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Chelan County warns hikers about illegal parking at Olalla Canyon Trail during balsamroot season, with towing and fines possible.

A Chelan County man is dead following a base jumping accident near Rocky Reach Dam on Sunday morning. The Chelan County Sheriff's Office says it happened at around 8:45 a.m. just off U.S. Highway 97A when 47-year-old Elliot Barstow of Entiat was killed when his parachute didn't open. W...

A call came to Rivercom Dispatch at about 8 pm Sunday that a climber had broken a leg, and a companion climber lost his rope.

Sheriff's deputies and firefighters were called to the scene after witnesses say the man dove off an embankment across the river from Spanish Castle.

The body of a woman who died last winter in an avalanche on Colchuck Peak eight miles south of Leavenworth has been recovered. The remains of 60-year-old Jeannie Lee of Bayside, New York were found on Monday afternoon by a Chelan County Mountain Rescue volunteer...

Local law enforcement officials have taken down the final players in a drug trafficking ring they say was responsible for distributing a large amount of fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine throughout North Central Washington. The organization was comprised of five men who all have lengthy criminal histories with the distribution of illicit narcotics...