NCWLIFE Evening News

• The Washington Supreme Court says the Grant County Jail has broad immunity in a lawsuit brought by the survivors of an inmate who died from a heroin overdose. • he Wenatchee man arrested early Tuesday for an alleged knife attack on his girlfriend is now facing three felony charges, and Douglas County sheriff’s deputies say the assault was captured on home security video. • Chelan County is movin...

• The Common Ground Community Housing Trust is accepting applications for its affordable homes on Ninth Street in Wenatchee. • The Washington state Legislature has passed a bill to ban law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings. • The killer of a young mother in Moses Lake has entered a plea in her death.

•An East Wenatchee man is jailed after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend in the neck early this morning. The assault was reported just after 2 a.m. •The state of Washington and the federal government are expecting to pay roughly $180,000 dollars for temporary repairs on Beaver Hill, a steep and winding road grade just outside the town of Plain. •The Washington Legislature is sprinting toward a Mar...

• About 70 people gathered at Memorial Park in Wenatchee on Sunday to protest recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, joining anti-war demonstrations held across the country. • The early access lottery is open for the North Cascades National Park.  • There’s a new sheriff in town. Tyler Caille, the Douglas County undersheriff for the last seven years,  was sworn in this morning by County...

• A Moses Lake man accused of murder in the death of his grandfather in 2024 has entered a guilty plea. • The veteran fire chief for the city of Manson and its surroundings has announced his retirement. • On Saturday, the Chuck Wagon Ministries food pantry will begin operations at the King’s Harvest Church of Christ in Wenatchee.

•An elderly Grant County man who plotted from prison to have his ex-wife and daughter killed cannot be released on medical grounds, despite documented health problems. •A Wenatchee 16-year-old was struck and injured by another teen Tuesday in the parking lot of Winco Foods, and now that driver is facing hit-and-run charges. •The Chopaka Lake and Cold Spring Campgrounds in Okanogan County are at ri...

•A Manson business owner and his son no longer face federal charges for illegally importing emissions devices. •A Wenatchee Valley mental health counselor was sentenced Monday to one month in jail after inappropriately messaging or touching two of his clients — ages 14 and 18 — told police that he had inappropriately messaged them or touched them. •Central Washington lawmakers are working to put t...

•Progress is underway on Moses Lake’s new hospital building. Samaritan Healthcare says the new hospital location will be open for patient visits two weeks from now. •An 18-year-old suspect in a shooting last month in downtown Chelan has entered a guilty plea, but not to the shooting itself. •Firefighters were called this morning to a commercial structure fire at cryptocurrency mining operation nea...

•The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department responded to emergency calls over the weekend to three different residential fires around the city, two of them in the Sunnyslope neighborhood. •Two different open letters submitted by Confluence Health physicians and former leaders continue to raise concerns about the health system's planned cancer center. •The Wenatchee Jazz Workshop has become a musical tra...

•Grant County authorities have released the names of the five sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot a Moses Lake man on Monday evening. •Douglas County PUD commissioners declared a maintenance emergency at their Renewable Hydrogen Production Facility at Baker Flats on Tuesday, and authorized General Manager Gary Ivory to negotiate new contracts for its hydrogen electrolyzer system. •A Wenatchee man...

•A former Sterling Junior High custodian accused of sexually abusing a student pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of third-degree rape. •On Monday, a segment of 8th Street Southeast in East Wenatchee will be closed from South Mary to South Nile Avenue. •The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Amazon must stand trial in a civil case accusing the online retailer of contributing to...

•Authorities have identified the man shot and killed by Grant County sheriff’s deputies on Monday. •Douglas County has a new sheriff, effective March 1st. •The city of Wenatchee has officially launched its new utility billing payment website.

•One man is dead after a police-involved shooting northeast of Moses Lake. •The Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center’s application to renovate and expand its facility is under review by the city. •Washington is looking for federal help in its cleanup from December’s atmospheric river event.

•A Wenatchee mother and her 9-year-old son were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, and by this afternoon, they had been removed from the United States. •Young would-be surgeons suited up Saturday and started exploring in the Matters of the Heart event, held at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. •Commissioners for the Grant County PUD could decide the fate of t...

•An apartment complex caught fire Thursday afternoon in Wenatchee, burning one unit in a duplex and displacing a family of three. The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department responded to a call at 3:33 p.m. •The city of East Wenatchee will close a portion of Fifth Street Northeast next week to begin infrastructure projects in the area. •The Building Better Tomorrows Foundation is sponsoring an Instrument...

•Congressman Dan Newhouse was one of six Republicans voting yesterday to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada. •Chelan County leadership visited the remote Lake Chelan village of Stehekin this week to learn more about the status of Company Creek Road and other damages from the December storms. •The Town Nissan car dealership in East Wenatchee, owned by the Barros and Lisson families, i...

•U.S. Highway 2 is now fully open between Monroe and Leavenworth for the first time in two months. •Rivercom, the emergency dispatch service for Chelan and Douglas counties, is well on its way to a new funding stream. •The city of Omak and NCW Libraries reached an agreement after a dispute over the status of the Omak Public Library.

•The U.S. Army Ranger accused of committing a mass shooting outside a Gorge Amphitheatre music festival will be tried in military court, rather than in Grant County. •One Confluence Health pharmacist went above and beyond for a cancer patient’s treatment last week. •The selection pageant for Apple Blossom 2026 is drawing near, and NCWLIFE’s Eric Granstrom has been getting to know all ten candidate...

• The city of Chelan has issued a draft environmental assessment, looking at the impacts of a proposed runway relocation at Lake Chelan Airport.   •The Top 10 finalists for Apple Blossom Queen have been making the rounds in the Wenatchee Valley, and now the time for their final pageant is drawing near. •The empty seat on the Chelan Fire & Rescue Commissioner Board has been filled.

•The Washington State Department of Transportation says the Tumwater Canyon segment of Highway 2 is expected to reopen in mid-February, a month earlier than expected. •An injured construction worker on the site of the Majestic Apartment project in downtown Wenatchee was rescued via a ladder truck yesterday afternoon. •A man who ventured onto thin ice this week at Fish Lake had a stroke of luck… •G...

•Students from the Eastmont School District left school for a demonstration today against U.S. immigration policy. •Douglas County has launched an agricultural land analysis to evaluate its agricultural resource lands. •A man facing federal charges from local bank robberies in September is now charged in local court as well.

•Chelan County has asked Gov. Bob Ferguson to seek federal help for engineering and construction assistance in Stehekin. •Wenatchee police are searching for a woman missing since mid-January. •A transit bus was T-boned Tuesday by a pickup driver just outside Moses Lake.

•The man found guilty of shooting his former girlfriend to death on Badger Mountain Road three years ago appeared from prison by video yesterday to have two of his convictions vacated. •Roughly 188,000 people are now in line for a share of a $1.3 million dollar settlement from the Chelan-Douglas Health District. •Douglas and Grant County sheriff’s deputies cooperated Monday to arrest two people su...

•An Okanogan County man charged with the murder of his infant daughter was arrested Friday in Iowa. •A 49-year-old Chelan woman is dead after being struck by a pickup truck while she was walking on Highway 97 near Pateros. •The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority says Dollar General has backed out of talks to build a retail development at the port’s Cashmere Mill District.

•Sheriff's Emergency Management coordinator Sgt. Jason Reinfeld said the body of 33-year-old David Gimlett was found Thursday in Peshastin Creek by a Chelan County Volunteer Search and Rescue team member. •Chelan County sheriff’s deputies and partner agencies were involved in a dramatic winter rope rescue earlier this month. •The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office will no longer accept cash or check p...