U.S. Highway 2

Nearly two dozen roads in the Upper Columbia Basin have been closed due to flooding. Persistent rain over the region in recent days has led to the rapid melting of snowfall on many fields which has caused many roadside canals and ditches to overflow their banks...

Eight people have injuries following a two-vehicle collision near Stevens Pass on Friday evening. The Washington State Patrol says it occurred at around 6:45 p.m. on U.S. Highway 2 about three miles east of Coles Corner, when an SUV driven by 49-year-old Jennifer L...

A fifteen-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 2 (U.S. 2) near Leavenworth will be closed next Wednesday (Sept. 25). The Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) is shutting down the roadway through Tumwater Canyon so it can perform pre-winter maintenance...

Two people have injuries following a two-vehicle accident in Chelan County Thursday (Dec. 28) morning. The Washington State Patrol (WSP) reports the collision occurred on U.S. Highway 2 at Alice Avenue just west of Dryden at around 9:30 a...

A Mansfield man is in jail after police in Lincoln County say he led them on a vehicle pursuit through miles of wheat fields on Wednesday afternoon. Deputies spotted 41-year-old Joseph Lee Cooper driving a pickup truck that had been reported stolen out of Chelan and the chase began on U...

The Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) says travel on U.S. Highway 2 through the Leavenworth area will be slower than usual during the first three weekends of December. DOT spokesperson, Lauren Loebsack, says the slowdowns will be caused by the town's annual Village of Lights celebration...

It was a slippery commute for motorists on U.S. Highway 2 near Cashmere this morning (Thursday, Nov. 9). Freezing temperatures in the region caused ice to form on the roadway, and that contributed to four separate accidents within a half-an-hour that temporarily shutdown the westbound lanes of the highway just before 7 a...

The Washington Department of Transportation (DOT) is expecting another busy year on the state's roadways for Labor Day Weekend. "As you might guess, the traffic will be quite heavy on Thursday and Friday headed east, says DOT spokesperson Lauren Loebsack...

Emergency repairs are now underway on a three-mile section of U.S. Highway 2 approximately 19 miles east of Waterville. The Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced they have retained Hurst Construction, LLC of East Wenatchee to handle the project, which began Thursday morning (July 20). ...

A portion of U.S. Highways 2 & 97 have been memorialized as the World War II Veterans Memorial Highway. Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) spokesperson Lauren Loebsack says the honorific stretch of highway is between the Odabashian Bridge north of Wenatchee and the Beebe Bridge near Chelan Falls. ...