News Staff Drivers not obeying the chain-up requirements traveling across Snoqualmie Pass are causing problems. Washington state’s Department of Transportation noted that in 2021 and 2022 more than in other years they’ve been prompted to shutdown Snoqualmie Pass because of people thinking they can get over the pass on bald tires or not chaining up, KING 5 … Read more
Years of legal battles that embroiled the city of Republic and its former police chief has finally come to an end. The Seattle Times reports that a $275,000 settlement has been in a lawsuit in which a woman accused Ferry County Sheriff’s deputy Talon Venturo and then Republic police officer, Loren Culp of an improper … Read more
ELLENSBURG – Police quickly apprehended a 24-year-old man suspected of setting fire to the Ellensburg Racquet and Recreation Center early Friday. Deputies served a search warrant that same day at an apartment on East Helena Ave., and arrested Lyle “Chance” Morgan on first-degree arson connected with the fires that destroyed buildings and property at ACX … Read more
ELLENSBURG – A Cle Elum business owner’s absence from work may have saved his life after an armed and disgruntled employee went looking for them at a metal shop on the east side of town Friday. Kittitas County Sheriff’s officials say 55-year-old Tom Hester, threatened the company’s owner over the phone and was walking around … Read more
CLE ELUM – Five people were injured in a two car crash on Blewett Pass Saturday night. Washington state troopers say speeding may have been a factor in the wreck in which a driver traveling NB apparently lost control and struck a car heading southbound. Both the driver and a passenger in the vehicle that … Read more
UPDATE — SNOQUALMIE PASS – Morning commuters will be relieved to know Eastbound Interstate 90 is back open over Snoqualmie Pass, according to WSDOT. The EB lanes had been shutdown over the weekend at North Bend due to a 15-car collision that occurred near Easton, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. WSDOT says … Read more
Bundle up and stay inside if you can, it’s going to get exceptionally cold Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists tell iFIBER ONE News that record-breaking temperatures will take thermometers into the single digits in the Wenatchee Valley and upper Columbia Basin. -0-
MOSES LAKE – After years of planning and months of building, the move into the new Moses Lake Food Bank facility begins this month. The new warehouse and distribution center is situated just north of SR 17, across the road from Home Depot in Moses Lake. Moses Food Bank Board Member Chris Hansen says the … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) – Legislation to avert what could have been an economically ruinous freight rail strike won final approval in Congress on Thursday. The Senate passed a bill to bind rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement reached in September that had been rejected by four of the 12 unions involved, creating the possibility … Read more
ELLENSBURG – A highly-contagious bacterial infection has been detected in a horse at a Kittitas County farm. A case of Strep Equi or ‘strangles’ was confirmed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture on Thanksgiving day [Nov. 24]. The horse’s owner has voluntarily put the infected steed into quarantine. It’s believed that about 10 other … Read more