News Staff LEAVENWORTH – Skiers reportedly carried away by an avalanche near Leavenworth on Tuesday miraculously walked away unharmed. A report posted on the Northwest Avalanche Center (NWAC) website states they were hiking up the north side of Cashmere Mountain at around 7,000 ft. when a ‘wind slab’ broke loose causing them to be pushed down the … Read more
EPHRATA – Juvenile offenders in Grant County will soon have a new home. The youth offenders will be sent to the juvenile detention facility in Chelan County beginning in March. Commissioners in both counties have approved an agreement for Grant County to use the facility in Wenatchee starting March 1. -0-
WENATCHEE – Prosecutors in Chelan County have filed a motion to dismiss a murder charge against a 24-year-old man they say killed a man this fall in Cashmere. Jesus Torres-Lucatero currently remains charged with second-degree murder in the Sept. 23 shooting death of 22-year-old Gustavo Urbina-Sotelo in the Cashmere Valley Bank parking lot. Prosecutors say … Read more
MOSES LAKE – The annual Moses Lake Spring Fest will feature some 90’s music icons for their 2023 live line up. This years Spring Fest performers will include, rapper Vanilla Ice, R&B singer Montell Jordan, and rapper Tone Loc. The 2023 Moses Lake Spring Festival will run from May 25 to May 28, at the … Read more
GPS data will allow wildlife officials to study bighorn sheep, and ultimately help to identify management solutions. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife will begin a series of aerial captures between Jan. and March of bighorn sheep, mule deer and mountain goats in Okanogan, Chelan, and Kittitas counties and the animals will be … Read more
EPHRATA – A Washington state wildlife habitat is seeking volunteers for a winter survey event that involves the endangered pygmy rabbits near Ephrata. It’s estimated that there are fewer than 100 Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits left in the Evergreen State, and Conservation Northwest has scheduled the winter surveys for the end of January into early … Read more
MOSES LAKE – The Moses Lake School District has confirmed that it is investigating an incident allegedly involving racial slurs during Friday nights game with Eisenhower High School. The head coach of the Eisenhower High School basketball team, told iFIBER ONE News that the team began hearing racial slurs, including the N word, and animal-like … Read more
WARDEN – A man convicted in a November DUI wreck near Warden has been sentenced to jail time. Timothy Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts of vehicular assault, stemming from the collision on state Route 17 at Road 6, where troopers say the 25 year old ran the stop sign and crashed into an SUV. … Read more
WENATCHEE – Wenatchee’s Police Department continues its investigation into the death of an elderly man found buried in a snowbank in Wenatchee just after Christmas. Police believe the 96-year-old man, who was discovered Dec. 30, near the Prestige Care/Colonial Vista independent living facility, may have ventured out on Dec. 29, and his body was discovered … Read more
BLEWETT PASS – Two adults and three children were injured in a collision Monday afternoon on Highway 97 on Blewett Pass. Willow W. Howard, a 31-year-old White Swan woman, apparently lost control of her vehicle on Highway 97, crossed the centerline, and collided with a pickup truck heading in the opposite direction, sending both vehicles … Read more