Cowiche News

In a journey that already connects to a deep sense of community and spirituality, the Tribal Canoe Journey that stops in Port Townsend today connects another group even more.

Yakima County sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help in locating a despondent man who may have traveled into remote country outside of Tampico.

Wildland firefighters are expected to continue arriving today to reinforce crews fighting a 70-acre forest fire in rugged country west of Tampico.

Another claim of sexual abuse by a member of the Catholic Diocese of Yakima has been reported.

Updated: The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is, once again, trying to get signatures for an initiative that would require state and local agencies to boost their immigration enforcement efforts.

Sarah Casey who was only 27-years-old when she died on May 16th. In her last months, she often talked with her friend Amanda Shipman about things in life she'd never got to do.

Volunteers begin the first steps of renovating the Cowiche Youth Park in memory of a local woman who died of breast cancer.

A Tieton man accused of viewing child pornography while he was studying to be a Catholic priest in Oregon is scheduled to enter a plea next month.

Sandra Ayala is graduating from West Valley High School tonight and plans to continue her education at Central Washington University.

Nancy Richardson works on a cover letter for a job application at WorkSource Thursday, May 29, 2008.

Cowichan school trustees should spend less time politicizing and more time focusing on student achievement, says a provincially appointed special adviser.

Protesters are demanding better treatment for Lyme disease sufferers as a young Duncan woman remains hospitalized from the tick-borne disease.

Yakima County regulators and a large orchard owner are in a stare-down over the county's demand that a permit be obtained for the extensive excavation of earth from a hill overlooking Cowiche Canyon.

“Instead of handling one box at a time and doing it three or four times before we got to the warehouse, we were handling pallets of 48 boxes at once”

Fred Maloney makes drawings as he figures out the design for a reverse steering gear on a tractor. via Yakima Herald-Republic

“That's what we want: We want to minimize disturbance and allow those animals to renew their energy reserves.”

With the Stuart Range as a backdrop, an elk passes through snow near the Joe Watt Canyon feed site in the L.T. Murray Wildlife Area in January 2005. via Yakima Herald-Republic

“He lived there with the Jesuits, but he didn't have much to do with the parish people”

A national advocacy group for victims of clergy sexual abuse is challenging the Catholic Diocese of Yakima to do more to find if there are other victims. via Yakima Herald-Republic

“As more and more growers use it and word gets around, they'll get more confident about the program”

Salvador Hernandez places his just-picked bag of apples into a bin as he and others harvest apples in a west Yakima orchard in this file photo. via Yakima Herald-Republic

“The beautiful thing about the green concept is the greener you get, the less it costs to operate”

When Cathy Goshorn and her husband remodeled their Yakima home they used environmentally friendly products. via Yakima Herald-Republic

“They cut through the parking lot and walk this way.”

Branden walks by this canal to and from school everyday but it wasn't until his family says he was pushed in that they realized how dangerous this canal can be. via KEPR 19

“It's always been a passion, especially since I have a son in Iraq and a son-in-law just back from Iraq”

Yakima County has hired retired Army First Sgt. David Brown as its first full-time veterans coordinator to work with poor, homeless and incarcerated veterans. via Yakima Herald-Republic