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NCWLIFE Evening NewsFebruary 10, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News•The U.S. Army Ranger accused of committing a mass shooting outside a Gorge Amphitheatre music festival will be tried in military court, rather than in Grant County.•One Confluence Health pharmacist went above and beyond for a cancer patient’s treatment last week.•The selection pageant for Apple Blossom 2026 is drawing near, and NCWLIFE’s Eric Granstrom has been getting to know all ten candidates for the Royal Court.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsDecember 16, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A drill that struck a two-inch natural gas line caused a major leak into the basement of a longtime Wenatchee apartment complex. The Vradenburg apartments on downtown Yakima Street had to be evacuated just after 2pm today, along with buildings in the vicinity including the Wenatchee Police Department, and the NCWLIFE studios.•Chelan County residents who’ve suffered losses as a result of the recent windstorm and flood are being asked to report the damage to begin the process for financial assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.•Lighthouse Christian Ministries filed a federal lawsuit against the city of...
2025-12-1730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 25, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Two of the youth victims in Friday night’s deadly street-racing crash in the north end of Wenatchee have been identified.•A deputy’s efforts to stop a possibly impaired driver led to a police chase Sunday night in Chelan.•State inspectors from the Department of Labor and Industries made unannounced visits to nearly 350 work sites across the state, and four 41 unlicensed contractors on the job, including in Chelan County.
2025-11-2630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 24, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A 20-year-old man from Lacey accused of shooting and killing two teenage boys in that city was arrested last week in Wenatchee.•One young occupant in a speeding car is dead and two others seriously injured after a head-on two-vehicle crash Friday evening.•An Oregon firefighter on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire in September has now been charged with involvement in three vehicle thefts, including the stolen Jeep in which he traveled to Wenatchee.
2025-11-2530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 21, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Wenatchee High School students now have another opportunity to earn college credits through the enhanced Accelerated Pathways program.•A judge ruled Thursday that a California man’s statements to highway patrol officers cannot be used as evidence in his trial over a fatal 2022 auto crash.•The Wenatchee City Council approved a $229 million budget for 2026 on Thursday, making it the largest budget the city has adopted.
2025-11-2230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 20, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Wenatchee Valley College President Faimous Harrison will continue in his position for the next three years.•An East Wenatchee man who made recordings of his sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl must serve 23 years for federal child pornography charges.•Grant County sheriff’s deputies were able to recover a valuable lifesaving tool stolen from a rural fire department.
2025-11-2130 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 19, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A Bridgeport woman who allegedly stabbed a clerk in the face turned herself in to Douglas County authorities on Tuesday.•The operator of one of the Wenatchee Valley’s largest senior living facilities has agreed to a $7 million dollar settlement with the state.•A Wenatchee man was sentenced to federal prison after stealing his brother’s identity to gain a passport for himself, and legal status for a Brazilian national he married using his brother’s name.
2025-11-2030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 18, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•About 200 people crowded into a public meeting Monday on the tax increment finance district proposed for the Malaga area.•The city of Quincy will pay $400,000 to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and ensure its industrial wastewater treatment facility complies with its permit, as part of a settlement to resolve a federal Clean Water Act lawsuit.•The Chelan-Douglas Child Services Association, which operates the local Head Start programs, is seeking community support to stay operational next month.
2025-11-1930 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 17, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Police say a four-county narcotics investigation titled “Operation Eastbound and Down” netted four arrests and a large quantity of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs in three cities, including their alleged chief suppliers based in Bridgeport.•The Cascade School District says lead has been detected in several drinking water outlets at different school buildings.•A 16-year-old suspect from Bridgeport has been charged as an adult in last Wednesday’s killing of an East Wenatchee man on Highway 97 north of Orondo.
2025-11-1830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 14, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•The landlord of an East Wenatchee residential complex has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting one of his tenants back in April.•Sheriff’s deputies have released the identity of the man found shot to death Wednesday in a vehicle on the shoulder of Highway 97. •An Ephrata man was killed yesterday afternoon on State Route 28 near Winchester when his vehicle collided with a semi truck and trailer that was attempting to enter the highway.
2025-11-1530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 13, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Authorities in Douglas County say they’ve arrested a 16-year-old male suspect in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a motorist on Highway 97 north of Orondo.•A website formed by an anonymous group of faculty and staff is asking the Wenatchee Valley College Board of Trustees to not renew President Faimous Harrison’s contract.•North Central Washington’s two representatives in Congress cast competing votes on the bill to end the federal government shutdown Wednesday.
2025-11-1430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 12, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Authorities are investigating the case of a motorist found dead this afternoon along Highway 97 in Douglas County.•A 56-year-old man armed with Samurai swords was arrested by the East Cascade SWAT Team on Tuesday after allegedly threatening to QUOTE “blow up” Chelan County sheriff’s deputies.•Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown is demanding the Federal Communications Commission publish a rule to expand emergency alerts to 13 additional languages.
