Yakima News

A retired Yakima doctor went missing in a downtown Kiev park Tuesday while on a trip to the Ukraine to help set up a lifestyle center for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Yakima Herald reports. 

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The City of Yakima proposed an "Assigned Police Vehicle Program" expansion of 74 vehicles to add to the current 60 assigned vehicles to police command staff and officers in specialty positions.

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You know the expression “You can pay me now or you can PAY me later”?  Well, it seems that’s true in relationships too.  For example, if you're angry at him for leaving dirty dishes in the sink, the experts say to speak up. If you're upset with her for ignoring you at the end of a long day, let her know…or else!  Or else you risk preventing the battle but losing the war …and the marriage!

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Your Pride and Joy graduates from college in a week or two.  Then it’s off on the job hunt to join the real world.  Just don’t let them make these real world mistakes!

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Yakima Regional Hospital nurses have launched an advertising campaign which attacks the company which owns the hospital.  The nurses claim that Health Management Associates that cutbacks hurt patient safety

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Saturday is the 33rd anniversary of the Mount Saint Helens eruption.

Seismologists say ever since the big eruption the volcano has been relatively quiet. Seismologist Seth Moran at the Cascades Volcano Observatory says that’s not an indication that something isn’t happening below the mountain

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The government wants to drop the blood alcohol limit for being legally drunk in order to avoid drunk driving fatalities.

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YAKIMA, Wash.-- It's no secret that thieves will strike if given the opportunity. This week, a Yakima family says their home became a target. But the only thing taken, was the one item that hurt the most, a little girl's wheelchair.

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An autopsy shows that the body of a woman found in an abandoned house in 600 block of North 4th Avenue earlier this week had been shot in the head. The body was discovered Wednesday by a neighbor investigating a foul odor

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CHINOOK PASS – Crews are gearing up to reopen Chinook Pass on Friday, May 17. It’s fairly safe to say drivers can make travel plans over State Route 410 this weekend.

Washington State Department of Transportation maintenance crews will reopen the east gate to Chinook Pass at Morse Creek, five miles east of the summit at 10 a

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