July 13, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

July 13, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

NCWLIFE Evening Newscast

July 9, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

•  Assessment and search teams were working in McNeil Canyon on Tuesday in an attempt to locate other possible casualties of the Chelan Hills Acres wildfire. • A 100-acre brushfire burning north of Quincy was quickly encircled Wednesday morning by local fire crews. •  East Wenatchee has become ground zero for a fair amount of road excavation and construction, including a traffic shutdown today at Fifth Street and Eastmont Avenue, which ends tomorrow morning.

July 8, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

• A criminal investigation of the Chelan Hills Acres Fire is underway. The wildfire is believed to be human-caused, and may have been started by fireworks. •  Chelan County deputies responding to a vehicle crash report over the weekend recovered the body of a driver, killed when his vehicle slid into the Chelan River Gorge. • As the Chelan Hills Fire progressed after its start on July 4th, it caused injuries for multiple firefighters, with some suffering minor burns and others enduring smoke inhalation.

July 7,2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

• Authorities are working to assess the damage as the Chelan Hills Fire continues burning in Douglas County. That 10,000-acre fire that began on July 4th was about 20% contained as of this morning, but it’s damaged or destroyed 100 or more structures on either side of McNeil Canyon Road, including homes and farms.  • The main eastbound highway into Leavenworth will close next week for four days, to permanently repair damage from the December 2025 flooding. • Recovery workers have been able to raise a tugboat that sank last week in the Columbia River above Priest Rapids Dam.

July 6, 2026 | NCWLIFE Evening News

• The Grant County Fire Marshal says the county experienced nearly a hundred brushfires over the July 4th weekend. • One person has died over the weekend as an apparent result of the Chelan Hills Fire. Sheriff Tyler Caille said today a deceased person was found Sunday in a crashed vehicle, inside the nearly 10,000-acre footprint of the fire. • Two climbers, one of them injured, were rescued Friday by Chelan County Mountain Rescue teams from 8,400 feet up on Mount Stuart, the tallest mountain on the popular Enchantments trail.