NCWLIFE Evening News

•Wenatchee High School students now have another opportunity to earn college credits through the enhanced Accelerated Pathways program. •A judge ruled Thursday that a California man’s statements to highway patrol officers cannot be used as evidence in his trial over a fatal 2022 auto crash. •The Wenatchee City Council approved a $229 million budget for 2026 on Thursday, making it the largest budge...

•Wenatchee Valley College President Faimous Harrison will continue in his position for the next three years. •An East Wenatchee man who made recordings of his sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl must serve 23 years for federal child pornography charges. •Grant County sheriff’s deputies were able to recover a valuable lifesaving tool stolen from a rural fire department.

•A Bridgeport woman who allegedly stabbed a clerk in the face turned herself in to Douglas County authorities on Tuesday. •The operator of one of the Wenatchee Valley’s largest senior living facilities has agreed to a $7 million dollar settlement with the state. •A Wenatchee man was sentenced to federal prison after stealing his brother’s identity to gain a passport for himself, and legal status f...

•About 200 people crowded into a public meeting Monday on the tax increment finance district proposed for the Malaga area. •The city of Quincy will pay $400,000 to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and ensure its industrial wastewater treatment facility complies with its permit, as part of a settlement to resolve a federal Clean Water Act lawsuit. •The Chelan-Douglas Child Ser...

•Police say a four-county narcotics investigation titled “Operation Eastbound and Down” netted four arrests and a large quantity of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs in three cities, including their alleged chief suppliers based in Bridgeport. •The Cascade School District says lead has been detected in several drinking water outlets at different school buildings. •A 16-year-old suspect fro...

•The landlord of an East Wenatchee residential complex has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting one of his tenants back in April. •Sheriff’s deputies have released the identity of the man found shot to death Wednesday in a vehicle on the shoulder of Highway 97.  •An Ephrata man was killed yesterday afternoon on State Route 28 near Winchester when his vehicle collided with a semi truck and trailer th...

•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...