Wapato News

They're bucking the trend. While other growers take a hit, mint is bursting. The crop is exploding right now.

Action News is naming names. We're looking at which businesses are selling booze to minors and we also found out which county has the most violations.

Lower Valley firefighters wrapped up their Independence Day weekend by fighting a brush fire that briefly edged near the Yakama Nation transportation department's vehicle yard at the end of Elm Street in White Swan.

It's a delicate balance. Help the homeless -- without hurting local businesses. Turn the corner of second street in Wapato, and Yakima County's homeless problem becomes crystal clear.

Instead of having a family barbecue and watching fireworks on the Fourth of July, Sergio Cervantes of Grandview was C) heading back to join his National Guard unit in Iraq 11.

The cherry picking season is in full swing, and Rosedale owner Bill Reeves expects this year's crop to be especially good.

Winning $100,000 may not be huge by lottery standards, but it will certainly help a Wapato couple faced with medical bills.

Yakima's newest lottery winners collected their prize Tuesday morning. The jackpot may not be the tens of millions some winners take home.

A Wapato family is still staying in a hotel after a fire badly damaged their home a few days ago.

A Wapato family is homeless Wednesday after a grass fire gets out of control. Firefighters got the call to South Street around 12:15 p.m. about a grass fire that had spread to a car.

Micheala Hansen completes the finising touches to her fish painting before letting it dry on the line during an ArtsVan event in 2004.

A truck hit a man Monday night, leaving him in the hospital and investigators on the hunt for the vehicle that left him there.

A century ago, Motokichi Hirahara left his home on the southern coast of Japan for the fertile soil of the Lower Valley, where he began growing watermelons, cantaloupes and vegetables near Wapato.

Two people safely escaped their burning trailer today. It happened around noon, along Egan Road in Wapato.

WAPATO, Wash. - One side of a Wapato-area duplex was extensively damaged by fire Monday afternoon.

Police are continuing to hunt for the driver of a small black pickup who hit a 43-year-old pedestrian Monday evening on State Route 97 near Wapato.

A serious-injury crash has closed southbound Highway 97 at Wapato. The crash was reported about 8:30 p.m. near Progressive Road, south of Wapato.

Detectives say the man found dead near Harrah yesterday was not a homicide victim and that the man shot himself.

An autopsy left unclear the circumstances leading to the death of a 20-year-old Wapato man whose body was found in a hop field Wednesday morning.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The people on the bus go "Hooray, hooray, hooray!" That's because three students are regional winners in the annual Educational Service District 105 School Bus Poster Contest.