Cowiche News

For two long years, insufferable pain had tormented Maria Luisa Castillo. She had lost her teenage son, Rolando, who was hit by a stray bullet intended for someone else, and was mad at the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint, for not sparing her from loss.

A Tieton man was listed in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Monday after authorities said he caused a three-vehicle crash Sunday evening on Summitview Avenue.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Good Samaritans are the first to respond to the scene of a fiery Four car collision in Yakima.

Four people are injured in a explosive head on collision on Summitview Avenue Sunday night.

After being without a board of commissioners since last spring, the Cowiche Sewer District has two commissioners back on board.

Paul Beveridge's Wilridge Vineyard grows organic grapes along the top of Cowiche Canyon, seen in the background.

The Highland School District's elementary school has received national recognition for improving students' reading ability.

Officials in Tieton want their small town to be seen as a viable place for doing business and spending money.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In some local races, the Yakima Herald-Republic posed questions to candidates about their positions on key issues in their communities.

YAKIMA, Wash. - The season's first snow dusted the lowlands of the Yakima Valley today.

Because smoke is in the air, discontent was in the wind. By Wednesday morning, the day after Forest Service fire management experts began igniting 4,500 forested acres at the west end of Bethel Ridge, the phones were lighting up with complaints to the Naches Ranger Station, air-quality experts and local media.

Labor Day Weekend is one of the busiest of the summer for area wineries. Economic concerns and rainy weather could've corked the festivities.

Since no one is running for 12 elected positions in Yakima County, a special three-day filing period will open Wednesday.

Three candidates -- Craig Chronister, John Kobli and Mary O'Dell -- are vying to become the newest commissioner on the board for Yakima County Fire District 1. The top two vote-getters in the Aug.

The city of Tieton is moving to take over operation of the Cowiche sewer plant as soon as the next few weeks.

When the commissioners in charge of the Cowiche Sewage treatment plant retired, they left the district with no decision makers.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recently acquired 201 acres of what had been privately owned land near the Cowiche unit of the Oak Creek Wildlife Area.

Three candidates -- Craig Chronister, John Kobli and Mary O'Dell -- are vying to become the newest commissioner on the board for Yakima County Fire District 1. The top two vote-getters in the Aug.

The city of Tieton is moving to take over operation of the Cowiche sewer plant as soon as the next few weeks.

When Bardow Lewis was a youngster, there was no paddle journey. "When I was a kid you couldn't find a canoe," said the Suquamish Tribal Council member Monday, watching as a flotilla of about 100 traditional cedar canoes pulled into the Suquamish waterfront.