Yakima County News

A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.

WAPATO, Wash. -- A 55-year-old Wapato man was found fatally shot in his car at a rural intersection southeast of Wapato.

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

The Eastern Washington 2010 Census Office is offering something that Yakima desperately needs right now, jobs.

With metal theft on the rise, local scrap yards are scrutinizing a lot more of the things being brought in.

Because of thefts from remodeling work at the old West Valley High School building at Yakima, security guards were hired to spend the night.

The Yakima County jail echoes with slamming steel doors and yelling prisoners as a federal agent sits down behind a computer with a list of inmates to interview.

Governor Gegoire is making a request for Federal Ad to help businesses affected by last month's landslide.

After more than a week of counting, 2 of Yakima County's election races are still undecided.

If you haven't received your seasonal flu shot yet, it might be too late. Employees at the Yakima County Health District say all supplies of the seasonal flu vaccine have been exhausted.

Yakima County sheriff's deputies are looking for three people suspected in robbing a cemetery of 217 brass vases worth around $106,000. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the three people attempted to sell what looked like destroyed vases to a local junk yard.

The Yakima County Sheriff's Office is searching for three suspects after a large number of brass vases were stolen from a cemetery.

When Mark came into Rosemary Luce's life a few years ago as a foster child, he didn't talk.

Drunk drivers has cops busy all over Yakima County. It has the courts even busier, and it seems like the same faces keep coming back.

A jury found a former Wapato teacher accused of raping one of his fifth-grade students not guilty Thursday on the three of five sex charges.

Sunnyside Police and the Yakima County Violent Crimes Task Force arrest 20-year-old Ramon Verduzco in connection with an assault that happened on November 4th.

YAKIMA, Wash.- For many house members, this weekend was an exciting step forward.

Steve Smith will never forget the sound. Standing behind his house at the bottom of a steep slope, he heard muffled thunder and cracking in the hillside.

Yakima County commissioners are seeking state and federal assistance to help pay for damage caused by the Nile Valley landslide.

PROSSER, Wash. - A 20-year-old Grandview woman was killed in an accident on Interstate 82 near Prosser early this morning when a pickup crossed over into the wrong lane of traffic and drove into her car.