Hikers in the Enchantments attempted Sunday to rescue a drowning man in Colchuck Lake, but authorities say he was beyond resuscitation.
Chelan County is calling its first Blake Relief Day a big success after 28 drug possession cases were vacated in district court last month.
And the entire town of Electric City in northwest Grant County was placed under a Level 2 evacuation warning on Wednesday, as a brushfire on the southeast side of town grew to roughly 29 acres.

A misfiring handgun may have saved a Moses Lake man from becoming a victim of homicide. 
Firefighters were able to spare a Leavenworth dining spot from a kitchen fire on Monday night. 
And voters in the city of Wenatchee appear to have rejected a sales tax that would have doubled the budget for street repair and improvements.

A trailer carrying scrap metal tipped over on the George Sellar Bridge on Monday, causing heavy traffic congestion on the south end of Wenatchee.
A 37-year-old Moses Lake man died after reportedly running a stop sign in the Mae Valley area and being struck by another vehicle.
The Wenatchee School District will hold a budget hearing on Aug. 12 to take public comments on the upcoming school years' spending plan.

The Grant County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that happened Saturday at the Shell gas station in Desert Aire. Also on Saturday, a Moses Lake man died in a two-car crash on Highway 28 near Soap Lake. Then on Sunday, four homes were destroyed in the Brooks Tract Fire near Omak.

East Wenatchee police responding to a report of gunshots Thursday night found a bullet-riddled pickup truck, apparently damaged in an exchange of gunfire. The two occupants of a Cessna that crashed into a home Wednesday near the Cashmere Airport are now in stable condition and a 550 acre wildfire in Okanogan County sparked Level 3 evacuations yesterday.

A small plane apparently went off the end of the runway Wednesday night at the Cashmere-Dryden Airport, crashing into the roof of a house nearby. A specialized search team walked and swam roughly two miles of upper Icicle Creek yesterday in the hunt for wanted murder suspect Travis Decker and Police in Quincy are seeking the public’s help to solve a John Doe case dating back at least 16 years.

Lighthouse Christian Ministries will appeal to the Wenatchee Hearings Examiner in early August in hopes of staying open.  A 26 year old man was arrested for DUI early this morning in Wenatchee after running his vehicle off the roadway and into a fire hydrant and Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison is encouraging hikers to exercise caution after Search and Rescue personnel performed two wilderness evacuations this past weekend.

One of the 12 men arrested in last year’s Net Nanny operation targeting suspected sex offenders has entered a plea in federal court. 
Near Rock Island yesterday, an allegedly impaired driver is suspected of causing a collision with a semi-truck at the intersection of Highway 28 and Batterman Road and a state police commission is still reviewing the steps Douglas County Sheriff Kevin Morris took after shooting a cougar on his property in Idaho.

The discovery of human remains at a Spokane homeless encampment have put an end to a three-year Okanogan County manhunt. Police are investigating an apparent shooting that occurred last night in Douglas County and the city of East Wenatchee hopes a proposed public safety sales tax can reinforce its police budgets.

Two members of a Wenatchee Valley family have been touched by fatal violence at the Arizona vacation home they owned. A 26-year-old East Wenatchee man was arrested early Friday morning after an hours-long standoff with police. And a former East Wenatchee Water District employee was awarded $5 million on Thursday by a federal jury.