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TL;DR: Traveling on a long road trip might lead to some heavy eyelids. When you need to pull over for a power nap, these are your safest bets. There's nothing worse than traveling on the road and then a huge wave of sleepiness hits you, especially when you're far from home and don't have a friend's place to crash. Where can you legally sleep in your car in Washington?

If your Labor Day weekend felt shorter than you wanted, you're not alone. Plenty of people padded that holiday with a day or two of PTO and turned it into a real break. Claire Tobin, CEO of adventure travel company Wild Frontiers, says the smartest travelers aren't the ones hunting for cheap flights — they're the ones working the calendar months in advance, before a single vacation day gets used. Her math is almost hard to believe.

The Wenatchee Wild kick off their fourth WHL season Saturday night at 6 p.m., hosting the Seattle Thunderbirds at Town Toyota Center. We're giving away four free four-packs of tickets to the Wolves Den for the occasion, and entering only takes a minute. Opening night carries extra weight this year.

The Wenatchee detachment of the Washington State Patrol and the Douglas County Sheriff's Department conducted an emphasis patrol on State Route 2/97 over Labor Day weekend that resulted in almost 500 traffic stops and 3 DUI arrests. The goal was designed to increase visibility, make traffic stops, and promote public safety along State Route 2/97 in Douglas County.

The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks open the 2026 NFL regular season tonight with a rematch from Super Bowl 60 with the New England Patriots. The Hawks trounced the Pats 29-13 to hoist the Lombardi Trophy last season. This is just the third time in league history that a Super Bowl rematch will serve as the regular season opener. KPQAM560 and FM101.7 have the live coverage starting at 3pm Wednesday.

It's going on right now. Large spiders in the Pacific Northwest are looking for love inside your house. It's that late summer, early fall season when large spiders get tired of hanging out in dark corners and they come out in the open looking for a mate. According to seattletimes.com, ‘It’s giant house spider season again — that magical stretch of late summer when adult males abandon their dark corners and begin crawling through Pacific Northwest homes in search of females. They are not hunting you.

A Kittitas County man is behind bars after police say he attacked someone with a knife during a domestic dispute before staging a brief standoff with law enforcement on Tuesday night.

Anne Bonny, who is nicknamed Bonny at the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society (WVHS), is a sweet Lab mix who is about 9 months old and looking for a loving family who will believe in her and give her the time she needs to feel safe and thrive. Bonny is blind, but it doesn't stop her from being a puppy. She has so much love to give and is ready to form a special bond with someone who helps her navigate the world around her. Anne Bonny is brave, resilient, and ready for her next great adventure.

Four people are in jail, including two juveniles, following a robbery and assault, and the discovery of illegal firearms in Moses Lake on Monday morning. The Moses Lake Police Department says officers responded to reports of a juvenile male who'd been robbed and assaulted by several suspects near East 7th Avenue and South Balsam Street, and identified a nearby apartment complex where the suspects were believed to be hiding.

Police in Grant County are continuing their search for a missing Moses Lake man who's feared to have drowned in an irrigation canal over Labor Day Weekend. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says at around 1 p.m. on Saturday (Sept. 5), an employee with the Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District called 9-1-1 to report finding an unoccupied pickup truck with its motor running near the 23000 block of Pinto Ridge Road Northeast just west of Stratford.