•A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot.
•The Wenatchee City Council on Thursday adopted a Criminal Justice Sales Tax, adding a 0.1 percent sales and use tax on business conducted within the city.
•A Wenatchee Valley man whose child was exposed to illicit drugs in the family home two years ago was sentenced this week to a year plus one day in jail.

•A judge has blocked Chelan County’s attempt to place a moratorium on new tax-increment financing districts.
•A 35-year-old motorist was arrested Thursday morning after crashing at the Easy Street roundabout, and then fleeing from the scene on foot.
•Residents in the Lake Wenatchee fire district have succeeded in a lawsuit to overturn the election that approved a $15 million dollar bond issue over the summer.

•A rural highway collision on Tuesday involved a Moses Lake school bus carrying children, but fortunately did not result in any injuries.
•The Grant County Jail in Ephrata has become the site of another inmate death, the second one in less than a year.
•Federal prosecutors allege that an Omak man downloaded child sexual abuse material to his smartphone on multiple occasions.

•Okanogan County Sheriff Paul Budrow says a single-vehicle crash outside the town of Okanogan proved deadly on Saturday. All told, 11 individuals were in the vehicle when it rolled.
•Teachers and staff at the tiny Palisades Elementary School in rural Douglas County discovered a burglary Monday morning.
•The Chelan-Douglas Action Council says it began to see some increased need last week as SNAP users prepared for the funding to end.

•A Brewster woman was struck and killed Saturday night on Highway 97, five miles east of her hometown.
•Authorities have identified the Wenatchee woman killed last week when her bedroom caught fire.
•Community members from the Wenatchee Valley gathered this past weekend at the Wenatchee Valley Museums' Day of the Dead event to celebrate and honor loved ones who’ve died.

•The Wenatchee and East Wenatchee Police Departments have disabled a default setting on their Flock Safety surveillance systems after U.S. Border Patrol was able to access their license plate data without their knowledge.
•A sheriff’s deputy’s sense of smell led to an arrest Wednesday in what authorities say was a major Douglas County cannabis operation.
•Travelers on Interstate 90 will have to divert throughout the weekend as they approach Cle Elum.

•Washington State’s top cop is calling for a lower standard to measure intoxication among drivers.
•Wildfire teams began their last steps this week to wrap up response to the Lower Sugarloaf and Labor Mountain Fires.
•Prosecutors on Wednesday withdrew charges against a Wenatchee man accused of hurling three Molotov cocktails in an attack on his former partner and her current boyfriend.

•A Bridgeport woman is dead following a two-car head-on accident Tuesday afternoon on Highway 97, about a mile north of the Beebe Bridge.
•The East Wenatchee City Council Tuesday night tabled a resolution to change its banner display policy, following more than an hour of comments from the public in the Eastmont Junior High Auditorium.
•An East Wenatchee woman is facing a possible 10-day jail term plus an agreement to repay more than $25,000 after pleading guilty to embezzling from her employer.

•A Wenatchee man faces a likely prison term of almost 10 years after pleading guilty this week to sex crimes against a child.
•Warnings about a possible gunfire incident Friday led East Wenatchee police to make three arrests.
•The city of Quincy’s $15.7 million dollar plan to build a new aquatic center at East Park is beginning to come together.

•Two separate accidents on Highway 97 near Chelan, happening about three miles apart, sent a combined 10 people to the hospital this weekend.
•An estimated 1,500 people were on hand Saturday for Wenatchee’s second No Kings rally of the year, voicing opposition to Trump administration policies on immigration, the environment, the economy and more.
•Okanogan County deputies say a man visiting his student girlfriend at Liberty Bell High School in Winthrop brandished a firearm out of his vehicle window last week.