yakima county commissioners

The Yakima County Commissioners approved an agreement Tuesday, establishing new court protocols with the county's judges. . For months now, Court Consultants and County Commissioners have been discussing ways to improve their working relationship so they can avoid the problems that are currently plaguing another Washington county...

The Yakima County Commissioners Tuesday voted to increase fees for developers for processing building applications and other land uses. The commissioners raised the fees upwards of 85 percent. They also agreed to review the increases in six months to see if they need to be adjusted...

In Yakima County, it is now illegal to camp or store supplies on county owned property including areas near the Naches River on the greenway. Today, the county commissioners enacted an ordinance to help stop homeless camps that pose safety and health risks...

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...

Costs continue to rise as city and county officials look for solutions to housing local prisoners. Today, a joint city/county study session was held to address the problem. A number of ideas were talked about including the possibility of having one regional jail instead of one in the city and one in the county...

Both city and county officials in Yakima are looking for cheaper ways to house local prisoners. The Yakima City Council today will hold a study session with county officials to talk about housing more city prisoners in the county jail or expand the current city jail...

3 important lawsuit settlements were approved by the Yakima County Commissioners Tuesday for a total of 252 thousand dollars. The largest involved the alleged wrongful arrest of a Wapato teen who's family filed a 3 million dollar claim against the county...

With the sales tax proposal in the county suffering a defeat, county commissioners are ready to move forward with option number two: shifting money from the county's road fund to the general fund. It would raise the same amount of money: $3 million per year to pay for jail security upgrades and cover payments of a 2010 bond; However, many would still pay more under this plan...

Next Wednesday thousands of ballots will be sent to county voters asking if they’ll support a proposed tenth-of-a-cent sales tax increase that would raise $2.8-million per year to pay off bond debt and fund security upgrades at the county jail...

County commissioners decided Tuesday to move forward with a project to improve safety on 29 of the county's deadliest roads. Rural roads in Yakima County are among the most dangerous in the state; engineers say there were 26 fatal accidents last year alone...