Yakima County News

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A 50-year-old Wapato man has been charged in a string of White Swan arsons that occurred last month.

Yakima county prosecutors are investigating if two men suspected of shooting at police last night are also involved in a convenience store robbery in Wapato.

YAKIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE NEWS RELEASE. On May 30 at about 2300 hrs a robbery was reported at the Roadrunner in the 700 block of W. 1st Street in Wapato.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A recently filed lawsuit involving a Yakima man at the center of a barrage of financial allegations on the Internet sheds little new light on what's become a matter of intense speculation.

Yakima County is moving forward with turning an old jail into office space for county agencies.

The defense called its last witness Wednesday in the appeal of Taylor's one-year suspension.

Several people finally got paid for gold they sold to a gold-buying business that came to Yakima last month.

League of Women Voters of Yakima County - - Redistricting Forum, noon to 1 p.m., ESD 105, Kittitas Room, 33 S. Second Ave., Yakima.

The San Juan Preservation Trust's aquisition of the 687-acre Red Mill Farm on San Juan Island, the l... No one was injured when a small plane piloted by a Kirkland man veered off the runway during a landi... David Kelly has formally announced his resignation as San Juan County's Deputy Director of Administration, effective June 29, 2012.

Today is the first day on the job for the new director of the Yakima County Health District.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A brush fire that threatened five homes in the Terrace Heights area Monday was accidental, according to the Yakima County Fire Marshal's Office.

YAKIMA, Wash.-- An arrest has been made in connection to a string of arson fires in White Swan earlier this month.

Herbert "Chief" Rice, serving two life sentences for murder, has a hug for Ali Max White, 2, as she and her family help inmates carry on the powwow tradition behind bars.

Glenwood Square was one of the first places I visited when I moved to Yakima more than six years ago.

After Moxee Police officers took a 15-year-old runaway into protective custody, they learned the teen and another 13-year-old kid had been given methamphetamine and marijuana by their guardians.

A Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman says a man, a woman and a dog were rescued from a sinking sailboat near Mukilteo, Wash.

HELP PROTECT CHILDREN: CASA volunteers are needed to protect the rights of children in the court system.

Note of Joy Christian Center welcomes The Williams Family from Reedsport, Ore., on Sunday.

Here are Yakima County's Most wanted suspects as determined by local and state police agencies.

On Thursday May 24, 2012 Jose A. Ayala 22 YOA was extradited from Mexico by US Marshals and handed over to Yakima Police Detectives at SeaTac International Airport.