Wenatchee News

Franklin Rivera Rosas received a letter in March from the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington informing him that he is one of the winners of twenty, $40,000 Costco Diversity Scholarship being offered to incoming UW minority students.

A lawsuit has been filed against the state of Washington on behalf of a Bothell family that was involved in a deadly accident on December 21 while traveling on Highway 2 east of Stevens Pass.

Franklin Rivera Rosas received a letter in March from the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington informing him that he is one of the winners of twenty, $40,000 Costco Diversity Scholarship being offered to incoming UW minority students.

Their mission is literacy. They fund it through book sales. The nonprofit group called Friends of the Mill Creek Library wants people to read, especially children.

The Hurd brothers - Scott, Ross and Doug - ranch near Wenatchee, Wash. Last year, they noticed wolf tracks on their property six miles southwest of downtown Wenatchee.

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.

Prosecutors charged Quincy teens Ruben Cornejo, 16, Miguel Martinez, 18, and Moses Lake teen Missael Herrera, 17, with first-degree robbery in Grant County Superior Court.

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Ahoy, from the Lido Deck of the ocean-bound Star Princess. It's 2100 hours Saturday evening as I write this - I don't recall how many bells that equals - and we're heading east out the Strait of Juan de Fuca past Port Angeles on a blustery, cool evening after a warm and sunny departure day.

It seems unfair to compare anything to Seattle's Pike Place Market, but it's the best thing that comes to mind upon first glimpse of the new Pybus Market in the Columbia River town of Wenatchee, Wash.

After almost two decades, Thorne said she found comfort talking with others who had lost family or friends to suicide in a support group based in Wenatchee.

The south shore's new fiber-optics line is under construction. The poles are up, materials purchased and the cable partially strung.

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.

The HistoryLink staff historian is consumed with the idea of time and how Piggle Wiggle creator Betty McDonald was so prolific.

Hospitals across town and across the state sometimes charge thousands of dollars more for the same treatment, according to figures the government released publicly for the first time Wednesday.

Financial results for the first quarter of 2013 are about $2 million ahead of forecast and the District is on track to end the year with a possible positive net position nearly $6 million ahead of budget, Mark O'Bryan, strategic financial planning director, told Chelan PUD commissioners at Monday's meeting.

Industrial painting bids are now being accepted for coating and related work on the Lake Chelan Dam, in central Washington.

About 4,775 Chelan County PUD customers were without power for about an hour this morning after power was lost on a transmission line serving the Malaga and Squilchuck substation.

WHERE: Wenatchee, Washington. WHY: For the grand opening of Pybus Public Market .

A Lakewood official revealed Monday night the name of at least one potential tenant for the KMart building.