Buena News

BUENA, Wash.- Six people are in the hospital tonight after their home burst into flames.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Yakima County firefighters have put out more than 100 fires since fire season started in May.

Catholic Charities Housing Services will celebrate the completion of a new soccer field and playground in Buena on Saturday.

Six people were treated for unknown injuries after a house fire Monday afternoon in the 800 block of Buena Road, officials said.

A lower Yakima Valley brother and sister have been charged with aggravated first-degree murder in an apparent gang-related double killing.

Mike Vargas and his daughter, Dominique, 7, pick up rocks from the field that will soon be a park in the Buena Nueva community in Buena on Sunday, March 8, 2009.

Dick Carpenter, age 87, passed away March 5, 2009 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

A brother and sister are jailed in Yakima for investigation of murder in the shooting deaths of 2 men in Toppenish.

A shooting suspect's sister faces a first court appearance this afternoon in connection with the deaths of two gang members in Toppenish last week.

Opening arguements start today in a Yakima rape case. Back in 2007, two women say they were raped when they went looking for orchard work.

Crying and at times covering her face with her hands, the woman on the witness stand described how she pleaded with her attacker to let her go.

Teacher Nan Ide laughs with Elizabeth Alvarez, 8, during an after-school tutoring program at the Buena library on Dec.

Authorities are urging Lower Valley motorists to use caution this morning because of dense fog and icy roads.

One man was taken to a hospital with burns and about 90 workers were evacuated after a brief electrical fire today at a cold storage plant.

Last week a Yakima councilman wanted two ex-council members removed as candidates to succeed Councilman Norm Johnson, and on Tuesday they fired back.

Prosecutors have filed multiple felony charges against a Buena man accused of causing a fatal car crash on Thanksgiving and then fleeing the scene.