Union Gap News

Union Gap police is one of the agencies helping to enforce the county's fireworks ban on non-tribal members.

In a time when, basically, everything seems bleak, when gas and food prices are soaring, the country remains at war overseas and your 4-year-old even knows the phrase "sub-prime mortgage crisis," folks are ...

Concerned about public safety, potential fires and complaints from residents, Yakima County authorities are cracking down on illegal use of fireworks on parts of the Yakama reservation.

A Yakima church is sponsoring a 48-hour rocking chair challenge to raise money for the children of two Yakima Valley men who were killed in the Iraq war.

Congressman Doc Hastings is talking about gas prices. Hastings stopped by several Yakima businesses this morning.

Andrew Hoge and Jessica Miller are two students who have added a whole new tint to the term "summer job." They are painting houses this summer -- but not with their own hands.

Elodio Rizo was arraigned Wednesday for shoplifting, then shooting at security guards.

Somebody stole their sign, but that won't stop Yakima County's fireworks task force from telling folks to follow the rules.

Graffiti Gone, a Yakima-based graffiti cleaning company, has been removing taggings from neighborhoods in Union Gap for the past two weeks.

Fireworks are legal in a handful of Yakima Valley towns. But local ordinances limit hours of sales and discharge of fireworks within each town, so be sure to check with local authorities whose phones numbers ...

Day two of the Western R.V. auction took place at the former Ace Hardware building off River Road.

For over a year the Yakima Urban Area Regional Planning Commision has been reworking zoning ordinances.

Union Gap city leaders and others broke ground on phase three of expanding Valley Mall Boulevard.

Atop a Union Gap fire truck, from left, Evan Cruz, 7, Joshua Yamane, 9, Gabrielle Martin, 8, Joseph Martin, 1, and Sara Martin wait for the Old Town Days Parade to begin on Saturday, June 21, 2008.

Stephen Smith is greeted by his grandmother, Julie Cruz, after Union Gap School graduation Wednesday, June 19, 2008.

It's a weekend full of events for Old Town Days. This is video of their parade this morning Smokey the Bear was on hand, the royal courts from Selah to Grandview and you gotta have tons of tractors.

Meet Timothy Mcferrin and Brandon Cagle. Two contestants determined to be the next American Idol .

It's the first day of summer and the beginning of firework season. The Yakima County Sheriff has a warning tonight for people thinking of putting on their own fireworks display.

In honor of Union Gap's 125th birthday, visitors and locals alike are invited to the Old Town Days celebration this weekend.

One of the largest public works projects in the Yakima Valley was officially launched Tuesday with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by about 50 people.