NCWLIFE Evening News

•Authorities in Douglas County say they’ve arrested a 16-year-old male suspect in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a motorist on Highway 97 north of Orondo. •A website formed by an anonymous group of faculty and staff is asking the Wenatchee Valley College Board of Trustees to not renew President Faimous Harrison’s contract. •North Central Washington’s two representatives in Congress cast competing v...

•Authorities are investigating the case of a motorist found dead this afternoon along Highway 97 in Douglas County. •A 56-year-old man armed with Samurai swords was arrested by the East Cascade SWAT Team on Tuesday after allegedly threatening to QUOTE “blow up” Chelan County sheriff’s deputies. •Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown is demanding the Federal Communications Commission publish...

•Wenatchee Valley military veterans and their many supporters marched, rode, and drove the route today along Chelan Avenue, in commemoration of Veterans Day. •The Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority plans to hold a public meeting on Monday concerning its proposed Tax Increment Financing district, which it hopes to install in the Malaga area. •Washington’s two U.S. Senators were NOT among the ei...

•Wenatchee Valley firefighters were called to the Columbia Riverside near the foot of Crawford Avenue on Friday for a campfire that grew out of control. •The Wenatchee Valley honors its veterans tomorrow with its annual parade and related events. •Chelan County commissioners awarded thirty-five tourism-related groups a portion of over $220,000 in grants last week.

•A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot. •The Wenatchee City Council on Thursday adopted a Criminal Justice Sales Tax, adding a 0.1 percent sales and use tax on business conducted within the city. •A Wenatchee Valley man whose child was exposed to illicit drugs in the family home two years ago was s...

•A judge has blocked Chelan County’s attempt to place a moratorium on new tax-increment financing districts. •A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot. •Residents in the Lake Wenatchee fire district have succeeded in a lawsuit to overturn the election that approved a $15 million dollar bond issue over...

•A rural highway collision on Tuesday involved a Moses Lake school bus carrying children, but fortunately did not result in any injuries. •The Grant County Jail in Ephrata has become the site of another inmate death, the second one in less than a year. •Federal prosecutors allege that an Omak man downloaded child sexual abuse material to his smartphone on multiple occasions.

•Okanogan County Sheriff Paul Budrow says a single-vehicle crash outside the town of Okanogan proved deadly on Saturday. All told, 11 individuals were in the vehicle when it rolled. •Teachers and staff at the tiny Palisades Elementary School in rural Douglas County discovered a burglary Monday morning. •The Chelan-Douglas Action Council says it began to see some increased need last week as SNAP us...

•A Brewster woman was struck and killed Saturday night on Highway 97, five miles east of her hometown. •Authorities have identified the Wenatchee woman killed last week when her bedroom caught fire. •Community members from the Wenatchee Valley gathered this past weekend at the Wenatchee Valley Museums' Day of the Dead event to celebrate and honor loved ones who’ve died.

•The Wenatchee and East Wenatchee Police Departments have disabled a default setting on their Flock Safety surveillance systems after U.S. Border Patrol was able to access their license plate data without their knowledge. •A sheriff’s deputy’s sense of smell led to an arrest Wednesday in what authorities say was a major Douglas County cannabis operation. •Travelers on Interstate 90 will have to di...

•Washington State’s top cop is calling for a lower standard to measure intoxication among drivers. •Wildfire teams began their last steps this week to wrap up response to the Lower Sugarloaf and Labor Mountain Fires. •Prosecutors on Wednesday withdrew charges against a Wenatchee man accused of hurling three Molotov cocktails in an attack on his former partner and her current boyfriend.

•A Bridgeport woman is dead following a two-car head-on accident Tuesday afternoon on Highway 97, about a mile north of the Beebe Bridge. •The East Wenatchee City Council Tuesday night tabled a resolution to change its banner display policy, following more than an hour of comments from the public in the Eastmont Junior High Auditorium. •An East Wenatchee woman is facing a possible 10-day jail term...

