Okanogan News

On the heels of the third-worst fire season on record, federal officials announced Monday they'll have fewer firefighting resources this summer, despite forecasts for another severe year in many parts of the West.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. BOISE - Idaho's potato industry is gazing north of the U.S. border to a tiny Canadian apple breeder for a sign of how the public may embrace a genetically modified potato proposed for commercialization by the J.R. Simplot Co.

Montana Dutton, operator of the Okanogan Cannabis Collective, tends young plants in a greenhouse.

A 17-acre prescribed burn is planned today, May 9, in the Squaw Creek/Black Canyon area west of town.

A federal judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain cancer and told he had just a few months to live.

For Manson, the program got its start May 6, 1988. Since 1991, Kathleen Miller has been its director, and each Friday they meet and eat at the North Shore Bible Church in Mason.

Okanogan River in Washington , which the National Weather Service says is at risk of flooding due to snow melt.

The National Weather Service in Spokane says the Okanogan River is expected to crest Sunday about two feet over flood stage, which will flood some fields and pastures between Okanogan and Oroville.

After more than 17 years of lawsuits and appeals over plans for a new transmission line in the Methow Valley, the Okanogan County PUD has jumped one more hurdle.

The Okanagan National Alliance Chiefs Executive Council quarterly meeting will be hosted by the Colville Confederated Tribes from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 8 at the Omak Longhouse, 25 Mission Road.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The National Weather Service today is warning that a week of warm and sunny weather could trigger rapid rises on rivers and streams in the Inland Northwest.

The weather is going to be stellar throughout the region this weekend, so pack the sunscreen if you plan to fish the lakes that are now open for trout fishing.

Cinco de Mayo celebrations are planned a day early - on May 4 - in Omak and Republic.

Strong winds spread a pickup truck fire to another vehicle and then into items in a yard and the nearby Omak Wood Products log yard the afternoon of April 27.

With the North Cascades Highway opened by Washington State Department of Transportation crews this month well in advance of the statewide opening day of spring fishing, the Okanogan's lucrative trout waters are as close time-wise as they'll get to Bellingham.

As recently as 1989, the image of a man carrying two shopping bags and defying the tanks of Tiananmen Square became, almost at once, a global symbol of courage.

As the new month rolls around in a few days, there will be some new regulation changes happening for salmon or steelhead fisheries in the Columbia River and most of its tributaries below Chief Joseph Dam.

The 34th annual Nespelem Junior Rodeo returns April 26-28 at the rodeo grounds on lower Columbia River Road.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A man is being charged with first-degree murder in Okanogan County after a shooting and stabbing over a stolen clutch.

OKANOGAN, Wash. - The Okanogan County sheriff's office has a suspect in custody in the shooting and stabbing death of a man in the community of Riverside.