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An Okanogan hotel has been forced to shut down after sustaining damage during a Tuesday morning fire. Firefighters were dispatched to the Quality Inn & Suites in the single-digit block of Apple Way Road at around 9:30 a.m. where they discovered smoke and flames rising from the top floor and roof of the building. ...

Megabus offers city to city express bus service

Sheriff's deputies say the suspect, Frederick Marshall, entered North Cascades National Bank and approached a teller.

The Washington State Patrol reports 77year-old Bert Bowman of Twisp was traveling westbound on State Route 20 when his 2005 Toyota Tundra left the roadway and rolled multiple times down a 150-foot embankment.

A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a car while walking on U.S. 97 just south of the town of Okanogan Saturday evening. Troopers say the unidentified 33-year-old woman was at fault by walking into the southbound lane before being hit by a car driven by 43-year-old Robert Funston of Wenatchee ...

Residents of East Wenatchee, Omak and Malott were among the 49 graduates of the most recent Washington State Patrol Academy that wrapped up Wednesday. All three, Jared Raber, Lars Weigel and Jessica Adams will be station in the Okanogan detachment for their first assignments ...

Two local movers and shakers from Wenatchee, Shiloh Burgess, and Okanogan, Henry Hix, has been appointed by Governor Jay Inslee to serve on the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Funding Board. Burgess is the executive director of the Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce and Hix is the chief of natural resource enforcement for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation... Read M

USDA Rural Development is sponsoring a free workshop on January 28th from 10:30-1 at the Okanogan USDA Service Center. The workshop will provide an overview of the USDA's Value-Added Producer grant program. "The grant is for agricultural producers to increase the value of the commodities that they're growing by marketing them into other products," said Roni Baer, business programs specia

The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Wenatchee area, Okanogan Valley and Moses Lake area due to high wind gusts. The weather is expected to last throughout Saturday and into the evening. Gusts could reach as high as 40 to 50 mph and mountain ridges will experience gusts of 55 mph or more in the afternoon...

Cascadia Conservation District, Lake Wenatchee Fire and Rescue and Washington's Department of Natural Resources are leading the 100 Acres Healthy Woods Challenge program served as an incentive for landowners to conduct fuels reduction work such as thinning small trees, limbing up large trees and reducing brush...