Okanogan County News

By Dee Camp Chronicle staff OKANOGAN - Patrick Plumb leads Joyce Fancher in the race for Tonasket mayor and incumbent Lee Webster is ahead of challenger David Smith in the contest for Brewster mayor, according to election night returns.

By Al Camp Chronicle staff OMAK - Colville Tribal Police are searching for a 21-eyar-old Omak man suspected to have shot another man Nov.

By Dee Camp Chronicle staff OKANOGAN - Wilford Schreckengast will become a member of the Okanogan High School class of 1948 when he picks up his diploma next Tuesday during a Veterans Day ceremony.

5 on the 600 block of Eighth Avenue. Details are sketchy since the Colville Business Council has yet to approve a press release on the shooting, which occurred on the reservation.

By Al Camp Chronicle staff OKANOGAN - A Douglas County Sheriff's Office robotic camera found a 39-year-old Okanogan man died earlier this morning from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

By Brenda Starkey Chronicle staff REPUBLIC - Ferry County voters favor a non-motorized rail trail, according to preliminary counts of a non-binding advisory measure that appeared on the Nov.

The race for mayor of Twisp is in a dead heat after early counting Tuesday night .

Deputies in Okanogan County are involved in a standoff with a suicidal man armed with a handgun who threatened to kill his wife and then himself.

The title of this post is the headline of this commentary coming from The Spokesman Review in reaction to an intriguingdebate over a potential capital case in Washington.

A man was arrested Thursday night and booked into the Skagit County Jail on investigation of murder in the case of a missing Anacortes man who hasn't been seen since Wednesday morning.

Washington state and Okanogan County will share the $100,000 bail that was forfeited when the man suspected of killing well-known Black Diamond sound engineer Tom Pfaeffle failed to show up for a court hearing last month, according to The Wenatchee World.

A passenger was injured when an SUV went off state Highway 20 just inside Okanogan County at 10:40 a.m. Oct.

The Okanogan County Tourism Council's annual banquet and workshop will be Wednesday, Nov.

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission announced its 2009-2010 winter schedule, with parks in Okanogan and Ferry counties scheduled to close soon for the winter.

Two people died in Okanogan County during the inaugural weekend of the general firearms deer hunting season.

Posted: Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 - 9:31 p.m. PDT Sheriff's vehicles get a new look OKANOGAN - The Okanogan County Sheriff's Office has a new look for its vehicles, but budget constraints mean some deputies will drive the old-look vehicles for a while longer.

The accused murderer of a local sound engineer has been on the lam for over a month.

General rifle season for deer hunters begins Oct. 17 and Okanogan County public land management agencies are hosting their annual hunter information booths in Omak and Twisp.

Where is fugitive Kino Gomez, and is he dead or alive? "They're looking everywhere, but there's no sign of him," says Twisp Police spokesperson Vicki Hallowell, whose department is the lead agency in the hunt for the former King County road engineer accused of the July 17 murder of Seattle music producer and sound engineer Tom Pfaeffle, who had ...

On Friday mornings, the scene in Okanogan County Superior Court is anything but typical.