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Inslee has announced he wants legislation in 2024 targeting oil companies he says are taking advantage of Washington residents.

The new work group is scheduled to make its first annual report by July 2024.

A previous attempt by lawmakers failed on the House floor just hours before the regular session adjourned April 23rd.

Yakima City Council member Matthew Brown says city officials are also researching and talking about enacting local laws.

The Yakima Health District has lifted the public health emergency declaration after the Governor set October 31 as the day he's lifting the Washington State state of emergency because of COVID-19

The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service launched a new Export Sales Reporting and Maintenance System. Which requires U.S. exporters to report any sales transactions with buyers outside the U.S. for many key commodities.

Senator Curtis King of Yakima says he doesn't support Governor Jay Inslee's plan to ban the sale of all gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

During the height of the pandemic the rate of infection was 500 to 700 cases per 100,000.

On Friday the statewide outdoor mask mandate for large events was dropped.

The advent of memes on social media are the perfect vehicle for "Negative Nellies" to perpetuate the notion that Yakima is a meth-addled crap hole.