Tim McGuire, an artist and a recent arrival to Twisp, will be sworn in next month as the town’s newest council member. The ...

The audience for Rumba DB, a Seattle-based band that embraces Congolese music, lingered into the early evening at the free TwispWorks concert last Friday. More photos, page A6.

TwispWorks will close Methow Valley Goods, its on-campus compendium of locally made wares, after Labor Day, the nonprofit announced. It cited financial troubles in an announcement to store vendors and ...

While no cases of pertussis (also known as whooping cough) have occurred in Okanogan County, the number of cases statewide ...

Mayor Hans Smith on July 22 intended for the council to focus on his rewrite of a “resolution in defense of constitutional rights and civil liberties,” approved by the council on May 13. The new ...

Klaus Lüttgen is passionate about drinking water — and about preserving its purity and supply as the climate warms. Photo by ...

The new state law, passed in 2023, requires jurisdictions to allow small subdivisions of four or fewer lots to be carved up into as many as nine separate buildable “unit lots.” Homes on the small unit ...

Okanogan County is still waiting for about $1.4 million from the federal Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program, after the appropriation was stripped out of Congress’ reconciliation bill at the end of ...

The federal government released more than $280 million in firefighting funding last week, including $20 million for Washington state.

TwispWorks is not the first valley nonprofit to find itself at a meaningful juncture. But the Methow has a long history of ...

“Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person’s property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.” This is a quote from the Roman poet Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Ovid does not address, ...

Started by watercolorist Patty Yates, the Wednesday Watercolor Group of local women has grown to encompass artists of all ...