2025-11-1330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 11, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Wenatchee Valley military veterans and their many supporters marched, rode, and drove the route today along Chelan Avenue, in commemoration of Veterans Day.•The Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority plans to hold a public meeting on Monday concerning its proposed Tax Increment Financing district, which it hopes to install in the Malaga area.•Washington’s two U.S. Senators were NOT among the eight who crossed party lines to vote for an end to the 41-day shutdown of the federal government.
2025-11-1230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 10, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Wenatchee Valley firefighters were called to the Columbia Riverside near the foot of Crawford Avenue on Friday for a campfire that grew out of control.•The Wenatchee Valley honors its veterans tomorrow with its annual parade and related events.•Chelan County commissioners awarded thirty-five tourism-related groups a portion of over $220,000 in grants last week.
2025-11-1130 min
Wake Up Wenatchee ValleyNovember 10, 2025 | Wake Up Wenatchee ValleyEric Granstrom has the latest this morning in weather, news and sports. At the bottom of the hour, Executive Director Mike Malmin from Serve Wenatchee stopped by to give NCWLIFE an update on how the organization is doing after a devastating flood at its central location.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 7, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot.•The Wenatchee City Council on Thursday adopted a Criminal Justice Sales Tax, adding a 0.1 percent sales and use tax on business conducted within the city.•A Wenatchee Valley man whose child was exposed to illicit drugs in the family home two years ago was sentenced this week to a year plus one day in jail.
2025-11-0830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 6, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A judge has blocked Chelan County’s attempt to place a moratorium on new tax-increment financing districts.•A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot.•Residents in the Lake Wenatchee fire district have succeeded in a lawsuit to overturn the election that approved a $15 million dollar bond issue over the summer.
2025-11-0730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 5, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•A rural highway collision on Tuesday involved a Moses Lake school bus carrying children, but fortunately did not result in any injuries.•The Grant County Jail in Ephrata has become the site of another inmate death, the second one in less than a year.•Federal prosecutors allege that an Omak man downloaded child sexual abuse material to his smartphone on multiple occasions.
2025-11-0630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNovember 4, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News•Okanogan County Sheriff Paul Budrow says a single-vehicle crash outside the town of Okanogan proved deadly on Saturday. All told, 11 individuals were in the vehicle when it rolled.•Teachers and staff at the tiny Palisades Elementary School in rural Douglas County discovered a burglary Monday morning.•The Chelan-Douglas Action Council says it began to see some increased need last week as SNAP users prepared for the funding to end.
2025-11-0530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News November 3, 2025•A Brewster woman was struck and killed Saturday night on Highway 97, five miles east of her hometown.•Authorities have identified the Wenatchee woman killed last week when her bedroom caught fire.•Community members from the Wenatchee Valley gathered this past weekend at the Wenatchee Valley Museums' Day of the Dead event to celebrate and honor loved ones who’ve died.
2025-11-0430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 24, 2025•The Wenatchee and East Wenatchee Police Departments have disabled a default setting on their Flock Safety surveillance systems after U.S. Border Patrol was able to access their license plate data without their knowledge.•A sheriff’s deputy’s sense of smell led to an arrest Wednesday in what authorities say was a major Douglas County cannabis operation.•Travelers on Interstate 90 will have to divert throughout the weekend as they approach Cle Elum.
2025-10-2530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 23, 2025•Washington State’s top cop is calling for a lower standard to measure intoxication among drivers.•Wildfire teams began their last steps this week to wrap up response to the Lower Sugarloaf and Labor Mountain Fires.•Prosecutors on Wednesday withdrew charges against a Wenatchee man accused of hurling three Molotov cocktails in an attack on his former partner and her current boyfriend.
2025-10-2430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 22, 2025•A Bridgeport woman is dead following a two-car head-on accident Tuesday afternoon on Highway 97, about a mile north of the Beebe Bridge.•The East Wenatchee City Council Tuesday night tabled a resolution to change its banner display policy, following more than an hour of comments from the public in the Eastmont Junior High Auditorium.•An East Wenatchee woman is facing a possible 10-day jail term plus an agreement to repay more than $25,000 after pleading guilty to embezzling from her employer.
2025-10-2330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 21, 2025•A Wenatchee man faces a likely prison term of almost 10 years after pleading guilty this week to sex crimes against a child.•Warnings about a possible gunfire incident Friday led East Wenatchee police to make three arrests.•The city of Quincy’s $15.7 million dollar plan to build a new aquatic center at East Park is beginning to come together.
2025-10-2230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 20, 2025•Two separate accidents on Highway 97 near Chelan, happening about three miles apart, sent a combined 10 people to the hospital this weekend.•An estimated 1,500 people were on hand Saturday for Wenatchee’s second No Kings rally of the year, voicing opposition to Trump administration policies on immigration, the environment, the economy and more.•Okanogan County deputies say a man visiting his student girlfriend at Liberty Bell High School in Winthrop brandished a firearm out of his vehicle window last week.
