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Yakima County is willing to give its split share of the airport to the city. Officials on both sides admit the airport would not succeed without a sole owner. Yakima City manager, Tony O'Rourke, says revitalizing the airport could put Yakima on the map

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Thieves are making off with thousands of dollars in alcohol from Yakima store shelves this month. It is a troubling trend that developed after the new alcohol law took effect. Our news partner KIMA Action News re

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It's starting in the Yakima valley and across the state. The flu season, and Maryanne Patnode with the Yakima County Health District says while the numbers are high in the Eastern U.S. that's not the case here in the West

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Marcel Maldonado, 21, of Grandview, wanted for two carjackings, a robbery and a high-speed chase has been arrested in Colorado after a high-speed chase. Maldonado stole a Volkswagen Jetta at gunpoint at a rest stop near Selah last Monday

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Budget cuts in the county mean layoffs at the Yakima County Jail. Nine officers and two administrators were laid off this month. The cuts were made to help fill a million dollar shortfall in the jail budget

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While the numbers have slowed whooping cough is still a big problem in Yakima county and across the state. Marianne Patnode with the Yakima county health district says the push to vaccinate against the disease did help slow down the number of cases being reported this past summer and now in this fall

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Chairman of the Yakima County Republican Party, Max Golladay was guest on Wednesday's Mike Bastinelli show.

Golladay talked about election results nationally, statewide, and locally, and about why he thinks that Yakima County remains a Reublican county in a largely Democratic state

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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

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It was the plea deal that shocked Yakima; a year and a half after three people were found brutally beaten to death it their West Valley home, prosecutors decided they did not have the evidence to convict their prime suspect Kevin Harper

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Voters in Yakima County are taking their time. About 29 percent of the 105,000 ballots have been returned to the auditor's office as of today. Yakima County Auditor Corky Mattingly says more ballots are coming in as we get closer to the election

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