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900 firefighters battling the Taylor Bridge Fire are making progress. Containment is now at 25 percent. Published reports say full containment could be expected within five to seven days. Meetings took place Wednesday to help those affected by the Taylor Bridge Fire...

If you are looking to help and donate in this great cause, here is the information that can help you: The Holiday Inn in Ellensburg at 1620 Canyon Road is currently taking material donations for all fire victims on behalf of American Red Cross...

Firefighters continue to battle the Taylor Bridge fire burned across more than 40 square miles and now at 10 percent containment. Investigators are confident that it started a bridge construction site on Taylor Road in Cle Elum. The cause is still unknown and currently under investigation...

A gate sealed tight surrounds the building halfway through a $1.4 million dollar remodeling project in Kittitas County. It's future is now uncertain. Our news partner KIMA Action News reports the Spokane-based construction company, Skyline contractors, walked off the job days ago, citing safety concerns...

Close to a thousand more people were out of work last month in Yakima County compared to April. The Employment Security Department released figures that reported Yakima County's jobless rate for May was 10.8 percent, up nearly a half point...

Whooping cough continues to be a problem in Eastern and Central Washington. There are now 10 confirmed and 13 probable cases of pertussis this year in Kittitas County. The most recent confirmed case was a student at Cle Elum Roslyn Elementary...

A Kittitas County resident has been fined for changing the channel of Manastash Creek and causing extensive damage to the shoreline and creek bed on property northwest of the creek at Brown Road. Trees and other vegetation were removed from 700 feet of the shoreline, and the course of the creek was repositioned approximately 25 feet to the south without proper permits from county, state and

Two people are under arrest the Ellensburg Police Department learned that two children, ages four and eight, had been assaulted by their mother’s boyfriend. The children suffered injuries so severe and traumatic that they were transferred from KVCH to Harbor View Hospital in Seattle, the 4 year old girl was airlifted with possible internal bleeding and the 8 year old was transported by KVFR