Jason Taylor

The resort says 42 new light poles have been added along the Upper Basin run off of the Wenatchee Express chairlift, which creates a vertical drop of 2,250 feet.

The Northwest Coordination Center reports more than 2,000 lightning strikes hit the state overnight Tuesday morning, but they were mostly accompanied by rain showers.

The watch covers the east slopes of the Cascades and the mountainous areas across the Okanogan Highlands.

A bigger Type 2 Incident Management Team - Northwest Team 8 - is replacing the locally based Type 3 Team that was handling the fire since it started Saturday morning just after 5 am.

The former employees now are asking for their complaint to include the claim that they were discriminated against based on medical and/or religious disabilities.

Wenatchee Police Sergeant Nathan Hahn says a male suspect has been arrested, although evidence is still being collected.

Revenue collections in the current budget cycle which runs through the middle of next year are now expected to increase by $1.46 billion.

Troopers say Sierra Stoddard of Cashmere was traveling westbound on I-90 about 11 miles east of Moses Lake when her SUV was hit head on by a pickup truck with a trailer that was traveling the wrong way.

Both fires are on steep terrain in wooded areas, and are only being attacked through the air because of their remote locations about 15 miles northeast of plain.

There's concern about continued illegal campfires taking place in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest. The ban has been in place since August 11 because of the hot, dry weather and increasingly dangerous conditions for fires. Robin DeMario with the National Forest says department personnel are out every day and late into the night finding illegal campfires...