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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) - Food and yard wastes and sewer biosolids from Seattle could be composted at an industrial-size operation east of Ellensburg. Representatives of PacificClean Environmental of Spokane said Tuesday they have asked Kittitas County to consider leasing 120 acres at the Ryegrass Facility, a 640-acre county-owned section that includes a construction debris landfill and a septic pu

Update: The bones were not of the missing boy The mother of a missing Kittitas Boy has hired a private investigative team to help crack a cold case and on Monday several bones were located that could belong to 9-year-old Cody Haynes. Haynes had been living with his father, his father's girlfriend and four of his sisters at the time he went missing in September of 2004...

Matt Fairbank has settled a lot of disputes in the Yakima Valley. Fairbank is The Executive Director of The Dispute Resolution Center of Yakima and Kittitas counties. Fairbank says the center handles everything from simple neighborhood problems to family disputes and he says they have been very successful with an 85 to 90 percent success rate...

With the end of the 2013 regular session in Olympia, Rep. Matt Manweller has opened a 13th District legislative office in Ellensburg. Manweller’s new office will be located in the Sun Lake Business Park next to the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic. It ...

A recently released health ranking paints a poor picture for those living in Yakima County. Of the 39 counties in the state, Yakima came in 35th in this year's health rankings. The annual report, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, takes several different factors into account...

Bail has been set at $2 million dollars for a man arrested in the murder of two people found in the backseat and trunk of a car in Kittitas County on Dec. 21st of last year. Capt. Rod Light says officers arrested 41-year-old Troy Whalen at a Yakima home Wednesday on two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Ryan Pederson and Michael Eby.

This is a tough flu season. New numbers show it is especially bad in Kittitas County. In the past month, Kittitas Valley Community Hospital has seen 120 cases of flu. That is a record number. Doctors say many people are not taking the measures they need to in order to stay healthy...

Rep. Matt Manweller has drafted a bill that would allow, but not require, the Kittitas County TV Reception Improvement District to provide an excise tax exemption to television owners receiving satellite television service. Currently there is a $30 per-household tax on over-the-air television in Kittitas County...

A clean criminal record, some ink on the fingers and a little cash. That’s all you need if applying for a concealed weapons permit. Yakima Police say a lot of people are doing that these days. According to our news partner KIMA Action News Yakima Police averaged about 60 applications a month during the summer...

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — State Rep. Bill Hinkle has resigned his House seat, and his elected successor may take office weeks earlier than expected. The Daily Record says Hinkle, who has served in the state Legislature since 2002, announced his resignation in a press release Friday...