Yakima News

A Yakima police officer is recovering after being knocked unconscious as he struggled with a suspect in a speeding truck.

An off-duty Las Vegas police officer killed in a shootout with intruders in his own garage grew up in Yakima.

Even a toothbrush is cause for excitement. Then, throw in a box of crayons, a rubber ball and some lollipops, and there's absolute joy.

An unusual crash sent two to the hospital Thursday night, including a Yakima cop.

Yakima police chief, Sam Granato; as controversial as he has been effective. When Granato arrived 6 years ago, our persistent gang problem became his top priority.

In a time when hundreds of people fall behind on paying their power bills, payment plans are becoming more popular.

The Miss Yakima County and Yakima County's Outstanding Teen pageants are seeking contestants through the end of the year.

Jenifer Wilde, a radio DJ with 92.9 The Bull, is the latest casualty in a string of cuts at Gap West Broadcasting.

The city of Yakima is planning to separate Lincoln Avenue from railroad traffic by building grade separations.

At her last meeting as a member of the Yakima City Council, Sonia Rodriguez got a shout-out from the fire chief and saw her fellow council members agree to continue working on a gang-free initiative she proposed.

YAKIMA, Wash.- The economy is putting pressure on many businesses, but for Yakima's Grocery Outlet, that's not the case.

It's Green Week on NBC with environmentally themed programming on the network each day as efforts to "go green" are happening locally as well.

They are mean streets for Yakima's youngest citizens. Each day and every night, our most impressionable generation is forced to witness the violence, and the consequences of gang warfare.

First grade teacher Luz Corona helps student Narciso Sepulveda through a grammar lesson Tuesday, Nov.

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.

Do you have a 4-year degree and are you interested in changing careers to become a teacher? Then consider the Alternative Route to Teacher Certification program, which offers a fast-track option that can allow you to become certified in just one year to become a teacher in high-need subject areas.

It could be the most important coverage you ever buy.You could be the safest driver in the world, but if an uninsured driver hits you, you're still stuck.

Like a lot of freshmen, Taylor Judd is living in the dorms and getting used to college.

A ferry carrying nearly 200 passengers sank after colliding with an oil barge in a river in Myanmar, killing at least eight and leaving more than three dozen missing, officials said Monday.

Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.