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Chelan County Jail continues to implement RFID medical sensors all single holding cells. Chelan County Commissioner Kevin Overbay said the county is implementing the sensors in 44 more cells after installing 24 during 2024. "What that does is basically provides our folks in the jail an opportunity to monitor vital signs of individuals in single cells, and generally the individuals in single c

Residential campfires are now banned in unincorporated Chelan County. With unseasonably hot and windy conditions this weekend, the Chelan County fire marshal is banning all residential campfires in the county's unincorporated areas. The ban does not include propane-fueled campfire units, nor does it apply to commercially made barbecues and camp stoves...

Chelan PUD is exploring ways to keep energy affordable to their customers despite increased load to Microsoft's new data center campus in Malaga. According to a release, PUD commissioners considered contract terms supplying power to the campus while protecting reliability and stable rates for existing customers...

Chelan County is seeking people interested in filling a two-year term on the county's Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC). The LTAC is a voluntary board making recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on the allocation of tax dollars generated by overnight stays in the county's unincorporated areas...

A waterfront park in Malaga is this much closer to becoming a reality. The Board of County Commissioners signed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 27.51 along the Malaga waterfront for just over $2 million from KB Alloys Inc. Commissioners signed a purchase agreement at a regular board meeting two weeks ago...

Chelan County is proposing changes to the two fire hazard zone restriction plan. The county maintains different restrictions in the lower and drier Valley Zone from the higher elevated and moister Mountain Zone. County Commissioner Shon Smith says that among the proposed revisions are changes to when the restrictions are implemented, camp fires and outdoor burning and vehicle access...

Voluntary boat inspections resume this Memorial Day Weekend at Lake Chelan for the third season. Chelan County Natural Resources says they hold the inspection program every year to keep aquatic invasive species (AIS), including milfoil and quagga and zebra mussels, and other non-native species from entering the Lake Chelan ecosystem...

According to the state Department of Ecology, drought conditions continue in central Washington and may be developing in the northern and even western parts of the state.  And the recent Water Supply Availability Committee meeting indicated existing drought conditions are likely to persist through the summer, and in some areas, conditions may worsen. T...

This week is National Boating Week, and local authorities are advising the public of safe boating practices. Washington state ranks among the most deadly for boating accidents at third in the nation, with 44 percent of the recreational boating accidents resulting in fatal injuries...

Police mishandled evidence in a case involving a registered sex offender in Chelan County, which leads to the dismissal of third-degree rape charges. That's the ruling from a Chelan County judge earlier this week, as Superior Court Judge Travis Brandt tossed the charges against 29-year-old Bernadino Dwite Hamilton...