White Swan News

An anti-illegal-immigration initiative failed to make the state election ballot again this year, falling thousands of petition signatures short of the requirement.

After about four hours Sunday, approximately 90 firefighters contained a fire that burned a stretch of sagebrush, cottonwoods and a few outbuildings.

The fifth annual Festival of Flowers takes place in Yakima this weekend. The two-day flower fest, sponsored by Banner Bank, started Friday and continues today.

New dorms are unveiled at Fort Simcoe Job Corps. The Job Corps helps young people prepare for a better future.

Jonetta Everano's gamble to start her own company has paid off with a subcontract worth up to $4.2 million with Washington Closure Hanford.

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Three people were wounded in a shooting at a party in the Brownstown area early Sunday, authorities said.

Buck Lunak, John Solais and AJ St. Goddard joke behind the bucking shoots after competing in the bareback event during the Annual Yakama Treaty Days All-Indian Rodeo at the White Swan rodeo grounds Sunday, June 7, 2009.

The F.B.I. are searching for suspects after a shooting sends three people to the hospital.

DNA evidence has led to the arrest a man authorities believe fled the scene of a fatal one-car accident in November near White Swan.

A parade, powwow and salmon bake are among events on tap this weekend commemorating the 1855 Yakama Treaty.

Spc. Samuel Stone, a Washington Army National Guardsman assigned to the Bremerton-based C Company, 1st Battalion, 303rd Cavalry, was killed in Iraq early Sunday morning when his armored security vehicle rolled over while he was on a convoy security mission.

A Level 3 sex offender has notified authorities of his new address in the White Swan area.

It was hard for Toppenish teachers to understand why a funeral could keep Yakama Nation students away from school for a week.

Health services at the Yakama Nation will receive a new ambulance and new x-ray and air-conditioning systems, thanks to $500 million in federal Indian Health funds being distributed nationwide.

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When Teri Edwards and Serena Thompson wrote their cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen , the two left a few things out of their recipes.

This year, both of Julia Hill's pigs made it past the weigh-in at the Central Washington Junior Livestock Show.

Schoolchildren have been lining up at the chainlink fence during recess for several weeks now.

The wood steeple of Wilbur Memorial United Methodist Church has long stood watch above this small unincorporated community deep in the Yakama reservation.