Chelan County News

WENATCHEE &#8212 Both the Chelan County PUD and Douglas County PUD are disputing that the Browns Canyon Fire was started by a downed power line.

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. ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 Lake Chelan Community Hospital is being sued by a woman who says a nurse there fondled her.

EAST WENATCHEE &#8212 The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is looking for any information on vehicles that may have been driving in the area where the Badger Mountain Fire started last week.

Alcoa and Chelan County PUD sign a power agreement Monday that will supply the Wenatchee Works smelter with low-cost PUD power from 2011 to 2028.

WENATCHEE &#8212 A Chelan County judge has denied a motion to throw out breath-test evidence in dozens of drunken driving cases.

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

WENATCHEE &#8212 A Wenatchee man suspected of throwing dead roosters into his neighbor's yard is facing felony animal cruelty charges for cockfighting.

Douglas County Sheriff Harvey Gjesdal took a series of aerial photographs Wednesday during a flight using the Chelan County Sheriff's Department helicopter.

A view of the Badger Mountain fire this afternoon taken during an aerial surveillance trip over the blaze by fire officials to determine whether any structures could be threatened by the fire.

State bridge inspectors say the West Monitor Bridge is in imminent danger of falling down, but Chelan County commissioners &#8212 after hiring a private engineering firm to do its own inspection &#8212 decided ...

Steve Smith, left, has his picture taken by fellow firefighter Tim Timpe, both of Leavenworth and the Chelan County Fire Department, while they wait at their post for the fire to get to them on the hairpin ...

A Wenatchee man charged with driving under the influence registered a blood-alcohol level of .46 percent, nearly six times the legal limit of .08 percent, after being stopped for driving erratically on Highway ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 Smoke from fires in northern California is keeping Wenatchee skies hazy and prompting an air quality advisory.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Just in time for Independence Day, vendors are selling fireworks around the area out of tents, trailers or booths this week.

A handcuffed woman who had been arrested on drug charges and then pressed into working as an informant jumped from a bridge into the Wenatchee River and hasn't been seen since.

Not long after word reached Washington that one of the victims in Sunday's helicopter crash was a resident, people who knew Tom Clausing reached out to share their thoughts.

Firefighters wait for the Chelan County PUD to turn off power to lines near a truck fire Monday morning off Squilchuck Road near Pitcher Canyon Road.

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners Monday agreed to give the U.S. Forest Service nearly 372 acres of Cascade Mountain wilderness in exchange for permanent access to a key mountain snow-measurement ...

WENATCHEE &#8212 Chelan County PUD commissioners plan to send the city of Wenatchee a polite letter with a firm bottom line: Back away from our parks.