2025-10-2130 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 17, 2025•Two of the dozen men arrested in the Wenatchee Valley in last summer’s Net Nanny sting operation have been charged federally.•The already-historic Hanford Nuclear Site has made history again, turning the first of its deadly radioactive waste into rods of glass for easier storage.•The Eastmont High School Choir is joining the Apollo Club to perform “Firefighter’s Creed,” a choral piece composed by Central Washington University professor Vijay Singh.
2025-10-1830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 16, 2025•Even as the threat from natural wildfires begins to wind down, prescribed burn operations in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest are set to begin for the season.•Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire issued their final written update today as they put the worst of that wildland blaze behind them.•Fusion energy company Helion has been granted a conditional use permit by Chelan County to begin the next phase of developing the first-ever fusion power plant in Malaga.
2025-10-1730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 15, 2025•Serve Wenatchee Valley is continuing to ask for the community’s help as it works to reopen.•The former Diamond Company warehouse on Columbia Street near Hale Park is now rubble, after a fire early Monday consumed much of its interior.•For the first time in six weeks, there are no wildfire evacuation notices active in Chelan County.
2025-10-1630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 14, 2025•A 42-year-old teacher at a Coulee Dam elementary school was arrested Monday as a part of a police operation targeting alleged online predators.•A teenage Moses Lake driver was injured Monday when she allegedly passed through a stop sign at a highway intersection south of Ephrata and was struck from the side.•Fire crews are gaining a tighter and tighter grip on the two large wildfires burning in the vicinity of Wenatchee.
2025-10-1530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 13, 2025•A warehouse alongside the Wenatchee railroad track was consumed by fire early this morning, and fire officials say they haven’t yet been able to search the structure for anyone who might have been inside.•The cool wet weather and snowfall that closed Blewett Pass for nearly four hours this morning has been good news for those watching the Labor Mountain and Lower Sugarloaf Fires.•The Eastmont parks system is asking for a “levy lid lift” which would allow the parks to take home more property tax revenue, to keep their doors open and their programs operating.
2025-10-1430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 10, 2025•Three Grant County men are jailed on suspicion of drug crimes after a Moses Lake investigation netted about 25 pounds of illegal drugs.•After more than a month of stress for homeowners around the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, all evacuation alerts around that nearly 43,000-acre wildfire have been lifted.•There was no better time than National Hydrogen Day in the middle of Public Power Week for the Douglas County PUD to cut the ribbon on a project years in the making.
2025-10-1130 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 9, 2025•Containment estimates jumped today on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, which has menaced Wenatchee and Upper Valley communities since it was sparked by lightning September 1st.•A Wenatchee man arrested back in April for hosing down a car full of people with a fire extinguisher has entered a probation agreement. •Washington Senator Patty Murray held a press conference Wednesday with residents and small business owners in the state who rely on tax credits through the Affordable Care Act to insure themselves or their employees.
2025-10-1030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 8, 2025•A jury in King County has awarded nearly $17 million to the family of a Wenatchee man who was killed in a 2019 plane crash in Alaska. •Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire say they’re happy with their progress on that 42,000-acre blaze, which is now at 66% containment. •After more than two weeks of detours and closures, drivers can once again use Blewett Pass.
2025-10-0930 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 7, 2025•An early morning flood has temporarily closed the Serve Wenatchee Valley office and Fresh HOPE Market after a waterline broke overnight. •One of the two wildland firefighters accused of traveling to the Lower Sugarloaf fireline in a stolen Jeep has pleaded guilty in the crime.•The Wenatchee School District is preparing to ask voters to approve a $294 million bond to replace Wenatchee High School. District officials say the 1971 building is operating above capacity, and its outdated systems make repairs cost-prohibitive.
2025-10-0830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 6, 2025•The city of Wenatchee has closed one of its two Safe Park locations, for people living out of their vehicles.•A group of voters are asking a judge to overturn the successful bond issue passed in August to support Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue.•Teams controlling the Lower Sugarloaf Fire spent much of Sunday using controlled firing operations to shore up containment.
2025-10-0730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 3, 2025•The weather outlook tonight has crews at the Lower Sugarloaf Fire on high alert.•The Grant County Sheriff’s Office has identified the employee who was allegedly involved in a domestic violence incident this week.•Governor Bob Ferguson has condemned the sudden termination of more than $1.1 billion dollars in federal funding for Washington clean energy projects.
2025-10-0430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 2, 2025•The regional port authority says Chelan County overstepped its bounds in setting a moratorium on the creation of new tax-increment finance districts. That’s the assertion in a new lawsuit, just filed in court by the port district.•The Wenatchee man arrested last year after firing off an AR-15 in a dispute with his family has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.•A Grant County sheriff’s employee involved in a domestic violence incident in Soap Lake has been taken off active duty pending an investigation.
