•The Eastmont School Board cannot take any action or consider a response to the recent arrest of one of its members until its next board meeting in 2026, according to Superintendent Spencer Taylor.
•The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department says an apartment fire on Castlerock Street was narrowly averted this morning when the fire burned through a water line and extinguished itself.
•The Chelan County PUD has found a good use for the piles and piles of debris created by the recent atmospheric river event.

•The Washington Department of Transportation began repair work on Highway 2 Stevens Pass on Thursday.
•Economic development commissioners for Chelan County still plan a vote Tuesday on installing a tax-increment financing district in the Malaga area.
•The Wenatchee School District is set to begin a modernization project of the Wenatchee Valley Technical Skills Center next month.

•One of the youth victims of a deadly November auto crash in Wenatchee will be laid to rest tomorrow.
•One person is dead and two others injured after a pair of collisions yesterday and this morning on Highway 28.
•The state Court of Appeals today overturned the conviction of a Moses Lake man serving 10 years for multiple sex offenses against a child.

•About 11 staff members remain at Holden Village, the Lutheran retreat community above Lake Chelan that was cut off from its only access road by last week’s flooding and landslides.
•Eastmont School Board member Jason Heinz was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting his teenage daughter and stalking his ex-fiancée.
•The weather gave the Wenatchee Valley another blast overnight, with gusts up to 61 miles an hour recorded around 4 a.m. today at Pangborn Memorial Airport.

•A drill that struck a two-inch natural gas line caused a major leak into the basement of a longtime Wenatchee apartment complex. The Vradenburg apartments on downtown Yakima Street had to be evacuated just after 2pm today, along with buildings in the vicinity including the Wenatchee Police Department, and the NCWLIFE studios.
•Chelan County residents who’ve suffered losses as a result of the recent windstorm and flood are being asked to report the damage to begin the process for financial assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
•Lighthouse Christian Ministries filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Wenatchee today over the closure of its soup kitchen.

•The village of Stehekin is under an evacuation notice as it faces more possible flooding.
•That viral photo you saw over the weekend is the real thing. A section of Highway 2 just west of Leavenworth that tumbled into the raging Wenatchee River during Thursday’s flooding.
•The city of Leavenworth has begun to restore normalcy after last week’s deluge and windstorm, but similar weather may be yet to come.

•Chelan County has declared a state of emergency in response to damage sustained from the rain and windstorms.
•The greater Leavenworth area was still without power this afternoon after widespread power outages followed severe winds and rainfall this week.
•Governor Bob Ferguson’s Office announced today that President Donald Trump approved Washington state’s request for federal emergency assistance.

•Eleven thousand Chelan County households were without power this morning and travel through western Chelan County became hazardous in the wake of severe winds and rainfall.
•No evacuation notices have been issued related to the area’s floods, and authorities say so far, no serious injuries or fatalities have been reported as a direct result of high waters.
•Road closures were declared throughout Chelan County due to high water and falling trees.

•Officials are warning of floods and disruptions as rains continue to fall and river levels rise around the state.
•It took a combination of resources to recover the body of an Entiat man missing since December 2nd.
•The Cascade School District’s athletic booster club is raising money to support a bus driver injured in a fatal accident while transporting Cascade High School wrestlers to a tournament.