On Wednesday Wapato City Council members gave the go ahead to city leaders to settle lawsuits and tort claims and they also called for a freeze in hiring and expenses.
The council cut positions like the city administrator and took a unanimous vote of no confidence in the mayor. The council also decided on a new twice a month meeting schedule.
After Orozco resigned Wapato council member Dora Alvarez-Roa was sworn in as the new mayor. But then after she was sworn-in as the new Mayor Alvarez-Roa then appointed Orozco as the new Wapato City Administrator
AP-Wapato officials say they'll try to do something about a home surrounded by gang violence that has taken three lives in five years.
The latest shooting Sunday killed 19-year-old Abel Velazquez and wounded a 17-year-old and a 26-year-old man...
New rules on adult entertainment were recently put in place in Yakima. Now, Wapato officials realize the same entertainment could be happening in their city with little limitation. A bar owner recently approached council to find out what the city's rules are on adult dancers...
Residents of Wapato are a step closer to paying a little more for road improvements. A twenty dollar fee for car tabs could be added. Wapato city leaders decided the transportation benefit area and will start a detailed plan on how the money will be used to improve the streets...
The City of Wapato, Washington will pay a fine for excess pollution discharges from its municipal sewage treatment facility in violation of its Clean Water Act permit, according to an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...