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With legislation expected to pass, city may approve tax increase in two weeks

WENATCHEE — A majority of Wenatchee City Council members say they will vote to impose a sales tax increase, possibly before the end of the month, to help pay off the Town...

Sewer plant transformation to begin

WENATCHEE — A $9.5 million effort to transform Wenatchee’s sewer treatment plant from a smelly eyesore to a waterfront attraction will get underway this week. While...

Old news

100 years ago — 1912: Chelan County Treasurer C.A. Battles has begun a new system for the collection of personal property taxes, which total $52,060 for the past year. He...

At last, a verdict

WENATCHEE — Steven M. Swinford stood straight with hands folded as a Chelan County jury convicted him in the murder of his longtime friend.

Burn ban in effect for Okanogan County

The Washington State Department of Ecology is calling for a Stage 1 Burn Ban for all of Okanogan County today through 10 a.m. Tuesday when the ban could be either lifted or...

Douglas PUD plans new transmission line

EAST WENATCHEE — The Douglas County PUD will begin work this summer on a new 230 kilovolt transmission line needed to more reliably keep the lights on as the city grows. PUD...

Chelan PUD to give public first look at fiber findings

WENATCHEE — After sacking two fiber-network managers and launching a year-long analysis into the indebted fiber system’s costs and needs, the Chelan County PUD will...

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Wenatchee Horse Lake Road and Burch Mountain Road closed until mid-April

Horse Lake Road and Burch Mountain Road closed until mid-April

Portions of Horse Lake Road and Burch Mountain Road will be closed to vehicle traffic starting Wednesday until April 15 due to soft and muddy conditions.

Man injured by accidental gunshot

EAST WENATCHEE — A 38-year-old East Wenatchee man accidentally shot himself in the upper leg about 9:15 a.m. Friday. The man, whose name was not available, suffered an...

Wenatchee School District among the state’s most efficient in student transportation

Mass transit may want to take a lesson from the Wenatchee School District. Other school districts will.

Heart awareness walk rescheduled from today

WENATCHEE — A walk to promote heart heath has been rescheduled from today to Feb. 17 because of rain. Organizers of the annual walk, called Go Red for Women Walk, said the...

Chelan PUD almost ready to talk fiber

WENATCHEE — After sacking two fiber-network managers and launching a year-long analysis into the indebted fiber system’s costs and needs, the Chelan County PUD will...

Peek in the pokeys

WENATCHEE — Do ghosts haunt Chelan County’s first official jail, still standing solid at 106 years old? If so, those pesky specters fly in flocks and have left enough...

Old news

100 years ago — 1912: More books are needed for Wenatchee’s new library. Library board members have authorized $500 to be used to supplement the present literary...

Eastside man gunned down in New Mexico

FARMINGTON, N.M. — An East Wenatchee man with gang ties was shot and killed in New Mexico and another Wenatchee area man with local gang ties is missing there. The Daily...

Cuts in patrol time among cost-saving measures in Douglas County

EAST WENATCHEE — Residents of Douglas County should not be surprised if they see a sheriff’s deputy sitting in a patrol car with the engine off this year. Sheriff...

Senate approves latest bill to help Town Toyota Center

WENATCHEE — The state Senate has passed a bill that would allow Wenatchee to impose a sales tax increase without a public vote to help rescue the Town Toyota Center from...

Swinford jury breaks with no verdict

WENATCHEE — Jurors in the second murder trial of Steven M. Swinford retired to consider the evidence Thursday afternoon. Swinford’s attorney Jeremy Ford, who also...

Swinford again claims self-defense in killing

WENATCHEE — A more defiant Steven Swinford faced a more impassioned prosecutor Thursday as he testified in his second trial for murder. Swinford, now being retried for the...

90-day sentence in troubled incest case

WENATCHEE — Brent Magarrell, a Wenatchee man initially accused of rape and incest, was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail on greatly reduced charges. Magarrell, 45,...

If you go

If you go What: Chelan County PUD release of fiber-system analysis findings.

Douglas PUD to rehab 45-year-old hatchery

WELLS DAM — Douglas County PUD commissioners have agreed to hire a Gig Harbor engineering firm to modernize the fish hatchery at Wells Dam. The hatchery dates to 1967, the...

Parents charged in death of teen

OKANOGAN — Carlton parents who police say unsuccessfully tried to faith-heal their son back to health have been charged with second-degree murder. The charges against...

Tried again: Swinford offers defense in fatal shooting

WENATCHEE — But for an empty iPod battery, Steven Swinford might never have come to trial. Swinford, now 21, was trying to plug in and play music from the device when an...

