Terrace Heights News

Care to take a guess of how much the leaves weigh that Yakima residents send to the Terrace Heights Landfill each fall? A hundred tons? Or maybe five times that amount? Actually, 224 tons of leaves were collected last year, and at least that amount will be sent to the landfill this fall.

The Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic has purchased 3.39 acres near the new medical college in Terrace Heights with an eye toward building a new clinic in the next several years.

The city of Yakima has pulled the plug on a proposed deal with two local farms that drew public opposition for its use of treated human waste as fertilizer.

A $3.1 million gap between declining revenues and growing expenses must be closed before Yakima County commissioners adopt a 2010 operating budget next month, a budget that is certain to include employee layoffs.

YAKIMA, Wash. - The season's first snow dusted the lowlands of the Yakima Valley today.

This editorial appears in the Oct. 13, 2009, Yakima Herald-Republic. The race between incumbent Micah Cawley and Mary Place for a seat on the Yakima City Council is unusual for this fact: Neither has ever lost.

A garbage shortage may have you paying more at the dump. At the Terrace Heights Landfill, customers are streaming in, but the trash isn't piling up like it used to.

Landfill fees to dispose of household garbage will rise by 14 percent in 2010 under a proposal before county commissioners.

Don Foster would gladly connect his Terrace Heights home to Yakima County's water system.

The city of Yakima has been transforming human waste into fertilizer-grade biosolids at its sewage treatment plant for years.

A 24-year-old man accused of shooting at a car outside a Jack in the Box was arrested early Sunday after a short pursuit.

Tanner Gronowski works out at works out at YAC Fitness in Terrace Heights. He gets a free membership to the gym through the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, where he's a student, and says working out helps him relieve the stress of studying.

Yakima moves forward with getting the former Boise sawmill property ready for development.

The Terrace Heights area is growing, a new university, new businesses and now a new bus line.

A mountain biker has been found dead at the bottom of a canyon east of Yakima, and authorities say there is no indication of foul play.

A 42-year-old Yakima man was killed in a mountain biking accident in the Terrace Heights area today, Yakima County sheriff's deputies said.

The owners of a landmark restaurant near Moxee wonder why none of the firefighters who were eating hamburgers at the Silver Dollar Cafe told them it was at risk.

The owners of a landmark restaurant near Moxee wonder why none of the firefighters who were eating hamburgers at the Silver Dollar Cafe on Friday told them it was at risk.

Authorities said the Bothell woman who drove her car into some Terrace Heights condos in June will be charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment.

A wildfire raging across Central Washington has claimed 40,000 acres, a manufactured home and a rural icon as of Saturday evening.