• Human remains found in the Icicle River Valley may be those of Travis Decker, wanted in the June killings of his three daughters.

• Wenatchee High School students are adjusting to a new policy that locks away their phones during the school day.

• The Wenatchee River Salmon Festival returns this weekend at Rocky Reach Dam and Discovery Center.

•Sheriff’s deputies say two firefighters working the Lower Sugarloaf wildfire were involved in the thefts of two vehicles this week, including one that was stolen in Wenatchee and became involved in a police chase.
•Customers with the Chelan County Community Development department have been targeted recently by a new email scam.
•Chelan County is hosting an open house next week to show off the newly-updated Veterans Services Office on Orondo Avenue.

•A suspected robber who allegedly made two visits to local banks was apprehended Tuesday, and turned out to have a lengthy prior history of bank robbery.
•The Northwest Athletic Conference found the Wenatchee Valley College athletics department to have QUOTE “no significant structure, vision or plan” after WVC requested a review by the governing body earlier this year.
•Managers on the Lower Sugarloaf Fire changed evacuation levels yesterday, placing new areas under Level 2 notices. 

•The Chelan County Mountain Rescue team located a deceased hiker last week in the Dragontail Peak area of the Enchantments.
•Authorities modified the evacuation levels around the Lower Sugarloaf Fire, now at just over 18,000 acres and burning between the Chumstick and Entiat valleys.
•Another move to end COVID-19 vaccinations through the Chelan-Douglas Health District has failed.

•The 17,000 acre Lower Sugarloaf Fire is now listed at 11% contained. That’s a major step in the battle against that large fire, burning between the Entiat and Chumstick Valleys.
•Construction began today on Valley Mall Parkway in East Wenatchee between Northeast Ninth Street and Highway 28.
•The annual Fiestas Mexicanas at Triangle Park on Friday and Saturday drew thousands to celebrate Mexico's Independence Day, despite uncertainty around immigration concerns.

•It could have been a tragedy, but police say a quick-thinking semi driver averted disaster on Thursday when his vehicle lost its breaks heading downhill on Grant Road.
•The Lower Sugarloaf Fire burning between the Chumstick and Entiat Valleys picked up some energy on Thursday, growing to just over 15,000 acres.
•The Wenatchee City Council unanimously adopted a new policy Thursday night, concerning the use of artificial intelligence in city offices. 

•Chelan County Commissioners on Tuesday heard a grievance brought by the Teamsters Union, which represents supervisors and deputies at the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office.
•The growth of large wildfires in Chelan County has led to a local emergency declaration.
•A 36-year-old Ephrata man died Wednesday night after he crashed his motorcycle and was run over by a truck on Highway 28 near Soap Lake.

•At a community meeting held in Entiat on Tuesday, the team handling the Lower Sugarloaf Fire said they’re continuing to set dozer lines around the 13,814-acre blaze, burning between the Chumstick and Entiat River Valleys.
•The attorney for a woman arrested in Chelan on a false drunk-driving charge has won more than $42,000 in a settlement from the Washington State Patrol.
•The long-awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed expansion of Mission Ridge is now available, and open for public comment.

• A Moses Lake man who federal prosecutors called the primary gang recruiter for all of Grant County will spend 10 years in prison on firearms charges.
•A change in leadership at Wenatchee Valley College has the institution losing down a vice president.
•Governor Bob Ferguson visited Wenatchee today for the State Building and Construction Trades Council Convention, held downtown at the Wenatchee Convention Center.

• Eastward expansion of the Lower Sugarloaf Fire over the weekend prompted authorities to expand Level 3 evacuation notices to include the entire community of Ardenvoir.
• A former custodian at Sterling Junior High in East Wenatchee was charged late last month with sexual offenses against a student there, two years after his initial arrest.
• A Moses Lake man has pleaded guilty to child porn possession after his arrest last year.
• The Wenatchee River Institute is launching what it calls an “urgent” campaign to save its beloved Traveling Naturalist in the Classroom program.
• The City of Wenatchee plans to reopen nearby Hale Park on a limited basis while construction goes on.