Naches News

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.

Dustin Shafer, come on down! A 2006 graduate of Naches Valley High School and an assistant football coach at Highland, Shafer is a contestant on this morning's episode of the long-running CBS game show "The Price Is Right." The show, which airs locally at 10 a.m. on KIMA was originally taped mid-July. "It's so loud in there," said Shafer, who is a ...

An emergency Nile Loop Road route around the landslide closure on Highway 410 near Naches, Yakima County, is open to all traffic, and a "residents only" restriction has been lifted.

About $2 million in federal and state money is being made available for new road construction and flood control after portions of a highway were wiped out by a landslide in central Washington.

The federal government is releasing $1 million in emergency relief to speed repairs to portions of a highway wiped out by a landslide in central Washington.

Work on a temporary route through the Nile Valley for residents cut off by Sunday's landslide should be done by the end of today, officials said.

Gov. Chris Gregoire says that federal disaster assistance will not help people who have lost their homes or may yet lose their homes to a massive landslide near Naches.

Sandra Wommock was just down the road from the massive slab of earth that slid through homes, roads and a river on Sunday.

Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to tour the Naches landslide on Saturday. Gregoire will fly by helicopter over the slide that blocked State Route 410 and diverted the Naches River, then will be briefed on repair efforts at Naches Middle School.

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

A landslide has shut down a 47 mile stretch of State Routte 410 between Mount Rainier National Park's Lake Tipsoo and the junction with US 12, five miles west of Naches, according to the Department of Transportation.