Crime

Drunken or other impaired driving this holiday season will be met with a strong and determined police presence. In a press release sent by the Washington State Patrol, this holiday season will see many emphasis patrols around the state funded by the Washington State Traffic Commission...

It is no secret that when it comes to federal gang funding a majority of the money goes to large cities but Yakima city officials have been demanding that more of that federal money come to smaller cities.

Yakima County Sheriff's Deputies say a man who was wanted in connection with a deadly bar shooting in Wapato last week is behind bars. Juan Carlos Rodriguez, a 25-year-old from Wapato, turned himself in to deputies Tuesday night. He has been booked into the Yakima County Jail on murder charges...

Authorities began a murder investigation Monday after a body was found in a remote part of Wapato this weekend. A couple of hunters found the remains of 29-year-old Omar Alberto Vargas-Cortez on Sunday outside Wapato. The coroner has ruled the death a homicide...

Police are looking for two people who committed two separate carjackings Tuesday in Yakima.

A Yakima County nurse could have his license taken away by state health officials. Adam Archibald is a nurse who works under contract at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. He is currently suspended from practicing medicine. State health officials say Archibald stole drugs from work and over the course of four years drugged and sexually assaulted a female patient at the hospital...

The Yakima Police Department says that the incident Tuesday evening on West Yakima Avenue could be related to another carjacking that took place earlier in the day.

The senator said she wrote the language into the bill to make sure that communities like Yakima will get the federal help they need to fight gang activity.

Seven people were arrested during protests in Seattle over recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers who killed young black men in Missouri and New York.

A California man who told central Washington residents that God taught him how to construct a laser that cured cancer will spend two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to medical fraud. 67-year-old Edward J. Brown was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Spokane...