That places Yakima County as the second highest in Washington State for overdose deaths per capita. 32 people have died of overdoses so far this year in Yakima County. May 11-17 is National Prevention ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima County Republican Central Committee is seeking qualified candidates to fill the Yakima County Coroner position recently vacated by the resignation of Jim Curtice. Three ...

Yakima County joins five other counties in Washington that have implemented similar programs. Since the first nurse navigation system launched in the state in 2022, more than 30,000 cases have been ...

Israel Barriga-Vargas, 21, has been booked into the Yakima County jail on a $500,000 warrant ... from the U.S. Marshal’s Service, the state Department of Corrections, sheriff’s office and ...

YAKIMA, Wash. – The Yakima County Republican Central Committee is searching for qualified candidates to fill the County Coroner position, recently vacated by Jim Curtice. According to Yakima ...

Years of litigation and successive droughts brought irrigation districts, environmental organizations, the Yakama Nation, and federal, state, county, and city governments to the table to form the ...

GRANT COUNTY — A ... three handguns. The Yakima LEAD Task Force, Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Program, Homeland Security Investigations and the Washington National Guard ...

The Yakima Basin is home to 400,000 people and a $4.5 billion agriculture industry ... The Kachess Drought Relief Pumping Plant that would access stored water to meet irrigation water needs only ...

The revenue proposals come as the state is facing a projected $16 billion budget deficit.

A state-run facility ... proposed closing the Rainier and Yakima Valley facilities as part of his 2025-27 budget, and said the closures would continue “Washington’s movement away from facility ...

Tornadoes, wildfires, tropical cyclones and sea level rise are all on the list of dangers made worse by climate change.

The disappearance of Washington state teenager Esmerelda “Kit” Mora ... A few years later, Kit joined them at their home in Yakima. “We had been trying to get Kit in our care for a couple ...