2025-10-0330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News October 1, 2025•The major wildfire that had its origins in Kittitas County is now forcing trail closures and low-level evacuation notices on the outskirts of Wenatchee.•Commissioners for the Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority on Monday authorized the filing of a lawsuit against Chelan County, seeking to restrain the county from enforcing its moratorium on the creation of tax increment areas.•Grant County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 70-year-old Coulee City man Tuesday evening after he allegedly threatened five people with a handgun.
2025-10-0230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 30, 2025•The Washington State Patrol bomb squad disposed of a live hand grenade Monday night, after police say a three-year-old boy discovered it.•An East Wenatchee man was arrested by a police tactical team on Saturday after an eight-year-old child reported an alleged domestic assault. •Grant County firefighters were called out in force on Monday for an above-ground diesel storage tank in flames on a farm property near George.
2025-10-0130 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 29, 2025•A Sunday spot fire traveled beyond the containment efforts on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, sparking a 60-acre brush burn high on Burch Mountain.•Deputies with the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in Wenatchee on Sunday evening after he allegedly stabbed his roommate. •A Wenatchee woman shot to death by her neighbor under mysterious circumstances over the summer appears to have been a victim of mistaken identity.
2025-09-3030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 26, 2025•Forty mile an hour winds pushed North Central Washington’s huge twin wildfires beyond some of their boundaries on Thursday, and put residents in the Wenatchee Valley and Blewett Pass on high alert.•Chelan County Coroner Wayne Harris is responsible for determining the cause and relative time of any unexplained death in his jurisdiction. He says today in Travis Decker’s case, that may prove impossible.•Creighton Hilstad, the owner of the Wenatchee Avenue boutique store Henry Harrow & Co. lost 10 acres of his property to the Lower Sugarloaf fire on Sunday night. He’s one of dozens of landowner...
2025-09-2730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 25, 2025•Travis Caleb Decker, the man accused of kidnapping and murdering his three young daughters, is dead. Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison gave the news in a 4 p.m. press conference today.•Highway 97 over Blewett Pass remains closed as fire crews deal with the troublesome Labor Mountain Fire, the 17,000-acre wildland blaze which now overlaps from Kittitas County into Chelan County.•42-year-old Brandon David Ebe pleaded guilty Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court to 10 counts of possessing sexually explicit depictions of minors.
2025-09-2630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 24, 2025•A filing in the federal criminal case against Travis Decker says the man who allegedly murdered his own children more than three months ago is now dead.•The Chelan County Commissioners chambers was full of community members Tuesday morning for the hearing on the county’s moratorium preventing the creation of Tax increment financing areas.•One of the two wildland firefighters accused of traveling in stolen vehicles on their way to work on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire has been charged with two felonies.
2025-09-2530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 23, 2025•A 41-year-old Chelan resident pleaded guilty yesterday to providing fentanyl to local juveniles in exchange for sex and compromising photographs.•More than 50 people attended a Sept. 18 East Wenatchee City Council workshop for a discussion on the city’s policy on displaying banners around main thoroughfares.•After a 15-day closure, Knapps Hill Tunnel on Highway 97A near Chelan has reopened.
2025-09-2430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 22, 2025•While the Lower Sugarloaf Fire increased in size and prompted new evacuation notices over the weekend, a wildfire burning in Kittitas County crossed into Chelan County, prompting evacuations of its own.•An 18-year-old Wenatchee man was arrested on Saturday after he allegedly stole a vehicle.•A combined grass and structure fire consumed storage outbuildings plus a parked trailer and boat on Friday just outside Leavenworth.
2025-09-2330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsSeptember 19, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News• Human remains found in the Icicle River Valley may be those of Travis Decker, wanted in the June killings of his three daughters.• Wenatchee High School students are adjusting to a new policy that locks away their phones during the school day.• The Wenatchee River Salmon Festival returns this weekend at Rocky Reach Dam and Discovery Center.
2025-09-2030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 18, 2025•Sheriff’s deputies say two firefighters working the Lower Sugarloaf wildfire were involved in the thefts of two vehicles this week, including one that was stolen in Wenatchee and became involved in a police chase.•Customers with the Chelan County Community Development department have been targeted recently by a new email scam.•Chelan County is hosting an open house next week to show off the newly-updated Veterans Services Office on Orondo Avenue.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 17, 2025•A suspected robber who allegedly made two visits to local banks was apprehended Tuesday, and turned out to have a lengthy prior history of bank robbery.•The Northwest Athletic Conference found the Wenatchee Valley College athletics department to have QUOTE “no significant structure, vision or plan” after WVC requested a review by the governing body earlier this year.•Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire changed evacuation levels yesterday, placing new areas under Level 2 notices.
