Naches News

Susan La Riviere's latest Yakima Valley novel, "The Brothers," brings us the latest adventure from the Gunderson family out in Naches.

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.

Earlier this week the state Department of Transportation opened an alternate path around the landslide that buried a half-mile stretch of State Route 410.

NACHES, Wash. - U.S. Highway 12 will be closed tonight to allow for safe blasting of rock cliffs over the roadway.

Yakima county roads are proving to be much deadlier than last year. One of the worst car accidents happened this summer.

Prompted by rapidly rising water in the Naches River, Yakima County was preparing to divert the river to a new channel around the Nile landslide Monday evening.

State Rep. Norm Johnson's sup-port of a domestic-partner benefits bill earlier this year turned some of his fellow Republicans against him and has a local woman thinking of challenging him in next year's election.

Naches is already a great place, but more could be done and relationships between various entities could be improved with better communication and coordination.

Service group representatives and residents in Naches are holding a meeting Thursday to seek ways to improve communication and cooperation.

Utility rates are expected to increase next year under the budget plan developed by the Naches Town Council.

Mary and Steve Smith look at what's visible of the remains of their home in the NIle Valley Thursday, Nov.

A three-judge state appeals panel has upheld Yakima County's decision to spend more than $700,000 to move Douglas Auto Wrecking from an island in the Yakima River to a site along the Yakima Valley Highway.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has issued an Emergency Order to Suspend Surface Mining for a mine located where the Nile landslide happened .

Nothing is as it was just three weeks ago along this stretch of Nile Road. Certainly not State Route 410 or the Naches River.

It's hard to picture a bigger landslide than the one that buried a quarter-mile of Highway 410 in Yakima County this month.

Relatives are organizing a fundraiser for a longtime Naches school employee who is fighting leukemia.

As soon as she was blindfolded, Lorie Morris felt isolated. She couldn't see who was sitting next to her at the dinner table.

Residents in the area around a landslide in central Washington that wiped out portions of a highway are being told to stock up just in case they become isolated for long periods.

A massive landslide on Nile Loop Road just east of Yakima got a thorough inspection from Governor Christine Gregoire on Saturday afternoon.

Washington's Department of Natural Resources warned a Naches gravel pit four years ago that its operations might be destabilizing a portion of the slope that collapsed onto Highway 410 this week.