Waterville News

Commodity food distributions are scheduled for the coming week in Chelan and Douglas counties at: 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Monday, Leavenworth Senior Center 9:30 a.m. Monday, Rock Island Center Park 2:30 to 4 p.m. ...

Marsh Haskins, commander of Washington Incident Management Team 4 , talks to people about the fire at the North Central Washington Fairgounds in Waterville Monday night.

Tobias Cron announces the first act at the third annual River Rock Jamboree five miles up Entiat River Road on Saturday afternoon.

TONASKET &#8212 The 1,778-acre Cayuse fire, 12 miles east of Tonasket, was 100 percent contained at 6 p.m. today while fire lines were holding at the Badger Mountain fire late this afternoon.

Tom Porter won't leave his Badger Mountain home, not yet. The Level 3 evacuation notice was still duct-taped to his house under the kitchen window as he and his two teenage daughters watched white plumes of ...

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for portions of the central, east central and north central region of Washington.

James Cope, left, welds one of the three cars that he, his brother, his children and brother-in-law will be entering in the demolition derby in Waterville on Thursday.

WATERVILLE &#8212 Central Washington Grain Growers Inc. allocated a record $2.5 million in dividends to its 1,500 grower members for its fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, mainly because of increasing wheat ...

State and local governments are seeing record pump prices affecting their budgets as well, and are taking action.

Lourinda and Charles Hunter walk home Tuesday after their morning caffeine run to Aut-To Mocha and the Conoco gas station at First Street and Chelan Avenue.

WENATCHEE &#8212 It's candidate filing week in county auditors' offices across the state for local elective offices and at the Secretary of State's Office in Olympia for state and federal positions.

Rehabilitation of a Columbia Basin rail line can proceed now that a governing entity was formed.

WATERVILLE &#8212 Criminal proceedings against a former orchard worker accused of stabbing to death a co-worker have been put on hold by a court commissioner after she found the defendant incompetent to stand ... via Wenatchee World

WENATCHEE &#8212 Wind gusts today in the Wenatchee Valley could reach 40 mph, according to the National Weather Service. via Wenatchee World

Because of UnusualLife.com , I get frequent inquiries from television producers and magazine editors about unusual homes, and 3 of the houses I've written about were featured this week on Evening Magazine . via 360Digest

“There are eight of us and two husbands”

People walk around looking at cars parked at Eastmont Community Park before the start of the 2008 Washington Statee Apple Blossom Festival Classy Chassis Parade. via Wenatchee World

“It will involve a lot of digging in the dirt.”

Matt Rose and his wife, Kelley, hike a section of the Wenatchee foothills trail system near Horse Lake Road on Sunday. via Wenatchee World

Three people were transported to Central Washington Hospital after a car driven by a 17-year-old East Wenatchee teen crashed into a tree early Sunday morning, said Douglas County Sheriff Harvey Gjesdal. via Wenatchee World

WATERVILLE &#8212 A 14-year-old East Wenatchee boy has been sentenced to six days of detention, 12 months of community supervision and 60 hours of community service for making bomb threats at Eastmont Junior ... via Wenatchee World

“If Jack believes that (that Parlette pulled strings), he's absolutely wrong. He doesn't understand how popular and important trails are to fully integrated developing communities such as Wenatchee.”

Orchardists have appealed the Douglas County Commission's March 25 approval of the Rocky Reach trail extension. via Wenatchee World