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A Telephone Town Hall is set for Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. and it's being conducted by Yakima Valley lawmakers House Reps. Bruce Chandler and David Taylor. You are invited to get involved by calling 509-378-3074

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GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — The National Weather Service office in Seattle says it will send a team Monday or Tuesday to look for damage at Gig Harbor and determine whether a wind event Sunday afternoon was a tornado

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It's a very important weekend as Seahawks fans prepare for a big matchup against the Packers Sunday.

Seahawk fans all have different ways of showing their 12th Man pride. Some even like to show it off all over their cars, and Monster Graphics is one of the only places in our area where you can get huge, life-size car decals for your ride

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The Washington state Department of Health says an outbreak of listeria that has killed one person originated from a Yakima cheese maker.

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While no major race problems exist in yakima many other parts of the country deal with race problems on a daily basis. Steve Mitchell credits local officials and police agencies for being leaders in the community and keeping the lines of communication open

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A 60-year-old man arrested this week in the 1997 shooting death of his wife is expected to face a charge of first-degree murder when he appears in a Yakima County Superior Court room on Friday.

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The city of Yakima is getting closer to selling 4 former Tiger Marts in the city that have been closed for years. City Manager Tony O'Rourke says city crews and the Department of Ecology have been busy with environmental restoration and clean up of the sites that were closed years ago because of leaking fuel tanks

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee radio station is saying "no to Seattle" until after the Packers-Seahawks NFC Championship Game on Sunday.

For now, WLWK-FM says it is banning all Seattle artists from its airwaves

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Yakima County Sheriff’s detectives continue to investigate the murder of Jose Silva.  Yakima SO detectives are actively seeking and ask your help in locating 26-year-old Juan Diego Ortiz of Yakima. Ortiz is wanted for murder and should be considered armed and dangerous

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SEATTLE (AP) — Forecasters say a storm blowing into Washington Thursday night and Friday will bring rain to western Washington and snow to the mountains. It also will bring snow or freezing rain to parts of eastern Washington that will persist through the weekend

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