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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A Yakima County land-use official is holding up plans by the sheriff's office to build a new shooting range. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that Hearing Examiner Gary Cuillier on Friday rejected an environmental review for the shooting range, saying potentially adverse environmental impacts, such as noise, were not considered when county planners recommended approval... Re

Yakima County Sheriff Ken Irwin Tuesday awarded the medal of valor to Deputy Jason Conger for actions Conger took in a 2011 shooting in the Selah area.  Irwin says Conger was one of a number of authorities who responded to the shooting at a home on Speyers road...

An 18 year old man is dead after being shot by officers at a home in Selah last night. Officers responded to the home in the 39 hundred block of Speyers Road after being told the man was shooting at people inside the house. County Sheriff Ken Irwin says the suspect fired at the first officers on the scene and that's when the Yakima Police Departments' SWAT Team was called to the scene...