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The WSDA is preparing a proposed plan for the spring to eradicate the invasive Japanese beetles found in Central Washington in and around Grandview last year.

Calling all writers! Flex those skills and enter by the deadline with your short stories and poetry!

U.S. red meat exports raced to a record performance in March with pork and beef exports each posting the highest monthly value ever, reaching a combined total of nearly $1.6 billion.

If you have never been to the Yakima Taco Fest before, here's what basically happens: You buy a ticket, they give you a wristband and some food truck and drink ticket script, and then you walk around until you find a taco truck you like and stand in line (could be for hours, just saying) to buy samples of a delicious variety of tacos. There will be and cornhole boards, lively Mexican bands, and lots of dancing, so bring your boogie shoes!

More than two dozen worksites in the city of Yakima could be back up and running by the end of the week.

Don't expect all this snow to go away anytime soon.

As Yakima's ESPN Radio affiliate, 1460 AM KUTI will again be broadcasting some of the Yakima Valley and Central Washington’s most intriguing prep varsity football matchups.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Police say Ku Klux Klan fliers have been found on lawns and driveways in the central Washington city of Ellensburg. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports three residents reported finding the leaflets last week. Police say the fliers were left in rock-filled bags that appeared to be thrown on to resident's lawns and driveways at random...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Residents have been allowed to return to their residences after a wildfire prompted the evacuation of about two dozen homes in central Washington. A fire spokesman, Trooper Jeff Sevigney, says the blaze about 7 miles north of Moses Lake burned less land than initially thought but destroyed two homes and six outbuildings...

Thousands of people from throughout Central Washington participated in the annual May Day march in Yakima on Wednesday. Yakima Police say the crowd was much larger than last year estimated at between 15 hundred and 5 thousand people. The march started at Miller park...