April 4, 2013 Welcome to the tourism season in the Yakima Valley. It is an industry that brings in millions of dollars and employs thousands of people in the Yakima County. Katie Heaverlo is Director of Tourism for the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau who says besides the wine and sunshine visitors come to the valley for the agriculture and the chance to pick fresh fruit
SEATTLE (AP) — A new provision could allow employers to ask for a worker's Facebook or other social media password during company investigations. The provision is a proposed amendment for a bill that bars employers from asking for social media credentials during job interviews. The
SEATTLE (AP) — The man who is trying to bring the NBA's Sacramento Kings to Seattle says fans have requested 44,000 season tickets in the event the team actually relocates. Hedge fund manager Chris Hansen had urged Seattle fans to join a "priority ticket waitlist" to show the NBA how strong support is for bringing professional men's basketball back to the city and calls the result "nothing short of stunning
NACHES, Wash. (AP) — State and federal biologists plan to euthanize wild bighorn sheep in the Naches area to curb the spread of a deadly pneumonia outbreak.
Richard Harris of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says biologists will spend the next several weeks removing sheep from the Tieton herd, about 10 miles west of Naches
SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities have completed evacuations of 34 homes that were damaged, isolated or threatened by a mudslide early Wednesday about 50 miles north of Seattle in Puget Sound.
Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue Chief Ed Hartin says a man escaped from one home that was knocked off its foundation, and he was evacuated by a rescue crew in an all-terrain vehicle
March 27, 2013
After a three-month break for weather, crews will resume work on a US 97 wildlife connectivity project on Monday, April 1.
