Yakima News

The earliest U.S. census numbers show that about eight percent of Yakima County residents were Mexican-American in 1965, but numbers from back then didn't differentiate between Anglos and Hispanics.

There will be fighting in the streets Friday night in Yakima. The city has granted permits to close a block-long stretch of Yakima Avenue to allow a fighting cage to be set up for about a dozen amateur bouts.

A 19-year-old Prosser man is in custody after a drive-by shooting early this morning in north central Yakima that sent a victim to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.

She nearly died at the hands of a drunk driver. Now, neither she, nor her friend will ever be the same.

Jim Hebert, a longtime insurance agent in Wenatchee who grew up in Yakima, waited three or four years before he told anyone about his bigfoot sighting while on vacation in Yellowstone National Park in 1994.

Eastbound lanes of Interstate 84 are closed at Troutdale, east of Portland, due to the crash of an asphalt truck driven by a Yakima man, Oregon State Police said this morning.

The Manastash Ridge Trail will reopen Wednesday after a brush fire forced authorities to close it since Monday, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

Local R&B musician Wayman Chapman spent Tuesday morning watching the Michael Jackson memorial on TV and remembering the few times over the past 30 years that his life crossed paths with the Jackson family.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Yakima's Historic District is getting a new piece of art. This decision comes after tonight's city council meeting was packed with people waiting to hear about the controversial proposal.

She may have resigned from the Detroit City Council after pleading guilty to bribery, but Monica Conyers still bills her call-in television show "Ask the Councilwoman with Monica Conyers." Conyers said during her weekly program on Highland Park's WHPR-TV she's "still the councilwoman" and has no plans to quit the show.

YAKIMA, Wash. - Cherry growers in three West Coast states will be able to ship sweet cherries to Japan more cheaply because of a change in the country's pest control requirements for imports of the fruit.

Following his public memorial service, Michael Jackson's casket was whisked away from Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Construction will start in October on an underpass on Lincoln Avenue, a multi-million-dollar effort to deal with expected increases in railroad traffic through the city of Yakima.

For Immediate Release: September 3, 2003 Additional tests show Yakima area man does not have West Nile virus illness Still no confirmed human cases acquired in Washington Olympia 3 4 Follow-up testing by the Department of Health laboratory and negative test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Yakima County man in his ...

Anti-tax initiative guru and Yakima native Tim Eyman is asking the Yakima City Council and county commissioners for an audience on his latest ballot measure.

It's easy to see them in alleys, streets, and even lawns instead of the store where they belong.

The Yemen news agency reports that a barber has been publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an 11-year-old boy who came to his shop for a haircut.

A woman accused of killing her lover and leaving her body inside the trunk of a car in Yakima, pleaded guilty today in Yakima County Superior Court.

A regional Mexican supermarket chain has plans to build a new retail area next to its East Yakima store.

Violence wracked two insurgent strongholds in Iraq, leaving dozens injured and two dead.