A 16-year old boy has been arrested in the alleged murder of a man found dead in his vehicle along U.S. Highway 97 in Orondo Wednesday afternoon. Douglas County Undersheriff Tyler Caille says sheriff’s detectives and officers of the Columbia River Drug Task Force, Grant County Drug Enforcement Team and East Cascade SWAT searched a home on Columbia Avenue in Bridgeport and took the teen into custody Thursday. The youth has been charged with second degree murder. Caille says the victim, found...

Chelan city councilman and former mayor Bob Goedde. Celebrating nearly 30 years of civic service, the Chelan City Council and citizens gathered at city hall to applaud councilman Bob Goedde Wednesday night. Goedde retires from the city council at the end of the month. "He has taught me so much," said Chelan Mayor Erin McCardle. "I don't think I've met anyone who is more intelligent in the ways of government (and municipal operations)." The mayor says Goedde taught her to listen and have an...

Douglas County Sheriff's deputies and other first responders on the scene of a possible homicide along U.S. Highway 97 in Orondo. Photo courtesy: Ashley DeTro Goetz. Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an unresponsive man in a vehicle along U.S. Highway 97 in Orondo on Wednesday. Washington State Patrol troopers, Douglas County Fire District #4 and Lake Chelan Health EMS personnel assisted at the scene, prompting a several-hours-long closure of a portion of the highway...