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WENATCHEE, Wash. -- If you're living in or traveling through central Washington this fall, you may notice some smoky skies. Starting October 16, fire officials will conduct prescribed burns throughout ...

Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest is planning prescribed fire operations this fall beginning as early as October 16, 2025, pending all required approvals. We estimate this work to continue through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A late-night lightning storm on Saturday, Sept. 6, started three small wildfires across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, ...

COLCHUCK LAKE, Chelan County – Can a lone ranger patrol 900 miles of trails in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest by herself? In the federal wilderness of Washington’s Cascades, the answer this ...

Continued hot, dry weather and the increasing fire hazard has prompted the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest to expand campfire restrictions across the forest. Expanded campfire restrictions go into ...

A sign at one of the boundaries of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. (U.S. Forest Service) A Republican proposal in the U.S. Senate that could have put millions of acres of public land in ...

Among the several controversial proposals emerging from the U.S. Senate this week as it considers the tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump has promoted as “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is one ...

Beginning June 13, campfire restrictions will go into effect in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, allowing campfires only in designated, developed recreation sites and select wilderness areas.

MAZAMA, Wash. – A sergeant with the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office and his K-9 partner found two suitcases filled with 186 pounds of methamphetamine in the Okanogan National Forest on Monday. The ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - A series of deadly mistakes, nearly all of them violations of basic safety rules, cost the lives of four firefighters in the northern Cascade Range last summer, the U.S. Forest Service ...