2025-09-1830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 16, 2025•The Chelan County Mountain Rescue team located a deceased hiker last week in the Dragontail Peak area of the Enchantments.•Authorities modified the evacuation levels around the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, now at just over 18,000 acres and burning between the Chumstick and Entiat valleys.•Another move to end COVID-19 vaccinations through the Chelan-Douglas Health District has failed.
2025-09-1730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 15, 2025•The 17,000 acre Lower Sugarloaf Fire is now listed at 11% contained. That’s a major step in the battle against that large fire, burning between the Entiat and Chumstick Valleys.•Construction began today on Valley Mall Parkway in East Wenatchee between Northeast Ninth Street and Highway 28.•The annual Fiestas Mexicanas at Triangle Park on Friday and Saturday drew thousands to celebrate Mexico's Independence Day, despite uncertainty around immigration concerns.
2025-09-1630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 12, 2025•It could have been a tragedy, but police say a quick-thinking semi driver averted disaster on Thursday when his vehicle lost its breaks heading downhill on Grant Road.•The Lower Sugarloaf Fire burning between the Chumstick and Entiat Valleys picked up some energy on Thursday, growing to just over 15,000 acres.•The Wenatchee City Council unanimously adopted a new policy Thursday night, concerning the use of artificial intelligence in city offices.
2025-09-1330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 11, 2025•Chelan County Commissioners on Tuesday heard a grievance brought by the Teamsters Union, which represents supervisors and deputies at the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office.•The growth of large wildfires in Chelan County has led to a local emergency declaration.•A 36-year-old Ephrata man died Wednesday night after he crashed his motorcycle and was run over by a truck on Highway 28 near Soap Lake.
2025-09-1230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 10, 2025•At a community meeting held in Entiat on Tuesday, the team handling the Lower Sugarloaf Fire said they’re continuing to set dozer lines around the 13,814-acre blaze, burning between the Chumstick and Entiat River Valleys.•The attorney for a woman arrested in Chelan on a false drunk-driving charge has won more than $42,000 in a settlement from the Washington State Patrol.•The long-awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed expansion of Mission Ridge is now available, and open for public comment.
2025-09-1130 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 9, 2025• A Moses Lake man who federal prosecutors called the primary gang recruiter for all of Grant County will spend 10 years in prison on firearms charges.•A change in leadership at Wenatchee Valley College has the institution losing down a vice president.•Governor Bob Ferguson visited Wenatchee today for the State Building and Construction Trades Council Convention, held downtown at the Wenatchee Convention Center.
2025-09-1030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsSeptember 8, 2025 | NCWLIFE Evening News• Eastward expansion of the Lower Sugarloaf Fire over the weekend prompted authorities to expand Level 3 evacuation notices to include the entire community of Ardenvoir.• A former custodian at Sterling Junior High in East Wenatchee was charged late last month with sexual offenses against a student there, two years after his initial arrest.• A Moses Lake man has pleaded guilty to child porn possession after his arrest last year.• The Wenatchee River Institute is launching what it calls an “urgent” campaign to save its beloved Traveling Naturalist in the Classroom program.• The City of Wenatchee plans to reopen near...
2025-09-0930 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 5, 2025•Washington’s state health officer signed an order Thursday making anyone in the state eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, without consulting their doctor.•A complex incident team is now in charge of the Lower Sugarloaf Fire in Chelan County as well as the Labor Mountain Fire near Cle Elum.•NCWLIFE met with three FFA participants from the Eastmont School District yesterday as they finished setting up for this weekend’s events at the Cashmere fairgrounds, and heard about all the work it takes for the students to get there.
2025-09-0630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 4, 2025•The Lower Sugarloaf Fire, which began outside the town of Plain due a lightning strike Monday, has quickly grown to more than 6,200 acres and sparked urgent evacuation warnings for residents along Mad River Road in the Entiat Valley.•A structure was lost but firefighters were able to control the spread of a wildland fire that ignited the building today.•Mosquitoes that were captured at Crab Creek near Moses Lake have tested positive for West Nile, a mosquito-borne virus that can cause severe disease in the central nervous system.
2025-09-0530 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 3, 2025•Chelan County Emergency Management has issued several evacuation notices due to the fast-growing Lower Sugarloaf Fire burning east of Plain.•The second of 12 men arrested in a State Patrol sting operation last year for soliciting sex with a minor has been sentenced.•A Washington Elementary School student will serve as one of the state’s Youth Heart with the American Heart Association this school year.
2025-09-0430 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News September 2, 2025•Lightning strikes over the weekend are blamed for half a dozen new fires now burning on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.•A Cashmere woman with a history of serious driving convictions now faces possible assault charges after allegedly driving away from a Chelan County traffic stop.•The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department’s Malaga location is now fully-staffed after the temporary hiatus that came after a loss in funding from the shutdown of Alcoa’s aluminum smelter plant.
