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An Internet Crimes Against Children investigation has landed a 52-year-old Grant County man in jail. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says Jeremy B. Burge of Ephrata was taken into custody during the service of a search warrant at his residence in the 2400 block of Basin Street Southwest on Wednesday morning...

Two people are in jail after police say they stole gasoline from a farm near Ephrata over the weekend. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says it happened at a property near Road 20.5 Northwest and Johnson Road just before 1 p.m. on Sunday...

As many as eight people are behind bars after police raided two illegal marijuana grow sites in Grant County last last week. The busts happened Thursday (Aug. 1) when about 40 law enforcement officers served search warrants on the two connected sites near Road C Northeast and Road 11 Northeast just south of Ephrata...

The Washington Association of Sheriffs & Police Chiefs (WASPC) has released its annual report on crime in Washington State, and the numbers statewide are mostly down. Although Chelan County saw a 6.2% increase in overall reported crimes from 2022 to 2023, neighboring Douglas County's stats were down 17%, and Grant County's plummeted by 20.5%....

The heat will soon be on for North Central Washington and the Columbia Basin. Temperatures in the region are expected to surge into triple digits by Friday with record-tying or -breaking highs possible by early next week. Meteorologist Greg Koch with the National Weather Service (NWS) Office in Spokane says the extreme temperatures will be created by an air mass that's currently bringing scorching

Deputies say the fire originated at the Ephrata Gun Range and spread eastward to the edge of SR17 by 6pm.

A man and a dog are both recovering after being shot during an altercation near Soap Lake early Monday. Grant County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a disturbance call at around 3:40 a.m. in a remote area off Road 16.2 Northeast. Chief Deputy Josh Sainsbury says that's where 42-year-old Justin Hahnlen confronted 39-year-old Nicholas Brown of Ephrata for trespassing on his property and then

Ephrata Police say a 40-year-old woman was flown to a hospital with a broken arm and other injuries while a 14-year-old girl was taken to a local hospital.

Two people are dead following a two-vehicle accident in Grant County on Thursday morning. The Washington State Patrol reports the wreck occurred just before 4 a.m. at the junction of State Routes 17 and 282 (SR-282) south of Ephrata when an eastbound vehicle crossed the centerline and struck a westbound vehicle head on...

A Grant County man is in jail after police say he threatened to blow up his home during a domestic dispute on Sunday night. Police responded to a residence in the 40 block of K Street Northeast at around 9:30 p.m. after the estranged wife of 40-year-old Nicholas Svetich called 9-1-1 claiming he'd assaulted her...