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The number of calls for service, arrests and referrals for prosecution are down significantly in the Eastmont School District. The school board saw a report card on School Resource Officer (SRO) activity at it's June meeting. While physical arrests were flat this year compared to the prior year, the number of cases referred for prosecution were down by roughly two-thirds Supt...

An East Wenatchee man received a two-and-a-half year prison sentence Thursday for possessing a modified handgun. Court records show 20-year-old Abraham Aguliar-Leon pled guilty in March to illegal possession of a machine gun after Chelan County Sheriff's deputies arrested him last July...

A plane crashed at Pangborn Memorial Airport Friday afternoon. Wenatchee Valley Fire Chief Brian Brett says crews responded to a report of a plane crash at approximately 2:07 p.m. They arrived to find a cessna with two adults and two children on board...

The City of East Wenatchee and Chelan-Douglas Port Authority are celebrating the region's aviation legacy at the Pangborn Festival of Flight, June 21st. The airport is named after and the Festival recognizes Clyde Pangborn, who with Hugh Herndon,  belly landed a Bellanca Skyrocket above Fancher Heights in East Wenatchee in 1931 after completing the first non-stop trans-pacific flight from Misawa,

The South Wenatchee Pedestrian project shutting down the W.T. Clark Pipeline bridge begins today. The project will close the bridge for approximately 17 months until Nov. 2026. One pedestrian bridge in East Wenatchee over Sunset Highway will connect back down to Ninth Street near Valley Mall Parkway...

U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited the proposed Wenatchi Landing development site in East Wenatchee Wednesday. Douglas County commissioners and project leaders are seeking nearly $52 million in federal investment for an interchange at US Highway 2 and 97 at 35th Street with a roundabout...

Police release the name of a primary suspect from a shooting in East Wenatchee Friday night. East Wenatchee police responded at approximately 7:45 p.m. to reports of shots fired at the intersection of Third Street Northeast and North Georgia Avenue...

Wenatchee Valley residents will have more options for walk-in medical care in June. Columbia Valley Community Health says they are re-opening the East Wenatchee Express Care clinic Monday, June 2. This follows the completion of the CVCH East Wenatchee Healthcare Campus...

Authorities took a man with a felony warrant into custody after he failed to register as a sex offender. Chelan County Sheriff Ryan Moody says the Columbia River Drug Task Force arrested 40-year-old Joshua Clark Thursday, April 24 near the Sunset Motor Inn in East Wenatchee...

Traffic on the Eastmont Extension in East Wenatchee was snarled by a vehicle fire on Tuesday afternoon. Wenatchee Valley Fire Chief Brian Brett says crews were dispatched to the blaze at just before 3 p.m. "Some people were driving in a Subaru Outback when they noticed it had caught on fire...