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Dispute leads Yakima to limit annexations
Major residential development in West Valley will all but cease under a new Yakima city policy that makes it tougher for developers to get sewer hookups outside city limits.
Do We Have Enough to Keep Teens Out of Trouble?
Being the parent of a teen in this day and age presents a maze of challenges. You want to know who their with, where they go, and what they do, when your eyes are not on them.
Naches utility rates expected to increase in 2010
Utility rates are expected to increase next year under the budget plan developed by the Naches Town Council.
Tamales mix tradition with fun
Esther Raab doesn't want the younger ones to lose touch with their roots. So, as they knead masa with their bare hands in large, stainless steel mixing bowls, she tells them, "Really get in there, girls." She wants them to continue a tradition that was carried across a border and passed from one generation to another, a tradition that ties them to ...
Use that mountain of leaves to enrich, protect garden
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.
NEW Yakima Valley Farm Workers buys land in Terrace Heights
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.
Preliminary county budget passes; layoffs imminent
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.
Snow?! Yep, but just a dusting
YAKIMA, Wash. - The season's first snow dusted the lowlands of the Yakima Valley today.
Likable Cawley deserves another term on council
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.
Local landfills to raise rates by 14 percent in 2010
Landfill fees to dispose of household garbage will rise by 14 percent in 2010 under a proposal before county commissioners.
Small community water systems can be big expense for state
Don Foster would gladly connect his Terrace Heights home to Yakima County's water system.
Biosolids have Moxee residents upset
The city of Yakima has been transforming human waste into fertilizer-grade biosolids at its sewage treatment plant for years.
Shooting suspect caught in Yakima
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.
Sawmill Property Redevelopment Moves Forward
Yakima moves forward with getting the former Boise sawmill property ready for development.
Yakima Transit expands bus line to Terrace Heights
The Terrace Heights area is growing, a new university, new businesses and now a new bus line.
Mountain biker found dead near Yakima
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.