Wapato News

The cherry picking season is in full swing, and Rosedale owner Bill Reeves expects this year's crop to be especially good.

Winning $100,000 may not be huge by lottery standards, but it will certainly help a Wapato couple faced with medical bills.

Yakima's newest lottery winners collected their prize Tuesday morning. The jackpot may not be the tens of millions some winners take home.

A Wapato family is still staying in a hotel after a fire badly damaged their home a few days ago.

A Wapato family is homeless Wednesday after a grass fire gets out of control. Firefighters got the call to South Street around 12:15 p.m. about a grass fire that had spread to a car.

Micheala Hansen completes the finising touches to her fish painting before letting it dry on the line during an ArtsVan event in 2004.

A truck hit a man Monday night, leaving him in the hospital and investigators on the hunt for the vehicle that left him there.

A century ago, Motokichi Hirahara left his home on the southern coast of Japan for the fertile soil of the Lower Valley, where he began growing watermelons, cantaloupes and vegetables near Wapato.

Two people safely escaped their burning trailer today. It happened around noon, along Egan Road in Wapato.

WAPATO, Wash. - One side of a Wapato-area duplex was extensively damaged by fire Monday afternoon.

Police are continuing to hunt for the driver of a small black pickup who hit a 43-year-old pedestrian Monday evening on State Route 97 near Wapato.

A serious-injury crash has closed southbound Highway 97 at Wapato. The crash was reported about 8:30 p.m. near Progressive Road, south of Wapato.

Detectives say the man found dead near Harrah yesterday was not a homicide victim and that the man shot himself.

An autopsy left unclear the circumstances leading to the death of a 20-year-old Wapato man whose body was found in a hop field Wednesday morning.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The people on the bus go "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" That's because three students are regional winners in the annual Educational Service District 105 School Bus Poster Contest.

Less than an hour before the ceremony, Wapato senior class president Micah Garza, center, and his cousin, ASB president Kenny Garza try to deside which song should be played as graduated seniors leave Wapato High School's graduation Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at the SunDome in Yakima, Wash.

A man is found shot to death near Harrah this morning, detectives still don't know if it's a homicide or suicide.

Valerie Sampson hands a bag filled with bottles of beer to her friend, William Olney while walking along North Track Road in Wapato, Wash.

Since late April, there have been at least a dozen reported shootings across the Yakima Valley.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A special filing period has been established for the 12 Yakima County elected positions that so far have failed to attract any candidates.