•The Washington State Department of Transportation says the Tumwater Canyon segment of Highway 2 is expected to reopen in mid-February, a month earlier than expected.
•An injured construction worker on the site of the Majestic Apartment project in downtown Wenatchee was rescued via a ladder truck yesterday afternoon.
•A man who ventured onto thin ice this week at Fish Lake had a stroke of luck…
•Go Hawks!

•Students from the Eastmont School District left school for a demonstration today against U.S. immigration policy.
•Douglas County has launched an agricultural land analysis to evaluate its agricultural resource lands.
•A man facing federal charges from local bank robberies in September is now charged in local court as well.

•Chelan County has asked Gov. Bob Ferguson to seek federal help for engineering and construction assistance in Stehekin.
•Wenatchee police are searching for a woman missing since mid-January.
•A transit bus was T-boned Tuesday by a pickup driver just outside Moses Lake.

•The man found guilty of shooting his former girlfriend to death on Badger Mountain Road three years ago appeared from prison by video yesterday to have two of his convictions vacated.
•Roughly 188,000 people are now in line for a share of a $1.3 million dollar settlement from the Chelan-Douglas Health District.
•Douglas and Grant County sheriff’s deputies cooperated Monday to arrest two people suspected of breaking into a property in the Palisades area.

•An Okanogan County man charged with the murder of his infant daughter was arrested Friday in Iowa.
•A 49-year-old Chelan woman is dead after being struck by a pickup truck while she was walking on Highway 97 near Pateros.
•The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority says Dollar General has backed out of talks to build a retail development at the port’s Cashmere Mill District.

•Sheriff's Emergency Management coordinator Sgt. Jason Reinfeld said the body of 33-year-old David Gimlett was found Thursday in Peshastin Creek by a Chelan County Volunteer Search and Rescue team member.
•Chelan County sheriff’s deputies and partner agencies were involved in a dramatic winter rope rescue earlier this month.
•The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office will no longer accept cash or check payments for Concealed Pistol Licenses and DUI cost recovery fees.

•Vehicles in a tow yard alongside Highway 97A caught fire Wednesday evening in Entiat.
•A man who shot and killed a Quincy teenager in 2022 must be resentenced for the murder.
•The Badger Mountain Ski Hill is experiencing financial woes due to this winter’s lack of snow.

•An employee on a contractor crew hired by the Chelan County PUD has died along Lake Chelan after a utility pole collapsed underneath him.
•The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help locating 33-year-old David Gimlett, a Leavenworth man who has been missing since last week.
•A DUI wreck outside of Omak injured three people on Tuesday night.

•The Wenatchee Valley ski community came out today to honor a local legend Otto Ross.
•A Wenatchee man faces possible hit-and-run charges after allegedly striking a group of hikers with his pickup on Saturday, injuring a father and his 8-year-old child.
•The East Wenatchee City Council is proposing changes to the city’s banner display policy.

•East Wenatchee police say a teen driver led them on a high-speed pursuit early Saturday morning, endangering bystanders and eventually crashing in the 800 block of Valley Mall Parkway.
•Chelan County sheriff's deputies say they apprehended a suspect Friday night in a shooting that left one man wounded in downtown Chelan.
•A winter rockslide closed a portion of Highway 155 in Grant County on Saturday, cutting off access to Steamboat Rock State Park for westbound travelers.