•An apartment complex caught fire Thursday afternoon in Wenatchee, burning one unit in a duplex and displacing a family of three. The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department responded to a call at 3:33 p.m.

•The city of East Wenatchee will close a portion of Fifth Street Northeast next week to begin infrastructure projects in the area.

•The Building Better Tomorrows Foundation is sponsoring an Instrument Drive to benefit local student musicians.

•Congressman Dan Newhouse was one of six Republicans voting yesterday to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

•Chelan County leadership visited the remote Lake Chelan village of Stehekin this week to learn more about the status of Company Creek Road and other damages from the December storms.

•The Town Nissan car dealership in East Wenatchee, owned by the Barros and Lisson families, is shutting down one month from now.

•U.S. Highway 2 is now fully open between Monroe and Leavenworth for the first time in two months.

•Rivercom, the emergency dispatch service for Chelan and Douglas counties, is well on its way to a new funding stream.

•The city of Omak and NCW Libraries reached an agreement after a dispute over the status of the Omak Public Library.

•The U.S. Army Ranger accused of committing a mass shooting outside a Gorge Amphitheatre music festival will be tried in military court, rather than in Grant County.

•One Confluence Health pharmacist went above and beyond for a cancer patient’s treatment last week.

•The selection pageant for Apple Blossom 2026 is drawing near, and NCWLIFE’s Eric Granstrom has been getting to know all ten candidates for the Royal Court.

• The city of Chelan has issued a draft environmental assessment, looking at the impacts of a proposed runway relocation at Lake Chelan Airport.  

•The Top 10 finalists for Apple Blossom Queen have been making the rounds in the Wenatchee Valley, and now the time for their final pageant is drawing near.

•The empty seat on the Chelan Fire & Rescue Commissioner Board has been filled.

•The Washington State Department of Transportation says the Tumwater Canyon segment of Highway 2 is expected to reopen in mid-February, a month earlier than expected.
•An injured construction worker on the site of the Majestic Apartment project in downtown Wenatchee was rescued via a ladder truck yesterday afternoon.
•A man who ventured onto thin ice this week at Fish Lake had a stroke of luck…
•Go Hawks!

•Students from the Eastmont School District left school for a demonstration today against U.S. immigration policy.
•Douglas County has launched an agricultural land analysis to evaluate its agricultural resource lands.
•A man facing federal charges from local bank robberies in September is now charged in local court as well.

•Chelan County has asked Gov. Bob Ferguson to seek federal help for engineering and construction assistance in Stehekin.
•Wenatchee police are searching for a woman missing since mid-January.
•A transit bus was T-boned Tuesday by a pickup driver just outside Moses Lake.

•The man found guilty of shooting his former girlfriend to death on Badger Mountain Road three years ago appeared from prison by video yesterday to have two of his convictions vacated.
•Roughly 188,000 people are now in line for a share of a $1.3 million dollar settlement from the Chelan-Douglas Health District.
•Douglas and Grant County sheriff’s deputies cooperated Monday to arrest two people suspected of breaking into a property in the Palisades area.

•An Okanogan County man charged with the murder of his infant daughter was arrested Friday in Iowa.
•A 49-year-old Chelan woman is dead after being struck by a pickup truck while she was walking on Highway 97 near Pateros.
•The Chelan Douglas Regional Port Authority says Dollar General has backed out of talks to build a retail development at the port’s Cashmere Mill District.