2025-09-0330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 29, 2025•All guests and non-essential staff are being evacuated from Holden Village and nearby facilities as the 60-acre Martin Fire continues to burn in the area.•A Level 1 “be ready” fire advisory was issued this morning for Blewett Pass after another wildfire caused by lightning ignited last night.•The Washington State Department of Transportation will close Knapps Hill Tunnel after Labor Day to replace its failing lighting system.
2025-08-3030 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 28, 2025•Two people in a Grant County long-term care facility have died and many more were sickened by a COVID-19 outbreak.•A Level 2 “get ready” evacuation notice was issued this morning for Holden Village, including the Rio Tinto Mine water treatment plant, as the lightning-caused Martin Fire grows.•A tractor driver was injured in a collision on Highway 281 early this morning near Quincy.
2025-08-2930 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 27, 2025•The two occupants of a small plane that crashed into a house during a failed landing attempt at the Cashmere airport say they’re recovering after the ordeal.•Authorities say they’re still investigating a deadly house fire that happened last week in Chelan, and still unable to publicly identify the two people killed.•The driver who bumped a group of police officers with his vehicle while fleeing a traffic stop will serve four months in jail.
2025-08-2830 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 26, 2025•About 100 federal agents are moving through the Icicle River area where the Decker sisters were murdered almost three months ago, carrying out a grid search in pursuit of the father who’s accused of killing them.•Two people were injured in a three-car collision Monday afternoon on Highway 28 near Quincy.•As the Valley Academy of Learning begins its new life inside the former Columbia Elementary School building, the Wenatchee School Board is determining what to do with its former site.
2025-08-2730 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 25, 2025•Last night, the FBI once again began a sweep of the forested area where Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia Decker were found murdered nearly three months ago.•Quincy police say a local resident was already wanted on a warrant when he decided to use a handgun to settle an argument.•The city of Chelan struggled today with a water main break that threatened to deplete its reservoirs.
2025-08-2630 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 22, 2025•A recreational vehicle caught fire yesterday while traveling on Highway 97. That led to a wildfire that had to be controlled before highway traffic could resume.•A second person has now been reported as killed in the house fire at 418 East Woodin Ave. in Chelan early Thursday morning.•The East Wenatchee City Council voted this week to impose a new 0.1% sales tax that takes effect next year.
2025-08-2330 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 21, 2025•Two people were injured and one person was killed in a house fire at 418 East Woodin Avenue in Chelan early this morning.•A homeless Wenatchee man who pleaded guilty to setting fire to a drainage pipe back in February is again charged with arson, this time for allegedly starting a small fire near Hale Park on the Apple Capital Loop Trail.•East Wenatchee police say they’ve arrested a 27-year-old Cashmere man for providing fentanyl that contributed to a woman’s death.
2025-08-2230 min
NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 20, 2025•Police in Mattawa and Moses Lake are seeking public assistance in solving a homicide in a public park.•A three-year-old rescue from the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society is the new narcotics-detecting dog for the Chelan County Regional Justice Center.•The Level 1 evacuation notice on Holden Village was lifted on Tuesday after being in place since early July due to the Pomas Fire.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 19, 2025•A barn was destroyed by a fire Monday morning along Blewett Pass, though firefighters were able to prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby trees.•Four people were injured in a four-vehicle wreck on Highway 2 yesterday afternoon in Tumwater Canyon.•Today marks ten years since the Twisp River Fire, started by tree branches contacting a power line.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 18, 2025•Governor Bob Ferguson has authorized an investigation into the conduct of members on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, including its new vice-chair, former wildlife biologist John Lehmkuhl of Wenatchee.•Three people were injured in a four-car DUI collision Friday afternoon on Highway 97 near Pateros.•A new report from the Washington State Auditor finds that Moses Lake schools did not appropriately track their employees hours and productivity when paying them with federal Title I funding.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 15, 2025•The McNeil Canyon Road Realignment project in Douglas County is currently suspended, due to a union strike in several eastern Washington cities.•The city of Chelan will receive $3 million in state funding secured by 12th district Representative Mike Steele to begin its East Chelan Water Reservoir Project.•Lake Chelan Health is applying for commercial building permits to construct a new administrative building and ambulance garage on its campus.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 14, 2025Lighthouse Christian Ministries has shut down its homeless aid center at 410 South Columbia Street after a hearing officer allowed its conditional use permit to be revoked on Monday.A driver who pleaded guilty to bumping police officers with his vehicle while fleeing a traffic stop is now wanted for sentencing.And a 95-acre brush fire burned up a hillside north of Brewster on Wednesday.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 13, 2025An injured hiker was forced to spend Monday night at the base of Dragontail Peak above Colchuck Lake in the Enchantments before being rescued Tuesday morning.A firefighter in training with the Wenatchee Valley Department has been charged with felony harassment and misdemeanor assault for allegedly making threats to a superior and to a fellow firefighter during a mental health crisis, and for fighting with team members when they came to his home to intervene.And the Wenatchee Valley woke up to moderate air quality this morning as smoke from wildfires on the west side travels east.