• The Washington Supreme Court says the Grant County Jail has broad immunity in a lawsuit brought by the survivors of an inmate who died from a heroin overdose.

• he Wenatchee man arrested early Tuesday for an alleged knife attack on his girlfriend is now facing three felony charges, and Douglas County sheriff’s deputies say the assault was captured on home security video.

• Chelan County is moving to assist the remote Lake Chelan community of Stehekin after the December floods.

• The Common Ground Community Housing Trust is accepting applications for its affordable homes on Ninth Street in Wenatchee.

• The Washington state Legislature has passed a bill to ban law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings.

• The killer of a young mother in Moses Lake has entered a plea in her death.

•An East Wenatchee man is jailed after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend in the neck early this morning. The assault was reported just after 2 a.m.

•The state of Washington and the federal government are expecting to pay roughly $180,000 dollars for temporary repairs on Beaver Hill, a steep and winding road grade just outside the town of Plain.

•The Washington Legislature is sprinting toward a March 12th deadline to pass the new state budget, with a possible $2 billion dollar deficit despite the proposed millionaires tax.

• About 70 people gathered at Memorial Park in Wenatchee on Sunday to protest recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, joining anti-war demonstrations held across the country.

• The early access lottery is open for the North Cascades National Park. 

• There’s a new sheriff in town. Tyler Caille, the Douglas County undersheriff for the last seven years,  was sworn in this morning by County Commissioner Dan Sutton.

• A Moses Lake man accused of murder in the death of his grandfather in 2024 has entered a guilty plea.

• The veteran fire chief for the city of Manson and its surroundings has announced his retirement.

• On Saturday, the Chuck Wagon Ministries food pantry will begin operations at the King’s Harvest Church of Christ in Wenatchee.

•An elderly Grant County man who plotted from prison to have his ex-wife and daughter killed cannot be released on medical grounds, despite documented health problems.

•A Wenatchee 16-year-old was struck and injured by another teen Tuesday in the parking lot of Winco Foods, and now that driver is facing hit-and-run charges.

•The Chopaka Lake and Cold Spring Campgrounds in Okanogan County are at risk of closure due to state budget cuts.

•A Manson business owner and his son no longer face federal charges for illegally importing emissions devices.

•A Wenatchee Valley mental health counselor was sentenced Monday to one month in jail after inappropriately messaging or touching two of his clients — ages 14 and 18 — told police that he had inappropriately messaged them or touched them.

•Central Washington lawmakers are working to put together funding for public building and infrastructure projects in the Wenatchee Valley.

•Progress is underway on Moses Lake’s new hospital building. Samaritan Healthcare says the new hospital location will be open for patient visits two weeks from now.

•An 18-year-old suspect in a shooting last month in downtown Chelan has entered a guilty plea, but not to the shooting itself.

•Firefighters were called this morning to a commercial structure fire at cryptocurrency mining operation near Pangborn Airport.

•The Wenatchee Valley Fire Department responded to emergency calls over the weekend to three different residential fires around the city, two of them in the Sunnyslope neighborhood.

•Two different open letters submitted by Confluence Health physicians and former leaders continue to raise concerns about the health system's planned cancer center.

•The Wenatchee Jazz Workshop has become a musical tradition in the Valley since it was established in 2000.

•Grant County authorities have released the names of the five sheriff’s deputies who fatally shot a Moses Lake man on Monday evening.

•Douglas County PUD commissioners declared a maintenance emergency at their Renewable Hydrogen Production Facility at Baker Flats on Tuesday, and authorized General Manager Gary Ivory to negotiate new contracts for its hydrogen electrolyzer system.

•A Wenatchee man was sentenced this week to a diversionary mental health program in lieu of jail this week, after pleading guilty to charges of arson and reckless burning.