Yakima News

A shootout left two bank robbery suspects dead and two police officers wounded Thursday in suburban Denver, police said.

The parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly raped by four boys have been arrested on felony child abuse charges.

West Nile virus has sickened 36 people in Washington so far this year, including nine people in Benton County.

Fifty-seven gang-involved fugitives were taken off Tri-City streets this week during a three-day gang sweep, authorities said.

The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

A Yakima police officer is recovering after being knocked unconscious as he struggled with a suspect in a speeding truck.

An off-duty Las Vegas police officer killed in a shootout with intruders in his own garage grew up in Yakima.

Even a toothbrush is cause for excitement. Then, throw in a box of crayons, a rubber ball and some lollipops, and there's absolute joy.

An unusual crash sent two to the hospital Thursday night, including a Yakima cop.

Yakima police chief, Sam Granato; as controversial as he has been effective. When Granato arrived 6 years ago, our persistent gang problem became his top priority.

In a time when hundreds of people fall behind on paying their power bills, payment plans are becoming more popular.

The Miss Yakima County and Yakima County's Outstanding Teen pageants are seeking contestants through the end of the year.

Jenifer Wilde, a radio DJ with 92.9 The Bull, is the latest casualty in a string of cuts at Gap West Broadcasting.

The city of Yakima is planning to separate Lincoln Avenue from railroad traffic by building grade separations.

At her last meeting as a member of the Yakima City Council, Sonia Rodriguez got a shout-out from the fire chief and saw her fellow council members agree to continue working on a gang-free initiative she proposed.

YAKIMA, Wash.- The economy is putting pressure on many businesses, but for Yakima's Grocery Outlet, that's not the case.

It's Green Week on NBC with environmentally themed programming on the network each day as efforts to "go green" are happening locally as well.

They are mean streets for Yakima's youngest citizens. Each day and every night, our most impressionable generation is forced to witness the violence, and the consequences of gang warfare.

First grade teacher Luz Corona helps student Narciso Sepulveda through a grammar lesson Tuesday, Nov.

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.