Malaga News

A helicopter drops water Thursday near a hand crew at the north end of the Badger Mountain Fire.

A wayward moose wanders through the parking lot of the Wenatchee Valley Mall in East Wenatchee Friday.

Efrain Ferreira picks a light crop of cherries this morning in an East Wenatchee orchard operated by Jesus Zacarias.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Bus fare increases may be coming, perhaps as soon as November. The Link Transit board of directors opened up the topic of a fare increase at Tuesday's board meeting.

The Pangborn Cherry Harvest Camp opens Monday for its last season. The county and state are reaching the end of a five-year contract.

MALAGA &#8212 Saint Laurent Winery will appeal a May 21 hearing examiner ruling that it must close its tasting room because its hilltop site is no longer a winery.

WENATCHEE &#8212 State Department of Transportation engineers will be on hand from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Wenatchee Community Center to talk to the public about upcoming work aimed at easing congestion on ...

Susan Diane Castro of Tonasket has been spending every Memorial Day for as long as she can remember putting flowers at Wenatchee City Cemetery.

Saint Laurent Estate Winery is new to me, but if its wines are any indication, it will become an old friend.

“I was definitely taken by surprise when I found out”

WENATCHEE &#8212 The owner of the Ninth Street Trailer Park, land that's a key part of Wenatchee's riverfront makeover, appears to be selling the property. via Wenatchee World

A Washington State Patrol spokesman, Rich Magnusson, says road rage may have been the motive for a shooting on I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

An apparent case of road rage led to a shooting late Sunday on Interstate 90, west of Ellensburg, in which a 3-year-old girl sustained minor cuts from flying glass. via Yakima Herald-Republic

MALAGA, Wash.- Right now fire crews in Malaga, Washington, near Wenatchee, are battling a 100-acre wildfire. via KHQ-TV Spokane

WENATCHEE &#8212 A 32-year-old Malaga woman who police say posed as a nurse practitioner and nurse to obtain 23 prescriptions for Vicodin pleaded guilty Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court to 10 counts of ... via Wenatchee World

Apple Blossom Festival award winners announced EAST WENATCHEE &#8212 The top award at this year's Les Schwab Classy Chassis Parade and Car Show went to Dave Poirier of Malaga. via Wenatchee World

“This girl always has everything together; she has not messed up once”

While gathering flowers for a floral class, Apple Blossom Queen Justine Vanderpool smells some blooms she picked from a flowering tree at her school, Eastmont High School. via Wenatchee World

“The reason he decided to do it is because he's 68 years old and he decided he needed to kick back”

WENATCHEE &#8212 One of the major players in the city's multi-million dollar riverfront makeover wants to sell 4.7 acres that had been earmarked for condominiums. via Wenatchee World

“We have paramedics on hand, but I hope it doesn't come to that.”

Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum, left, along with John Brett, an employee of Chelan/Douglas County Volunteer Attorneys, walks past emergency medical technicians during the "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" march. via Wenatchee World

Fire destroyed a mobile home about eight miles southeast of Malaga on Sunday morning. via Wenatchee World

“They used to meet at the Columbia Hotel, and I walked by there every day to go to the bank”

Bob Mitchell of East Wenatchee and other members of the Heritage Society of the Mid-Columbia watch a slide show on the Alaska-Canadian Highway. via Wenatchee World