OKANOGAN – A woman convicted of killing her uncle when she was 16 has been returned to Okanogan County for resentencing.

OKANOGAN – Temperatures plummeted Monday, Jan. 15, in the aftermath of snow late last week and high winds over the weekend.

NESPELEM – The deadline for voting in a tribal referendum on Colville Business Council terms of office has been extended to Jan. 28 and poll voting has been added.

OKANOGAN – Two people were charged Dec. 31 in Okanogan County Superior Court in connection with break-ins at the Omak Stampede ticket office and three other buildings in East Side Park.

OKANOGAN – An Oroville man was charged Jan. 8 with burglary and two other crimes in the third filing against him in a month.

OKANOGAN – A portion of Salmon Creek Road will remain closed through Feb. 28 while a bridge replacement project is wrapped up.

OKANOGAN – People who sign on to help fund the Okanogan County Public Utility District’s solar project will get a bill credit.

OLYMPIA — Democratic and Republican candidates have been certified by Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman to appear on the state’s March 10 presidential primary ballot.

OKANOGAN – Washington State Patrol troopers issued 88 tickets in Okanogan County for driving under the influence in 2019, down from 129 in the previous year.

OMAK – The city is entering an agreement with the state Transportation Improvement Board for a grant to pay a new sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and Benton Street.

OKANOGAN – Councilman Wayne Turner was re-elected mayor pro tem by the Okanogan City Council during its Jan. 7 meeting.

OMAK – Mid-Valley Hospital and Family Health Centers are working together to develop a “center of excellence for maternity services” program.

OLYMPIA - Addressing wildfires “is as important to the state as education, mental health, health care” and transportation, says 12th District Sen. Brad Hawkins, R-East Wenatchee. “It should get the first dollar, not the last dime.”

TACOMA – The U.S. Army is making another stab at establishing off-base helicopter training areas, including one mountain training area, but is staying away from Okanogan County this time.

OKANOGAN - Okanogan County Public Health officials are dealing with an outbreak of hepatitis A and continuing concerns about the flu.

RIVERSIDE – A mobile home on Greenacres Road was destroyed Dec. 28 in a fire being blamed on an electrical problem near the furnace.

OKANOGAN – A status conference is planned Jan. 13 for a Redmond man charged with multiple crimes after allegedly breaking into an Omak home last March, assaulting the occupants and stealing their truck.

CONCONULLY – An Omak man was killed and his wife injured when their vehicle went off Mineral Hill Road west of town on New Year’s Eve.

OMAK – A smoky fire that was mostly confined to a chair ended up being deadly Jan. 3.

OKANOGAN - The annual Omak-Okanogan Community Christmas Basket program provided holiday food to more than 1,100 people.

EAST WENATCHEE – No rate increase is included in the Douglas County Public Utility District’s 2020 budget, which was passed Dec. 23.

CONCONULLY – A man was killed and his wife injured when their vehicle went off Mineral Hill Road west of town on New Year’s Eve.

OMAK – Fire, local politics, homicides and health care dominated the news during 2019.

OKANOGAN – Two members of the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office recently graduated from the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission’s basic law enforcement academy in Spokane.

OKANOGAN – People can check out mobile hot spots from the Okanogan Public Library through Jan. 15.

OKANOGAN – Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to several calls during the week leading up to Christmas that had potential to be serious.

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OLYMPIA — Several bills to address rising prescription drug prizes have been pre-filed for the 2020 legislative session.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Funding for several programs important to Washington state are included in spending bills to fund the government for fiscal year 2020.

OROVILLE – A 9-year-old girl died Dec. 23 when the vehicle in which she was riding went off Highway 97 just south of town and overturned.

OKANOGAN – Customers of the Okanogan County Public Utility District can expect a 2 percent overall rate increase during 2020.

PATEROS – Pateros School Board members are considering whether to pursue switching to a four-day school week.

OMAK – Two newly elected board members and one re-elected member were sworn in during the Omak School Board’s Dec. 17 meeting.

NESPELEM – The Colville Confederated Tribes’ funding application for a new Omak clinic has reached the fiscal year 2020 joint venture final application list.

OMAK – The city council agreed Dec. 16 to extend the agreement with Omak Stampede Inc. for management of the rodeo arena.

OKANOGAN – Five re-elected city council members were sworn in for new terms during the Dec. 17 council meeting.

OMAK – Mid-Valley Hospital’s board reviewed the district’s strategic plan from the past year during its meeting Dec. 10.

MAZAMA - The final home of Methow Housing Trust’s first phase of construction in Mazama’s McKinney Ridge Neighborhood has sold.

OKANOGAN – An Oroville man charged in the death of his girlfriend has a readiness hearing set for Jan. 6 in Okanogan County Superior Court.

BREWSTER – The new Brewster Middle School complex is mostly done, with the district-wide construction budget on budget and on schedule.

OKANOGAN – Upgrades are coming to the Virginia Grainger Elementary School playground.

OLYMPIA - A phone number associated with the Washington State Patrol was used last week in a “spoofing” scam associated with fraudulent bomb threats.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bill dealing with farm labor and the H-2A guest worker program, has passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

SEATTLE - Colville Indian Housing Authority is getting a $5 million block grant through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

OLYMPIA - Washingtonians soon will have access to the most generous paid family and medical leave program in the nation.