drug charges and then pressed into working as an informant jumped from a bridge into the Wenatchee River and hasn't been seen since.

Not long after word reached Washington that one of the victims in Sunday's helicopter crash was a resident, people who knew Tom Clausing reached out to share their thoughts.

Firefighters wait for the Chelan County PUD to turn off power to lines near a truck fire Monday morning off Squilchuck Road near Pitcher Canyon Road.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners Monday agreed to give the U.S. Forest Service nearly 372 acres of Cascade Mountain wilderness in exchange for permanent access to a key mountain snow-measurement ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners plan to send the city of Wenatchee a polite letter with a firm bottom line: Back away from our parks.

WENATCHEE &#8212 A prominent official in the Washington tree fruit industry was in critical condition at Central Washington Hospital this afternoon from a bicycle accident on Squilchuck Road.

Sen. Linda Evans Parlette, R-Wenatchee, is seeking re-election to the state Senate.

WENATCHEE &#8212 The remaining families in the Ninth Street Trailer Park will be allowed to stay at the park through August if they pay their August rent, their attorney said Friday.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Results of a federal survey released Wednesday show that 1.6 percent of inmates at Chelan County Regional Justice Center say they have been sexually victimized at the jail in the last six ...

Firefighters from Douglas County, Chelan County and the Wenatchee Fire Department responded to the blaze in an unpopulated area near Blue Grade Road just after 5 p.m. Friday.

SEATTLE &#8212 The state Attorney General's Office has opposed the sale of Puget Sound Energy &#8212 the largest single buyer of Chelan County PUD electricity &#8212 to an international banking and investment ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 A new trailhead that accesses Wenatchee's western foothills trail system could be built on Chelan County PUD land at the end of Castlerock Avenue.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Rock Island Golf Course will get 7.4 acres of Chelan County PUD land to expand to 18 holes.

A Leavenworth woman convicted of starving Siberian husky puppies she was raising and intending to sell has been sentenced to spend three days in jail and pay about $9,000 in fines and restitution.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Catharine DeLong's essay about her fictional friendship with Tom Sawyer earned her first place in the Young Writers Contest sponsored by the Chelan-Douglas Community Network.

Attorney facing gun charges WENATCHEE &#8212 A local attorney who brought a gun into the Chelan County Courthouse wants charges against her thrown out because she claims county District Court judges don't have ...

CHELAN &#8212 Gasoline and food costs just moved down a few lines on the list of financial worries for Chelan-area property owners, who received property tax assessments in the mail last week.