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 12, 2025Wenatchee Valley Firefighters were kept busy on Monday with not one, but two vehicle fires.Wenatchee Valley College has received a warning from the body that oversees college accreditation, which warns WVC is out of compliance with standards around how it handles complaints and harassment amongst staff.And a 18-year-old suspect has been arrested for allegedly sparking the Balsamroot Fire, a 305-acre wildland blaze that erupted outside Wenatchee on the Fourth of July, 2024.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 11, 2025A structure fire on Lake Wenatchee's north shore this morning spread into surrounding woods, leading to a Level 2 evacuation notice for homes in the area.Travelers should expect single-lane closures and reduced speed limits this week on Highway 2 just west of Leavenworth during the Washington State Department of Transportation’s $2.3 million Slope Stabilization project.And the Chelan School District is asking voters to approve a $73 million school bond that would build a new elementary school and modernize multiple facilities.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 8, 2025A probationary firefighter with the Wenatchee Valley Fire Department is accused of threatening a superior, and attacking fellow firefighters including a battalion commander who arrived at his home to defuse the situation.Chelan and Douglas County came together yesterday for their second annual Purple Heart Day ceremony, recognizing those in the community who’ve received the military honor for suffering harm in the line of duty.And the former director of the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust is suing the nonprofit over her firing last November.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 7, 2025Hikers in the Enchantments attempted Sunday to rescue a drowning man in Colchuck Lake, but authorities say he was beyond resuscitation.Chelan County is calling its first Blake Relief Day a big success after 28 drug possession cases were vacated in district court last month.And the entire town of Electric City in northwest Grant County was placed under a Level 2 evacuation warning on Wednesday, as a brushfire on the southeast side of town grew to roughly 29 acres.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 6, 2025A misfiring handgun may have saved a Moses Lake man from becoming a victim of homicide. Firefighters were able to spare a Leavenworth dining spot from a kitchen fire on Monday night. And voters in the city of Wenatchee appear to have rejected a sales tax that would have doubled the budget for street repair and improvements.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 5, 2025A trailer carrying scrap metal tipped over on the George Sellar Bridge on Monday, causing heavy traffic congestion on the south end of Wenatchee.A 37-year-old Moses Lake man died after reportedly running a stop sign in the Mae Valley area and being struck by another vehicle.The Wenatchee School District will hold a budget hearing on Aug. 12 to take public comments on the upcoming school years' spending plan.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 4, 2025The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that happened Saturday at the Shell gas station in Desert Aire. Also on Saturday, a Moses Lake man died in a two-car crash on Highway 28 near Soap Lake. Then on Sunday, four homes were destroyed in the Brooks Tract Fire near Omak.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News August 1, 2025East Wenatchee police responding to a report of gunshots Thursday night found a bullet-riddled pickup truck, apparently damaged in an exchange of gunfire. The two occupants of a Cessna that crashed into a home Wednesday near the Cashmere Airport are now in stable condition and a 550 acre wildfire in Okanogan County sparked Level 3 evacuations yesterday.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 31, 2025A small plane apparently went off the end of the runway Wednesday night at the Cashmere-Dryden Airport, crashing into the roof of a house nearby. A specialized search team walked and swam roughly two miles of upper Icicle Creek yesterday in the hunt for wanted murder suspect Travis Decker and Police in Quincy are seeking the public’s help to solve a John Doe case dating back at least 16 years.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 30, 2025Lighthouse Christian Ministries will appeal to the Wenatchee Hearings Examiner in early August in hopes of staying open. A 26 year old man was arrested for DUI early this morning in Wenatchee after running his vehicle off the roadway and into a fire hydrant and Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison is encouraging hikers to exercise caution after Search and Rescue personnel performed two wilderness evacuations this past weekend.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 29, 2025One of the 12 men arrested in last year’s Net Nanny operation targeting suspected sex offenders has entered a plea in federal court. Near Rock Island yesterday, an allegedly impaired driver is suspected of causing a collision with a semi-truck at the intersection of Highway 28 and Batterman Road and a state police commission is still reviewing the steps Douglas County Sheriff Kevin Morris took after shooting a cougar on his property in Idaho.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 28, 2025The discovery of human remains at a Spokane homeless encampment have put an end to a three-year Okanogan County manhunt. Police are investigating an apparent shooting that occurred last night in Douglas County and the city of East Wenatchee hopes a proposed public safety sales tax can reinforce its police budgets.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 25, 2025Two members of a Wenatchee Valley family have been touched by fatal violence at the Arizona vacation home they owned. A 26-year-old East Wenatchee man was arrested early Friday morning after an hours-long standoff with police. And a former East Wenatchee Water District employee was awarded $5 million on Thursday by a federal jury.