Old news

100 years ago — 1912: Photographer L.L. Lindsley, whose views of the Lake Chelan area and surrounding mountains have created considerable interest, is in Wenatchee today en...

Bob Stewart guilty in animal abuse case

WENATCHEE — Robert J. “Bob” Stewart, frequently in trouble with Chelan County authorities over his rural Cashmere homestead, was convicted last week of seven...

Court denies McKenna’s request to reconsider Goldmark victory

OLYMPIA — The issue over whether the Okanogan County PUD can condemn state land to make way for a Methow Valley transmission line can now move forward in state Court of...

State pushes whooping cough booster as outbreaks rise

OLYMPIA — Rising whooping cough numbers — including a few infant deaths in the last two years — has led the state to recommend a pertussis vaccination for...

Opioid reduction campaign is working, physician says

WENATCHEE — There might be another factor in the rising cost of prescription opioids: The effort led by Wenatchee Dr. Malcolm Butler to reduce the amount of opioid...

Heroin seizures jump

In the Wenatchee area, the Columbia River Drug Task Force recovered or purchased 7 grams of heroin. That contrasts with 299 grams seized in 2011. Seizures of heroin have also...

Hooking a younger crowd

WENATCHEE — Move over, oxycodone and methamphetamine. Heroin is becoming a contender for drug-of-choice in the Wenatchee Valley.

Heroin abuser: ‘My fall from grace is extreme’

Dave Cook sees the danger in heroin overtaking oxycodone as the drug of choice in Wenatchee. “The advantage with prescription drugs is you know exactly what you’re...

Blood and guns: Forensics take stage in Swinford trial

WENATCHEE — Among the survivors of Paul Raney, the sound of a handgun mechanism in a Chelan County courtroom was reason to shudder.

Homeowner interrupts burglary

WENATCHEE — A Wenatchee resident interrupted a burglary in his home late Tuesday morning, saving himself the loss of a gaming system and two laptop computers. The man, who...

Wife reports assault; man found dead

COULEE CITY — Deputies investigating a woman’s report of an assault by her husband found a man in his 50s dead at a Coulee City home.

Old news

100 years ago — 1912: A.Z. Wells of Wells & Morris Hardware was yesterday elected president of the Pacific Northwest Hardware and Implement Dealers Association. H.D....

Mayor says arena will close at least temporarily

WENATCHEE — Even if local leaders agree on a fix for the Town Toyota Center, Wenatchee Mayor Frank Kuntz believes it will have to close its doors for at least part of this...

Bill would let financially ‘fragile’ Wenatchee tax without public vote

WENATCHEE — Legislation that would allow Wenatchee to impose a sales tax increase without a public vote to help pay for Town Toyota Center cleared its first hurdle on...

Andrew Williams’s home state is catching up to his historic wedding

All the barriers to Andrew Williams’s marriage fell suddenly away in May 2004, except one. Wenatchee native Williams and his longtime partner, Juan Teran Navarro, had met...

Disaster volunteer named to state Board of Health

EAST WENATCHEE — Don Oliver, an East Wenatchee resident retired after 33 years in public health, was named to the state Board of Health, state officials said Tuesday....

Funding losses prompt Family Planning changes

TWISP — Okanogan Family Planning — serving a county with some of the state’s highest teenage pregnancy rates — has worked out a deal with its counterpart...

Train-car collision victim is from Grand Coulee

EPHRATA — William L. Hertenstein, 81, of Grand Coulee has been identified as the man killed about 9 a.m. Tuesday in a train-car collision at the Third Avenue railroad...

Two injured in two-car accident

PESHASTIN —Two people were injured about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in a two-car accident at the intersection of Highway 2 and Main Street at Peshastin. Azucena M. Guzman, 36, of...

Building to a crescendo

Wenatchee Valley jazz students have been warming up — and getting some serious coaching — from six world-class jazz musicians all week in preparation for two big shows...

Two arrested for assault, robbery

WENATCHEE — Witness statements and surveillance video helped police arrest two Wenatchee residents in the Jan. 2 assault of a 27-year-old Wenatchee man. “The motive...

Cashmere man carves his niche in fine woodworking

Austin Campbell began making bird houses in his uncle’s shop at the age of six. He always knew he would grow up to work with wood in his hands. Now 22, the Cashmere native...

Child, two adults injured in Head Start bus crash

AmericanTowns Heroes: Ariana Hargis is a Real Livesaver

Ariana Hargis is the kind of lifeguard you want on duty when your loved ones are in the pool. She's a quick-thinking, focused professional with eyes in the back of her head. When...