• The 53-year-old man found dead in his cell Sunday at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center has been identified.

• U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum made a commitment yesterday to build a new, permanent access road in Stehekin during a Senate committee hearing.

•  The annual delegation from Misawa, Japan has arrived in the Wenatchee Valley, just in time for the climax of the Apple Blossom Festival.

• A Monday shooting in the town of Brewster left one man wounded and four juvenile suspects in custody. 

• Starting in October, air travelers can enjoy a new, nonstop flight out of Pangborn Memorial Airport to Portland.

• The man who killed a Moses Lake mother of three will serve at least 20 years in prison for the crime.

• Two Wenatchee Valley men serving time in separate felonies have failed to overturn the conditions of their sentences.

• A Wenatchee man who was among those arrested in the 2024 Net Nanny sting operation targeting people seeking to pay for underage sex has entered a guilty plea.

• Candidates for public office will need to file with their county auditor’s office for this year’s primary and general elections, starting next week on May 4.

• Music, culture, food and history all came together at the Wenatchee Convention Center Friday night, where hundreds gathered for a record-breaking game of Lotería.

• East Wenatchee police say two men were stabbed last night in the 800 block of North Baker Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

• Another Wenatchee Valley city will go without the banners that typically adorn the streets for Pride Month each June. 

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• Dressed in tiny uniforms and shiny badges, the new chiefs For A Day were appointed at noon today as part of the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival’s kickoff event.

• Wenatchee resident George Crater Jr. is guilty on all counts in the 2024 murder of his tenant in a suburban Phoenix vacation home. 

•  A fundraising dinner thrown by one local ski area to benefit another brought in more than $7,000 last week. 

•  Geothermal energy could soon be developed in North Central Washington.

•  One of the member tribes of the Colville Reservation has won a Canadian court case reinforcing its heritage in British Columbia.

• Wenatchee High School wants the community to come inside. The Wenatchee School District is currently proposing a $295 million bond that would build a new high school and address failing HVAC systems in seven other schools.

• Two people are dead after a hit-and-run accident Sunday evening in Moses Lake evolved into a high-speed chase.

• An East Wenatchee man who fired a handgun in the Wenatchee Valley Mall parking lot in September 2024 was sentenced in federal court last week to nearly 18 years in prison. 

• A new monument outside the Chelan County courthouse ensures even visually-impaired Americans can remain connected to their country’s flag.

• The national union representing U.S. Forest Service employees says the Trump Administration’s plan to reorganize the agency is an attempt to illegally carry out a reduction-in-force.

• The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it will soon begin conducting house inspections for disaster aid applicants in Chelan County, and throughout Washington.

•  A man convicted of child rape in 2022 has failed for the second time to overturn his case.

•Five contestants over 55 years of age faced off last night in the 2nd annual Granny Apple Pageant, hosted by Colonial Vista Senior Living.

•The murder trial of a Wenatchee man has entered its fourth week in Phoenix, Arizona, where George W. Crater Jr. is accused of fatally beating and torturing a tenant in his vacation home who fell behind on rent.

•The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is asking for public assistance to identify a person who was at Highlander Golf Course when a burglary alarm went off.