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The second phase of a project that is making improvements to just over five miles of State Route 17 (SR-17) in Moses Lake began today (Wednesday, May 8). The project's first leg focused on upgrading pedestrian safety, with the installation of new curb ramps, signals, and push-button crosswalk detection systems...

The utility is getting permits to build a public road through to the site that'll provide a link from 5th Street to the parking lot behind the Coast Hotel and Columbia Street.

A much-traveled U.S. Forest Service road in Chelan County will soon reopen for the spring season. Eightmile Road provides visitors with access to several trailheads in the popular Enchanments area near Leavenworth. It will remain closed until at least the end of the month while crews conduct necessary maintenance...

Over 25 volunteers with the American Red Cross were joined by Smokey Bear and others to share information about wildfire preparedness in the Cle Elum area on Saturday. The U.S. Forest Service, Washington Department of Natural Resources, and South Cle Elum Fire Department also took part in the event along with Sparky the Fire Dog...

Manson, Washington's Apple Blossom Festival is one year younger than Wenatchee's Washington State Apple Blossom Festival but no less a community celebration. The event will be enjoy summer like weather and falls on Mother's Day weekend so a large turnout is expected.

Six fire engines and 12 crew members were sent to the fire at 49 Skeels Road which had heavy smoke and flames.

Ride with HOG's Columbia River chapter on a scenic journey from Wenatchee to Oroville for a great cause.

Jimmy Sherrell, who runs Midland Trucking in Wenatchee, is among the district 2 candidates

The $2 million renovation of the Wenatchee City pool is complete and a Re-opening ceremony is planned to celebrate the project.

Officers say a passerby alerted them to what turned out to be a 40-millimeter World War II vintage shell along with a glove sitting on the ground