Kittitas County News

A Kittitas County resident has been fined for changing the channel of Manastash Creek and causing extensive damage to the shoreline and creek bed on property northwest of the creek at Brown Road.

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office is currently looking for man who became separated from a group of snowmobilers in the Reecer Creek area southwest of Ellensburg.

It's more than half-a-million dollars worth of damage that can't be fixed until Emergency Funding comes through from the state.

An Ellensburg man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly beating his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son several times over the past two weeks.

On January 31, 2012 the Ellensburg Police Department learned that two children, ages four and eight, had been assaulted by their mother's boyfriend.

Kittitas County is dropping three existing positions because of budget constraints.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the SWAT officers were called to serve the high-risk search warrant after the man had been reported shooting at neighbors earlier in the day.

Spokane County is testing a GPS-based system that lets the public know which roads have been plowed during and after snow storms.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- It's only a little more than a month until Republicans hold their March 3 caucuses, but local party members still aren't sure who to favor.

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to Tapachula on the border with Guatemala.

Seven semi trucks, along with a Washington State Patrol car, were involved in a multiple-vehicle collision on westbound Interstate 90 near milepost 74, blocking the freeway for about seven hours Thursday, according to the state Dept.

Authorities say they've transferred the leader of a Russian father-son cyber ID theft team to New York to face trial.

Beginning Spanish lessons begin today . They are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. from Jan.

About a half hour following the report, a Kittitas County Sheriff's Deputy spotted a flatbed truck heading west on the Vantage Highway with the headlights off.

Weather Service issues advisory for mountain passes - up to 11 inches of snow predicted about 10 p.m. tonight.