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 24, 2025A small group of demonstrators who use the Social Security system organized a gathering today outside the Wenatchee office, complaining of long wait times for service, and the possible impact of future cuts. As Wenatchee’s city administrator prepares to leave her job, the city is debating how to recategorize the job itself. And a former police chief of Moses Lake has died.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 23, 2025A Moses Lake man who opened fire on pursuing deputies three years ago will serve more than 37 years for the crime. Landlords and tenants now know the upper ceiling for any rent increase next year. And it’s now been 51 days since the Decker sisters — Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia – were found murdered in the Upper Icicle Valley. NCWLIFE spoke last week with Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison, whose deputies found the Wenatchee girls’ bodies, and who have been carrying out the investigation ever since.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 22, 2025Neither driver was injured in a T-bone, rollover collision at the intersection of Okanogan Avenue and Spokane Street. Police are on the lookout for a traffic violator who eluded officers on Monday evening by driving across a pedestrian bridge and hiding in the Horan Natural Area. And Monday’s rainstorm over the Pomas Fire proved to be good news for firefighters.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 21, 2025A fatal shooting Sunday night in Ephrata left one man dead and led to two arrests. A motorcyclist from East Wenatchee was killed Saturday in a collision on Highway 153 outside Pateros. And the Wenatchee School District is facing what it calls a QUOTE “significant and immediate challenge” as the U.S. Department of Education withholds billions in federal funding for schools nationwide.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 18, 2025The ringleader of a drug trafficking organization that operated in Okanogan County and throughout eastern Washington has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. An account manager for an East Wenatchee social services agency is accused of embezzling nearly $20,000 from its vulnerable adult clients. And Rock Island resident Lorene Vehrs will celebrate her 105th birthday this Sunday.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 17, 2025Police have released more details surrounding the recent five-car collision that injured Pioneer Middle School PE teacher Brian Vickery. Wenatchee Valley firefighters discovered flames creeping between two floors of a commercial building early Wednesday. And Fire crews have now dumped about 1.6 million gallons of water on the Pomas Fire, burning since June 13th in the Glacier Peak Wilderness west of Entiat.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 16, 2025A brushfire visible from around the valley broke out about 12:30 this afternoon, burning near the 3300 block of the Eastmont Avenue Extension. Three juveniles were injured in a single-car crash near George on Tuesday after a 17-year-old driver fell asleep at the wheel. And two drivers were issued citations in a two-car rollover wreck near the intersection of South Wenatchee Avenue and South Viewdale Street yesterday.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 15, 2025Wenatchee police say a missing Wenatchee man last seen in the area of Saddle Rock Trailhead has been found dead after a brief search. Multiple agencies became involved in a rescue after a lone climber fell while ascending a remote mountain on Monday. And a brushfire near Omak on Monday became the latest fire to require a statewide mobilization for first responders.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 14, 2025A local Eastmont High School student has gone viral on the popular video platform, TikTok, for offering free haircuts in the community. Trial is due to start next week in a former utility inspector’s lawsuit against the East Wenatchee Water District. And about 77 street, road and sidewalk improvements are scheduled as part of the city of Wenatchee six-year transportation plan, approved by the city council Thursday night.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 11, 2025The grandfather of Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia Decker extended his family’s thanks to the Wenatchee community Thursday, in the wake of the girls’ murder last month. And students and community members gathered today at Pioneer Middle School to sign a banner in support of PE teacher Brian Vickery, who’s recovering from injuries sustained in a car crash on July 3rd.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 10, 2025A Wenatchee man arrested back in April for imprisoning and beating his disabled spouse was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison. A reported sighting of wanted murder suspect Travis Decker in the Sawtooth National Forest of Idaho has come up empty. And Search warrants served by Moses Lake Police as part of ongoing drug investigations yielded two arrests on Tuesday.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 9, 2025A motorist is dead after her SUV traveled off a cliff on the North Cascades Highway. Hospital leaders and local activists spoke out Tuesday against scheduled cuts to Medicaid that could force several North Central Washington medical centers to close. And a woman sustained injuries yesterday after crashing her car into a mailbox. She then allegedly overcorrected and collided with a large boulder in a nearby yard, tipping her vehicle onto its side.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 8, 2025Chelan County commissioners got a play-by-play Monday of the early days of the Pomas Fire, the 2,900-acre wildfire now burning in the Glacier Peak Wilderness west of Entiat. Wenatchee Mayor Mike Poirier has responded to the potential impacts that two city projects may have on EZ’s Burger Deluxe. And Chelan County courts are working to clear out criminal drug cases that have been invalidated by the Blake decision.
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NCWLIFE Evening NewsNCWLIFE Evening News July 7, 2025The hunt for accused child murderer Travis Decker heated up this weekend in a neighboring state. Wenatchee Valley firefighters were busy Independence Day evening with not one, but two brush fires in Rock Island, both ignited by fireworks. And a Yakima man is dead after his pickup truck apparently slid into an irrigation canal southeast of Ephrata.
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