Thorp News

On our way to the Washington Tilth Producers Conference in Yakima, a sign on the freeway beckoned us to explore.

As the John Wayne Pioneer Trail leaves the high Cascades and heads southeast from Cle Elum, it enters the Upper Yakima River Canyon.

The swift-water rescue team of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office pulled five people from the Yakima River at about 4 p.m. Sunday after the rafts they were floating in were swept into a log jam and capsized, said Undersheriff Clay Myers.

Cascade Community Wind Company LLC, of Bellingham, has completed its first community-supported wind turbine in Washington state.