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This November, the Yakima public will be able to vote on whether or not there should be a charter amendment in the city constitution that sets aside $750,000 per year for the city's parks. In one way, it would guarantee that the city's parks could always be improved and nothing would stop Yakima from getting great outdoor options...

I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to chat with some of the people who are vacating their current seats, leaving them open them open for election.

Ballots for levies and bonds affecting area school districts are due next Tuesday.

A Selah grocery store remains temporarily closed due to asbestos.

Yakima has become the second city in the state, and third local government, to adopt a higher threshold to increase local taxes.

A Washington state ballot measure requiring mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods is failing in early returns.

The county auditor is reminding citzens that the November ballot is due in the Yakima County Auditors office Tuesday.

Yakima Police are investigating a fatal stabbing this morning. Officers were called to a tire store in the 1400 block of South First St. for a car in the building. When they arrived they found the car inside the building with a man inside who had been stabbed multiple times. The 21-year-old victim was taken to a Yakima hospital where he died. Police say he was likely stabbed in a parking lot on t

The Government Affairs Committee of the Greater Yakima Chamber of Commerce will be holding a debate Tuesday, Oct. 22 regarding Prop 1.

The Washington Policy Center has checked out Yakima's Prop 1 on the November ballot and has found it is a reasonable taxpayer protection policy.