Moxee News

With high fuel prices and the nation's economy in peril, Yakima Valley food banks are seeing more and more customers coming through their doors.

Might want to skip lunch today to save some room. West Valley Missionary Church is hosting a chili cook-off, chili pepper eating contest and pie-eating contest this afternoon.

Doc Hastings vote Monday on a proposed bill to provide $700 billion to bail out Wall Street and the nation's financial system? D) no way 5. Sunnyside native Scott Linehan lost his job this week as C) coach of ...

Moxee hop grower Leslie Roy, right, inspects the color of one of the 13 entries in the Fresh Hop Ale Festival contest.

A judge questioned Friday why the Moxee City Council didn't listen to hearing tapes or read a transcript before deciding to deny a controversial plant that turns waste tires into usable products.

Jurors will resume deliberations in a Moxee man's vehicular homicide trial after considering their verdict for more than five hours Wednesday.

Jurors in a vehicular homicide trial in Yakima heard more about a rollover accident that killed a Moxee man last year.

A forensic pathologist testified Monday that a Yakima man's injuries were consistent with the rollover crash that investigators believe killed him.

A family of five escapes an early-morning house fire in Moxee, but their family dog wasn't as fortunate.

Yakima's Hilton Garden Inn is one of Joe Morrier's projects. From left, Yakima City Manager Dick Zais, Yakima Mall owner Joe Morrier and Yakima City Councilman Neil McClure pause for a moment beneath a ramp ...

There's an interesting exercise in grass-roots democracy going on in Terrace Heights as residents there deal with a newsletter that asks their opinions on far-reaching proposals for the area's future.

Now that Terrace Heights boasts a new health sciences university, some residents suspect their community could be a target for annexation.

GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic Rod Giles, lead guitarist of the Rod Giles Band, plays "Stormy Monday Blues" at this summer's Moxee Hop Festival.

Another grape-growing family has made the transition to winery owner and will homestead at the Port of Benton's Vintner's Village.

Ralph Olson, general manager and part owner of Hopunion CBS LLC in Yakima, and Mike Rowe, host for the Discovery Channel's show, "Dirty Jobs." Links Comments The job may not have been all that messy, but that ...

Ysmael Ornelas, who works for Morton and Sons, unloads two cords of wood, which cost almost $400 for a customer on Saturday, August 23, 2008.

A Walla Walla and a Sunnyside driver were among six people injured in a five-vehicle pileup today near Yakima.

Sgt. Joseph Bixler says it feels like he just got back from Iraq. In 2 days the Moxee resident will leave for his second tour of duty with the 81st Brigade.

The East Valley Fire Department hopes to interest a few more residents in volunteering.

A local fruit company, Roy Farms of Moxee, has agreed to pay a fine of $29,320 for not having a safety program to protect the public in the event of a release of anhydrous ammonia.