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5/27/20 11:30 a.m. Update: The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office has identified the man they are looking for in the Blewett Pass/Mineral Springs area as 24-year-old Jorge O. Alcantara-Gonzalez. He is considered possibly armed and dangerous ...

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Department says they are conducting an active manhunt in the Blewett Pass/Mineral Springs area for a suspect they consider potentially armed and dangerous. Deputies have not provided the name of the suspect, but says they were in possession of the vehicle of a missing Kent man, 41-year-old Ian Eckles ...

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says they have made two arrests in relation to a body found April 25th in a creek along Smithson Road north of Ellensburg. 20-year-old Raylin D. James and 20-year-old Joshua Q. Gerald were taken into custody without incident ...

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says the body of a man was found in a creek off Smithson Road Saturday. They say the man is 20-year-old Leroy Scott from Louisiana. The initial investigation says Scott has ties to Washington through Fort Lewis, but was not employed by the military ...

Three Yakima residents survived after the small plane they were in clipped a hillside and flipped, landing on its top south of Ellensburg Sunday. The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says a Cessna, flown by 39-year-old Josh Soracco was attempting a low approach flyover of the runway when it failed to gain enough altitude and struck the hillside ...

29-year-old Thomas R. Conger of Ellensburg died when his truck was hit by a semi after he ran a stop sign west of Ellensburg Sunday afternoon. The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office says Conger was driving southbound on Cove Road shortly after 3:00 when he ran the stop sign at Hanson Road and was struck by the semi driven by a Moses Lake man...

Kittitas County Sheriff's deputies and Search and Rescue rescued an injured hiker near Mirror Lake Wednesday. 46-year-old Greg Wright slipped on an icy patch of the trail and possibly suffered a broken ankle while he was on the Pacific Coast Trail near Hyak Wednesday...

Kittitas County Sheriff Gene Dana announced his retirement Thursday, effective at the end of October. Sheriff Dana has been in law enforcement for 46 years, starting in the Washington State Patrol in 1974 as a trooper in King County. He was first elected as Kittitas County Sheriff in 1999 and has been re-elected five times since...

From a press release - Sydney Darnell was taken off life support Monday the 28th and death was pronounced at 9:30 AM by Harborview physicians. On 5/27/2018 at 12:32 PM Kittitas County Deputies and Upper County Medical personnel responded to Sandy Ridge Road for a report of a 12 year old who had been accidentally shot in the head while target practicing...