Chelan County News

Okanogan County authorities are searching for a Twisp man, armed with a machete and possibly a firearm, in the Buttermilk area outside of Twisp.

Chelan County deputies responded to a one vehicle fatality traffic accident on Camas Creek Road in Peshastin, WA on Monday May 21st around 5pm.

CASHMERE, Chelan County - The city of Cashmere is looking for a contractor to upgrade its wastewater treatment facility at an estimated cost of $13.2 million to $14.6 million.

A four-way race has emerged for a rare open Chelan County Superior Court seat after candidate filing week ended Friday afternoon.

Police arrested Christopher Wilson, 31, in the case. Wilson was a student at the same beauty school where Mackenzie was enrolled.

It cost the Lake Chelan School District at least a 14 months and $119,000 to fire the elementary school teacher accused of sexual misconduct with former students, and students as young as 10-years-old. Former Morgen Owings Elementary School teacher K.C. Craven accepted one year's salary, about $55,000, to withdraw his termination appeal during a ... (more)

Reid Cowell stands in front of the Chelan County Courthouse in Wenatchee, Wash. May 3, 2012.

The teacher already has been on paid leave since March of 2011 when parents accused him of touching their son inappropriately.

Mary Signorelli, a Lake Chelan Community Hospital commissioner and Chelan small business owner, will run for the Chelan County Commission.

Tent housing went up at the park last week in preparation for the local cherry harvest that will begin in June.

The family of a Wenatchee High School student who drowned during gym class in November 2011 filed a lawsuit against the school district in Chelan County Court Friday.

Chelan County officials will use more than $500,000 in Department of Ecology grants and local funds to collect hazardous waste and yard clippings and investigate and stop illegal dumping.

A Chelan PUD General Manager John Janney has announced that External Affairs Director Jeff Smith has agreed to join the PUD's Senior Management Team as Managing Director of District Services after Wayne Wright retires at the end of July.

CHELAN -- Bruce Perret's April 23 suicide rocked many individuals who either saw some part of it, knew Perret, or deal with the ongoing grief associated with suicide.

The Pybus Public Market has landed its first tenant - Mike's Meat & Farmers Market.

A About 4,300 of Chelan PUD's 48,000 customers have signed up forA Powerpay , the District's paperless billing option, since the online system debuted in July, Kerri Wendell, customer information administrator, told PUD commissioners Monday.

The State Building Code Council must adopt state energy codes that require homes and buildings constructed from 2013 through 2031 to incrementally move towards a 70 percent reduction in energy use by 2031.

Adam D. Ellis, a 45-year-old Leavenworth man whose ex-girlfriend stabbed him in the neck Tuesday afternoon, was released from the hospital and arrested Wednesday as the aggressor in the incident, officials said.

Christopher Scott Wilson rejected a manslaughter plea that could have sent him to prison for less than seven years in the death of Mackenzie Cowell.

A 22-year-old Entiat woman fought off a man who grabbed and assaulted her, then attempted to pull her into his car just after 6 p.m., Saturday, April 28, said Chelan County Sheriff's Department Sgt.