Mabton News

The state auditor's office says the mayor of Mabton, a small town in southeastern Washington, doesn't understand her role.

MABTON, Wash.- The state audited the City of Mabton with four findings, showing more than $500,000 of debt, much of which the mayor is being held responsible for.

A busy mosquito season is bad for your health and also bad for the budget. Just how busy is it? The numbers prove the point, this time last year we didn't have one positive case of West Nile virus.

The Benton County Mosquito Control District plans to do aerial spraying for mosquitoes over Mabton and rural areas near Prosser, Grandview and West Richland starting about 9 p.m. today.

The Benton County Mosquito Control District will use trucks to spray for mosquitoes in southwest neighborhoods of West Richland and throughout Mabton starting about 9 p.m. tonight, if weather permits.

A teacher from Walla Walla is being honored with the National Federation of the Blind's distinguished educator award.

To Aurelio Rodriguez and Nikki Holly Palomarez of Yakima, a daughter, Nevaeh Marie Rodriguez, 6 pounds, 9 ounces, at 11:51 p.m., on June 11, 2009.

Jesus Sanchez stands in a hop yard near the Toppenish home where he grew up. Sanchez, now the operations manager for the city of Shoreline, is among the first group of Mexican-Americans who went to college in the state.

This short-staffed city in the middle of a hiring freeze has turned to an old friend for help.

This little town is down to only one full-time police officer and lacks a clerk treasurer in the middle of a hiring freeze.

Action News has confirmed the problem of mosquitoes in the Lower Valley is real and we've uncovered why it may not be going away.

A Mabton man was killed Saturday night on Wilson Highway in Grandview after his motorcycle was hit by a pickup that didn't yield while turning, the Washington State Patrol reported.

A 75-year-old Kennewick man and two Sunnyside residents were critically injured this morning in a head-on collision in the Lower Yakima Valley.

PROSSER, Wash. -- Aerial spraying to control mosquitoes potentially carrying the West Nile Virus will be conducted this evening in parts of the Lower Valley, an official of the Benton County Mosquito Control Board said this morning.

You can hear them coming from what seems like miles away. To many, it's nostalgic.

If Mabton High School senior Arturo Nuez goes back to picking fruit and vegetables, it won't be because he has to.

The Mabton VFW Post will hold a Memorial Day service at 11 a.m. at Mabton Cemetery.

Alicia Bauguess might have had one of the best seats in the house. From her chair atop the bed of a pick-up in her driveway near the corner of South First Street and Valleyview Avenue, she could see each float and marching band go past in the annual Selah Days parade Saturday.

Like nearly every other school district in the state, Toppenish has struggled to cope with its share of an $800 million cut in public school funds.

Police have arrested five people they say are responsible for a rash of vehicle prowls in Lower Valley towns.