NCWLIFE Evening News

•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.

•The regional port authority says Chelan County overstepped its bounds in setting a moratorium on the creation of new tax-increment finance districts. That’s the assertion in a new lawsuit, just filed in court by the port district. •The Wenatchee man arrested last year after firing off an AR-15 in a dispute with his family has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. •A Grant County sheriff’s employee inv...

•The major wildfire that had its origins in Kittitas County is now forcing trail closures and low-level evacuation notices on the outskirts of Wenatchee. •Commissioners for the Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority on Monday authorized the filing of a lawsuit against Chelan County, seeking to restrain the county from enforcing its moratorium on the creation of tax increment areas. •Grant County s...

•The Washington State Patrol bomb squad disposed of a live hand grenade Monday night, after police say a three-year-old boy discovered it. •An East Wenatchee man was arrested by a police tactical team on Saturday after an eight-year-old child reported an alleged domestic assault.  •Grant County firefighters were called out in force on Monday for an above-ground diesel storage tank in flames on a f...

•A Sunday spot fire traveled beyond the containment efforts on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, sparking a 60-acre brush burn high on Burch Mountain. •Deputies with the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in Wenatchee on Sunday evening after he allegedly stabbed his roommate.  •A Wenatchee woman shot to death by her neighbor under mysterious circumstances over the summer appears to have been a...

•Forty mile an hour winds pushed North Central Washington’s huge twin wildfires beyond some of their boundaries on Thursday, and put residents in the Wenatchee Valley and Blewett Pass on high alert. •Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris is responsible for determining the cause and relative time of any unexplained death in his jurisdiction. He says today in Travis Decker’s case, that may prove imposs...

•Travis Caleb Decker, the man accused of kidnapping and murdering his three young daughters, is dead. Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison gave the news in a 4 p.m. press conference today. •Highway 97 over Blewett Pass remains closed as fire crews deal with the troublesome Labor Mountain Fire, the 17,000-acre wildland blaze which now overlaps from Kittitas County into Chelan County. •42-year-old Br...

•A filing in the federal criminal case against Travis Decker says the man who allegedly murdered his own children more than three months ago is now dead. •The Chelan County Commissioners chambers was full of community members Tuesday morning for the hearing on the county’s moratorium preventing the creation of Tax increment financing areas. •One of the two wildland firefighters accused of travelin...

•A 41-year-old Chelan resident pleaded guilty yesterday to providing fentanyl to local juveniles in exchange for sex and compromising photographs. •More than 50 people attended a Sept. 18 East Wenatchee City Council workshop for a discussion on the city’s policy on displaying banners around main thoroughfares. •After a 15-day closure, Knapps Hill Tunnel on Highway 97A near Chelan has reopened.

•While the Lower Sugarloaf Fire increased in size and prompted new evacuation notices over the weekend, a wildfire burning in Kittitas County crossed into Chelan County, prompting evacuations of its own. •An 18-year-old Wenatchee man was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly stole a vehicle. •A combined grass and structure fire consumed storage outbuildings plus a parked trailer and boat on Frid...

• Human remains found in the Icicle River Valley may be those of Travis Decker, wanted in the June killings of his three daughters. • Wenatchee High School students are adjusting to a new policy that locks away their phones during the school day. • The Wenatchee River Salmon Festival returns this weekend at Rocky Reach Dam and Discovery Center.

•Sheriff’s deputies say two firefighters working the Lower Sugarloaf wildfire were involved in the thefts of two vehicles this week, including one that was stolen in Wenatchee and became involved in a police chase. •Customers with the Chelan County Community Development department have been targeted recently by a new email scam. •Chelan County is hosting an open house next week to show off the new...

•A suspected robber who allegedly made two visits to local banks was apprehended Tuesday, and turned out to have a lengthy prior history of bank robbery. •The Northwest Athletic Conference found the Wenatchee Valley College athletics department to have QUOTE “no significant structure, vision or plan” after WVC requested a review by the governing body earlier this year. •Managers on the Lower Sugar...

•The Chelan County Mountain Rescue team located a deceased hiker last week in the Dragontail Peak area of the Enchantments. •Authorities modified the evacuation levels around the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, now at just over 18,000 acres and burning between the Chumstick and Entiat valleys. •Another move to end COVID-19 vaccinations through the Chelan-Douglas Health District has failed.

•The 17,000 acre Lower Sugarloaf Fire is now listed at 11% contained. That’s a major step in the battle against that large fire, burning between the Entiat and Chumstick Valleys. •Construction began today on Valley Mall Parkway in East Wenatchee between Northeast Ninth Street and Highway 28. •The annual Fiestas Mexicanas at Triangle Park on Friday and Saturday drew thousands to celebrate Mexico's...

•It could have been a tragedy, but police say a quick-thinking semi driver averted disaster on Thursday when his vehicle lost its breaks heading downhill on Grant Road. •The Lower Sugarloaf Fire burning between the Chumstick and Entiat Valleys picked up some energy on Thursday, growing to just over 15,000 acres. •The Wenatchee City Council unanimously adopted a new policy Thursday night, concernin...

•Chelan County Commissioners on Tuesday heard a grievance brought by the Teamsters Union, which represents supervisors and deputies at the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office. •The growth of large wildfires in Chelan County has led to a local emergency declaration. •A 36-year-old Ephrata man died Wednesday night after he crashed his motorcycle and was run over by a truck on Highway 28 near Soap Lake.

•At a community meeting held in Entiat on Tuesday, the team handling the Lower Sugarloaf Fire said they’re continuing to set dozer lines around the 13,814-acre blaze, burning between the Chumstick and Entiat River Valleys. •The attorney for a woman arrested in Chelan on a false drunk-driving charge has won more than $42,000 in a settlement from the Washington State Patrol. •The long-awaited Draft...

• A Moses Lake man who federal prosecutors called the primary gang recruiter for all of Grant County will spend 10 years in prison on firearms charges. •A change in leadership at Wenatchee Valley College has the institution losing down a vice president. •Governor Bob Ferguson visited Wenatchee today for the State Building and Construction Trades Council Convention, held downtown at the Wenatchee C...

• Eastward expansion of the Lower Sugarloaf Fire over the weekend prompted authorities to expand Level 3 evacuation notices to include the entire community of Ardenvoir. • A former custodian at Sterling Junior High in East Wenatchee was charged late last month with sexual offenses against a student there, two years after his initial arrest. • A Moses Lake man has pleaded guilty to child porn posse...