OMAK – A Tonasket man was found guilty this week of murdering his wife in the spring of 2019. On Thursday, a jury found Lance Bowers guilty for his heinous crimes in an Okanogan County Superior Courtroom. Bowers is accused of killing his wife Angela Bowers whose human remains were found in the trunk of … Read more
A viral social media post calling out Dollar General for overworked and underpaid employee practices couldn’t happen at a worse time. The criticism comes as Dollar General opened in Mattawa and Kittitas last year, with two more Dollar Generals set for construction in the Soap Lake/Ephrata area and in Warden this year. A former manager … Read more
ELLENSBURG – Central Washington University’s police force is getting a makeover. According to an article, CWU was one of the first institutions to overhaul their image, when they swapped their militarized uniforms in 2017 for cargo pants and polo shirts. Now, the department says patrol vehicles will get a new look, with paint jobs of … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is filing an appeal to overturn a judge’s order voiding the federal travel mask mandate, officials said Wednesday. The notice came minutes after the CDC asked the Justice Department to appeal the decision handed down by a federal judge in Florida earlier this week, lifting the mask requirement on … Read more
MOSES LAKE – Tickets are now on sale for the 2022 Moses Lake Airshow returning returning this summer at the Grant County International Airport. The airshow is now in its third year, held in 2019 and 2021. The 2020 airshow was canceled due to COVID-19. Tickets went on sale on Tuesday for this year’s show … Read more
CLE ELUM – A crash on Sunday night didn’t end well for an elk that was crossing I-90 near Cle Elum. Washington State Trooper John Bryant says at around 9 p.m., an elk was struck by a pickup truck in the westbound lanes at milepost 82, which then caused the truck catch fire. Crews quickly … Read more
WENATCHEE – A Wenatchee family is seeking legal advice after they say a local church “forced” their daughter into being baptized during a public event on Easter Sunday. iFIBER ONE News’ report of the incident comes on the heels of an article published by an independent Wenatchee journalist to whom the family confirmed that Grace … Read more
On Tuesday, the Seattle Times reported that Dan Newhouse, the U.S. congressman representing Douglas, Grant, Adams, Okanogan and Franklin counties, has refunded some unwanted financial contributions from a small group of foreign supporters. The newspaper wrote that Newhouse returned $17,500 in political donations to PAC’s associated with two Chinse-controlled agribusiness conglomerates. Newhouse reportedly returned the … Read more
ELLENSBURG – Kittitas County Coroner Nick Henderson announced on Tuesday that his office has finally ID’d the cremated human remains that were found on the side of I-90 earlier this month. A permanent ID disc found in the urn identified the funeral home responsible for cremating the human remains as Danekas Funeral Home in Colville. … Read more
ELLENSBURG – Kittitas County coroners are unraveling the mystery behind a lost urn that was found on the side of I-90 between the town Kittitas and Ellensburg earlier this week. On Friday, iFIBER ONE News reached out to the Kittitas County Chief Deputy Coroner who says a serial number of the funeral home that performed … Read more