NCWLIFE Evening News

•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...

•Vehicles in a tow yard alongside Highway 97A caught fire Wednesday evening in Entiat. •A man who shot and killed a Quincy teenager in 2022 must be resentenced for the murder. •The Badger Mountain Ski Hill is experiencing financial woes due to this winter’s lack of snow.

•An employee on a contractor crew hired by the Chelan County PUD has died along Lake Chelan after a utility pole collapsed underneath him. •The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help locating 33-year-old David Gimlett, a Leavenworth man who has been missing since last week. •A DUI wreck outside of Omak injured three people on Tuesday night.

•The Wenatchee Valley ski community came out today to honor a local legend Otto Ross. •A Wenatchee man faces possible hit-and-run charges after allegedly striking a group of hikers with his pickup on Saturday, injuring a father and his 8-year-old child. •The East Wenatchee City Council is proposing changes to the city’s banner display policy.

•East Wenatchee police say a teen driver led them on a high-speed pursuit early Saturday morning, endangering bystanders and eventually crashing in the 800 block of Valley Mall Parkway. •Chelan County sheriff's deputies say they apprehended a suspect Friday night in a shooting that left one man wounded in downtown Chelan. •A winter rockslide closed a portion of Highway 155 in Grant County on Satur...

•A structure fire and a vehicle falling into an irrigation canal kept Wenatchee Valley firefighters busy on Thursday. •A Chelan County state legislator is speaking out against a bill that would bar Washington police departments from hiring any officers who joined ICE during the Trump Administration. •Another piece of the Confluence Parkway bypass project pulled into Wenatchee early this morning.

•A group of Chelan County Sheriff’s deputies have filed an $8 million tort claim against their employer, alleging Sheriff Mike Morrison demoted them for supporting his predecessor during the 2022 election. •The Ninth Street railroad crossing is closed until Friday morning while the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway completes track work. •A Grand Coulee man is charged with five counts of first-d...

•Chelan County is now among the Washington counties in line for federal disaster assistance, following December’s atmospheric river event. •East Wenatchee police say they’ve made two arrests in the theft of newly-delivered Amazon packages from a residential front porch. •A state representative from Quincy defended the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, in a hearing on a Washi...

•Grant County sheriff’s deputies say they’ve apprehended an international scam artist who allegedly defrauded a local man out of more than $100,000 dollars. •Okanogan County sheriff’s deputies say they had to shoot and kill a dog that emerged from a suspect’s care and attacked them Monday. •Wenatchee Valley residents joined together for yet another public demonstration Monday in Memorial Park.

•A commercial semi truck driver is now charged with DUI after allegedly smashing his Freightliner into a state Department of Transportation snowplow on Interstate 90 near Kittitas. •An Ephrata man is dead and a fellow driver charged with DUI and vehicular homicide after two pickup trucks collided head-on Sunday northeast of George. •A Saturday structure fire in Grand Coulee destroyed a mobile home...

•Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 39-year-old Ephrata man overnight for allegedly shooting another man early Thursday morning. •Wenatchee police say they’ve cracked a December robbery in which a customer made off with the contents of a cash drawer from the Union 76 gas station at Ferry Street and South Mission. •Stevens Pass Ski Resort has suffered from the unusually warm and wet winter.

•A convicted murderer will be back in Douglas County court next month after successfully appealing two of his lesser charges. •December’s heavy storms were hard on transportation structures throughout Washington, including the Wenatchee River Bridge. •Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority and Chelan County commissioners met Tuesday to review a proposed interlocal agreement for the Malaga TIF Dist...

•Two parcels within the Cashmere Mill District will become the home of a new Dollar General Store after the Port of Chelan County sold a portion of the former mill site to a retail developer. •Sheriff   Sheriff Mike Morrison of Chelan County, Joe Kriete of Grant County and others have joined in opposing a piece of state legislation that would update the eligibility standards for their offices. •Ri...

•Storm damage has made Chumstick Highway a crucial route between Leavenworth and U.S. Highway 2, but even that bypass is suffering from the weather. •Jason Heinz resigned from his seat on the Eastmont School Board via a letter shortly before Monday night’s meeting began. •With the 2026 legislative session cranking up, a Grant County lawmaker wants to roll back taxes on specialty fuels, which he sa...

•A federal judge has overturned the $5 million dollar award to an East Wenatchee man who said he was the victim of on-the-job discrimination by the East Wenatchee Water District. •A federal judge in Seattle has blocked the Trump Administration from enforcing an executive order that would require all ballots to be received by Election Day and proof of citizenship to vote. •The 18-year-old driver wh...

•A Wenatchee police officer says he was temporarily blinded by a handheld laser, and the man who allegedly held it now faces a criminal charge. •A proposed bill in Washington state would limit agencies who use automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, from retaining collected data for longer than 72 hours. •A Leavenworth couple rang in the New Year, celebrating more than just the start of 2026. R...

•An East Wenatchee man who confessed to the fatal shooting of his neighbor was sentenced today to nearly 17 years in prison. •The Washington State Department of Commerce admitted this week that it significantly inflated the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that would be reduced by eight Climate Commitment Act projects, attributing the mistake to a data entry error. •The East Wenatchee City Counc...

•Just as Highway 2 was beginning to adjust to limited traffic, Tuesday’s burst of winter weather caused some complications at Stevens Pass and elsewhere. •Chelan County’s Solid Waste program is extending its free flood disposal voucher program to next week. •The West Coast Health Alliance says it will ensure continued access to vaccinations after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revi...

•Confluence Health anticipates beginning construction on a new cancer center in November, which will expand space available for care while consolidating services into one location. •An Eastmont School Board member already charged with assault and stalking in Chelan County now faces felony domestic violence charges in Douglas County. •Sheriff’s detectives in Grant County are looking into a set of c...

•Chelan County Commissioners approved a resolution today supporting the Rivercom 911 sales tax measure on ballots next month. •The continuing closure on Highway 2 in Tumwater Canyon has made Chumstick Highway the only route between Leavenworth and Coles Corner. •An employee at a care agency who admitted embezzling nearly $20,000 dollars from vulnerable adult clients has been ordered to serve jail...