•All guests and non-essential staff are being evacuated from Holden Village and nearby facilities as the 60-acre Martin Fire continues to burn in the area.
•A Level 1 “be ready” fire advisory was issued this morning for Blewett Pass after another wildfire caused by lightning ignited last night.
•The Washington State Department of Transportation will close Knapps Hill Tunnel after Labor Day to replace its failing lighting system.

•Two people in a Grant County long-term care facility have died and many more were sickened by a COVID-19 outbreak.
•A Level 2 “get ready” evacuation notice was issued this morning for Holden Village, including the Rio Tinto Mine water treatment plant, as the lightning-caused Martin Fire grows.
•A tractor driver was injured in a collision on Highway 281 early this morning near Quincy.

•The two occupants of a small plane that crashed into a house during a failed landing attempt at the Cashmere airport say they’re recovering after the ordeal.
•Authorities say they’re still investigating a deadly house fire that happened last week in Chelan, and still unable to publicly identify the two people killed.
•The driver who bumped a group of police officers with his vehicle while fleeing a traffic stop will serve four months in jail.

•About 100 federal agents are moving through the Icicle River area where the Decker sisters were murdered almost three months ago, carrying out a grid search in pursuit of the father who’s accused of killing them.
•Two people were injured in a three-car collision Monday afternoon on Highway 28 near Quincy.
•As the Valley Academy of Learning begins its new life inside the former Columbia Elementary School building, the Wenatchee School Board is determining what to do with its former site. 

•Last night, the FBI once again began a sweep of the forested area where Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia Decker were found murdered nearly three months ago.
•Quincy police say a local resident was already wanted on a warrant when he decided to use a handgun to settle an argument.
•The city of Chelan struggled today with a water main break that threatened to deplete its reservoirs.

•A recreational vehicle caught fire yesterday while traveling on Highway 97. That led to a wildfire that had to be controlled before highway traffic could resume.
•A second person has now been reported as killed in the house fire at 418 East Woodin Ave. in Chelan early Thursday morning.
•The East Wenatchee City Council voted this week to impose a new 0.1% sales tax that takes effect next year.

•Two people were injured and one person was killed in a house fire at 418 East Woodin Avenue in Chelan early this morning.
•A homeless Wenatchee man who pleaded guilty to setting fire to a drainage pipe back in February is again charged with arson, this time for allegedly starting a small fire near Hale Park on the Apple Capital Loop Trail.
•East Wenatchee police say they’ve arrested a 27-year-old Cashmere man for providing fentanyl that contributed to a woman’s death. 

•Police in Mattawa and Moses Lake are seeking public assistance in solving a homicide in a public park.
•A three-year-old rescue from the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society is the new narcotics-detecting dog for the Chelan County Regional Justice Center.
•The Level 1 evacuation notice on Holden Village was lifted on Tuesday after being in place since early July due to the Pomas Fire.

•A barn was destroyed by a fire Monday morning along Blewett Pass, though firefighters were able to prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby trees.
•Four people were injured in a four-vehicle wreck on Highway 2 yesterday afternoon in Tumwater Canyon.
•Today marks ten years since the Twisp River Fire, started by tree branches contacting a power line.

•Governor Bob Ferguson has authorized an investigation into the conduct of members on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, including its new vice-chair, former wildlife biologist John Lehmkuhl of Wenatchee.
•Three people were injured in a four-car DUI collision Friday afternoon on Highway 97 near Pateros.
•A new report from the Washington State Auditor finds that Moses Lake schools did not appropriately track their employees hours and productivity when paying them with federal Title I funding.