•A Wenatchee man faces a likely prison term of almost 10 years after pleading guilty this week to sex crimes against a child. •Warnings about a possible gunfire incident Friday led East Wenatchee police to make three arrests. •The city of Quincy’s $15.7 million dollar plan to build a new aquatic center at East Park is beginning to come together.

•Two separate accidents on Highway 97 near Chelan, happening about three miles apart, sent a combined 10 people to the hospital this weekend. •An estimated 1,500 people were on hand Saturday for Wenatchee’s second No Kings rally of the year, voicing opposition to Trump administration policies on immigration, the environment, the economy and more. •Okanogan County deputies say a man visiting his st...

•Two of the dozen men arrested in the Wenatchee Valley in last summer’s Net Nanny sting operation have been charged federally. •The already-historic Hanford Nuclear Site has made history again, turning the first of its deadly radioactive waste into rods of glass for easier storage. •The Eastmont High School Choir is joining the Apollo Club to perform “Firefighter’s Creed,” a choral piece composed...

•Even as the threat from natural wildfires begins to wind down, prescribed burn operations in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest are set to begin for the season. •Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire issued their final written update today as they put the worst of that wildland blaze behind them. •Fusion energy company Helion has been granted a conditional use permit by Chelan County to begin...

•Serve Wenatchee Valley is continuing to ask for the community’s help as it works to reopen. •The former Diamond Company warehouse on Columbia Street near Hale Park is now rubble, after a fire early Monday consumed much of its interior. •For the first time in six weeks, there are no wildfire evacuation notices active in Chelan County.

•A 42-year-old teacher at a Coulee Dam elementary school was arrested Monday as a part of a police operation targeting alleged online predators. •A teenage Moses Lake driver was injured Monday when she allegedly passed through a stop sign at a highway intersection south of Ephrata and was struck from the side. •Fire crews are gaining a tighter and tighter grip on the two large wildfires burning in...

•A warehouse alongside the Wenatchee railroad track was consumed by fire early this morning, and fire officials say they haven’t yet been able to search the structure for anyone who might have been inside. •The cool wet weather and snowfall that closed Blewett Pass for nearly four hours this morning has been good news for those watching the Labor Mountain and Lower Sugarloaf Fires. •The Eastmont p...

•Three Grant County men are jailed on suspicion of drug crimes after a Moses Lake investigation netted about 25 pounds of illegal drugs. •After more than a month of stress for homeowners around the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, all evacuation alerts around that nearly 43,000-acre wildfire have been lifted. •There was no better time than National Hydrogen Day in the middle of Public Power Week for the Doug...

•Containment estimates jumped today on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, which has menaced Wenatchee and Upper Valley communities since it was sparked by lightning September 1st. •A Wenatchee man arrested back in April for hosing down a car full of people with a fire extinguisher has entered a probation agreement.  •Washington Senator Patty Murray held a press conference Wednesday with residents and small...

•A jury in King County has awarded nearly $17 million to the family of a Wenatchee man who was killed in a 2019 plane crash in Alaska.  •Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire say they’re happy with their progress on that 42,000-acre blaze, which is now at 66% containment.  •After more than two weeks of detours and closures, drivers can once again use Blewett Pass.

•An early morning flood has temporarily closed the Serve Wenatchee Valley office and Fresh HOPE Market after a waterline broke overnight.  •One of the two wildland firefighters accused of traveling to the Lower Sugarloaf fireline in a stolen Jeep has pleaded guilty in the crime. •The Wenatchee School District is preparing to ask voters to approve a $294 million bond to replace Wenatchee High Schoo...

•The city of Wenatchee has closed one of its two Safe Park locations, for people living out of their vehicles. •A group of voters are asking a judge to overturn the successful bond issue passed in August to support Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue. •Teams controlling the Lower Sugarloaf Fire spent much of Sunday using controlled firing operations to shore up containment.

•The weather outlook tonight has crews at the Lower Sugarloaf Fire on high alert. •The Grant County Sheriff’s Office has identified the employee who was allegedly involved in a domestic violence incident this week. •Governor Bob Ferguson has condemned the sudden termination of more than $1.1 billion dollars in federal funding for Washington clean energy projects.