Yakima County News

Police are investigating the death of a two-year-old Grandview boy. The Yakima County Coroner told KNDO it may be suspicious.

The Yakima County Coroner's Office completes the autopsy on the woman who police say was shot to death by a hitch hiker she picked up.

Oscar Garcia, a 16-year-old Yakima boy shot in the head earlier this month in a drive-by, died early Saturday.

A woman accused of killing her lover and leaving her body inside the trunk of a car in Yakima, pleaded guilty today in Yakima County Superior Court.

SELAH, Wash. - A Montana woman shot in the head on Interstate 82 early this morning is not expected to survive, Yakima County sheriff's detectives say.

Torie Harding, left, wipes ice cream off the face of her daughter, Elizabeth, 3. Harding lives with her kids in transitional housing, a program that she decided to participate in rather than facing jail time for a probation violation.

A 29-year-old man admitted Monday that he fatally shot a 19-year-old Yakima man at a Terrace Heights party early Sunday, Yakima County sheriff's detectives said.

Fireworks are banned throughout most of Yakima County but not on tribal lands and that means good business this week at tribal fireworks stands.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Sunday's Shooting in Terrace Heights is the 12th homicide in Yakima County this year.

A man and boy are dead in the crash of a single-engine plane carrying three people near Rimrock Lake in Yakima County.

Yakima, wash. -- A 27-year-old Yakima man was stabbed at a party in Naches early Sunday morning.

A tragic accident east of Toppenish Friday night ends with an eight-month-old baby dead.

A few homes were evacuated Wednesday when a brush fire broke out in the Tampico area.

GRANDVIEW, Wash. -- Authorities arrested a Grandview teenager they say was an accomplice to a June 10 drive-by shooting that injured a rival gang member.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A woman charged as a result of a 2008 car crash in which her 3-year-old daughter died has been sentenced to prison.

Authorities are warning Central Washington residents to follow fireworks rules as the summer heat dries out forests and lowland brush.

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.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The death of a 2-year-old girl at her Yakima home remains undetermined following an autopsy that concluded this afternoon.

Firefighters have knocked down promblematic wildland and timber fires that started earlier today in the Gleed area and West Valley.

OUTLOOK, Wash. -- A haystack containing an estimated 700 tons of hay is burning this morning on Dekker Road, north of Outlook.