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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been ordered to pay the Yakama Nation for costs related to cleaning up a contaminated island in Washington's Columbia River. The Yakima Herald reports that the Yakama Nation sued the Corps in 2014, arguing that tribal members weren't compensated for helping plan the cleanup of Bradford Island. ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The Yakama Nation is seeking $65.5 million in damages from the Klickitat Public Utility District for a 2013 wildfire that burned almost 20,000 acres of tribal timber land. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that the state says the utility is at fault because its power lines set the blaze. But...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a case over whether a Washington tribe's treaty rights should exempt a tribal member's cigarette business from paying state tobacco fees.

The Yakama Nation will welcome Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, as Honorary Grand Marshal of the Yakama Nation Treaty Day Parade on June 6.

The federal government has agreed to notify Yakama tribal police before executing search and arrest warrants against tribal members on tribal land. A federal raid on a tobacco company owned and operated by a Yakama tribal member in White Swan sparked outrage in 2011, when federal authorities took computers, records and other documents from the business...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Central Washington's agricultural Yakima River Basin is getting some attention from Gov. Jay Inslee's first proposal to the state Legislature. The bill would require the state to begin implementing a long-term plan for improving water supplies in a region where periodic droughts reduce stream flows for farmers, communities and threatened fish...

(AP) A company building a natural gas pipeline across southwest Washington's White Salmon River says construction will be completed this month, even as a Native American tribe seeks a halt to the project. The Yakama Nation claims the pipeline will hurt a culturally significant archaeological site...

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to experience living history at the ninth annual Heritage Days at Sacajawea State Park in Pasco. The event is Sept. 28 and 29 at Sacajawea State Park, 2503 Sacajawea Park Road in Pasco...

It's out of the way location makes it one of Washington's least visited state parks, but a trip to Fort Simcoe is well worth the drive.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July and the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a reminder: "With the July 4th celebrations and festivities fast approaching, we would like all of the good people of our community to remember that fireworks are banned and therefore illegal to possess or discharge in all unincorporated areas of Yakima County...