Tieton News

Students who need extra help in math and reading might be able to receive free tutoring through Advantage Point Learning.

The Tieton Intermediate School Parent Association is holding its annual fundraiser on Saturday.

The Forest Service is in trouble for a controlled burn that filled the Yakima Valley with thick smoke for five hours in late September.

This editorial appears in the Nov. 5, 2009, Yakima Herald-Republic. Where there's smoke, there should be fire.

The Tieton City Council has scheduled a special meeting to consider whether the town's budget can absorb pay raises for several employees.

The Yakima Regional Clean Air Authority wants someone to answer for some breathing problems residents experienced late September.

The first day of elk hunting season didn't go well for a 68-year-old Colfax man.

The following transactions were recorded in July. Selah Residential property at 1702 W. Naches Ave., Selah, sold by Johnson Rental Properties, to Michael Monsen, $225,600. Residential property at 304 Hillview Ave., Selah, sold by Fred Wickholm, to Donald Rosio, $230,000. Residential property at 31 Hovde Lane, Selah, sold by Ronald Berry, to Terry ...

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 election is three weeks away and your ballot should be in the mail by the end of the week.

The glaciers and peaks of Washington's Goat Rocks reflect in the inaptly named Warm Lake in the wilderness area's alpine meadows.

NACHES, Wash. - The 700-acre Twin Peaks fire burning in the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area should be contained by this evening, Forest Service officials say.

Four representatives of groups pushing for better oversight of Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse held a protest Thursday in front of the Diocese of Yakima.

Washington grower-shippers expect good apple size and quality fruit. The Aug. 1 estimate of the fresh packout of Washington apples was 107 million cartons, down slightly from the 2008 fresh crop of 109 million cartons.

The Yakima-Morelia Sister City Association is sending a truckload of medical supplies, firefighter training gear and wheelchairs to the capital of Michoacn, local officials said.

Donations were down. Need was up. So La Casa Hogar turned somewhere new for help: The very people it strives to serve.

Fire specialists plan to ignite about 4,500 acres of forest land west of Yakima today in an effort to promote long-term forest health.

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Tieton Drive has been reopened after a house fire forced a two-hour shutdown of the busy Yakima street.