rand elliot

After years of being in a financial slump, the Yakima County now has some extra money for departments. The county has an extra $1.5 million that they didn't expect to have at the end of 2012. Commissioners said the extra money came from huge increases in sales tax revenue and income from election services...

Yakima County is renting beds at the county jail again. It is been years since the bed rental business fell off and left the county without needed funding. But Tuesday the county approved a 7 hundred thousand dollar contract with the city of Fife to house its inmates beginning next month...

Both the city and county of Yakima agreed to share expenses to start development on the old mill site. The plan calls for building a new freeway lane and interchange to handle the traffic. Cars would have better access to the mill site and Terrace Heights...