Airlift Northwest is now permanently based at the Yakima Airport. Regional Manager and Flight Nurse Julie Hoffman says since 2011 Airlift Northwest has been flying a plane into Yakima on a daily basis. But that is no longer the case. Now the plane is based in at the airport ready to fly into action to save lives...
A 16-year-old boy is recovering at a Yakima hospital today after being shot in the abdomen following a fight at a south Yakima home early Sunday. Yakima police say the boy told them he was shot after a fight at a home in the 1200 block of East Mead Avenue...
A 28-year-old man stabbed at a Yakima apartment on Tuesday is recovering at a Yakima hospital today. Yakima police arrested a 42-year-old man for first degree assault. Police say the stabbing happened during an argument at an apartment in the 2 hundred block of North 2 street...
Two people are expected to survive life threatening slash wounds after an argument at a Union Gap home Sunday morning. Police say a woman was cut by her boyfriend's brother when the two got into an argument. During the argument the suspect's brother was cut as he apparently tried to intervene...
Two shootings over the weekend kept Yakima Police busy. The first happened Friday night on the 800 block of South 10th Street. An unidentified teen was shot in the torso. Police did not make an arrest. The other shooting happened early Sunday on the 100 block of North 44th Avenue...
Almost a half dozen gang related shootings this month in Yakima and so far police say they have received very little cooperation and no arrests. The latest happened early Sunday morning when a 32-year-old Yakima man was shot in a leg. Authorities say they found the man just after midnight on the five hundred block of North Third Street on the sidewalk bleeding from his wound...
Two brothers, ages 10 and 11 remain in the hospital today after being struck by a car at the intersection of King Street and Rock Avenue around 8:30 Monday morning. Yakima Police Captain Rod Light says the driver, identified as 32-year-old Benjamin McKenzie was under the influence of drugs and was traveling northbound on rock avenue when he struck the two brothers in the intersection...
A 15 year old Yakima boy was shot in a drive by shooting Sunday morning. It happened in the 8 hundred block of North Naches Avenue. Yakima police say the victim was hit in the chest and taken to a Yakima hospital but had to be transferred to a Seattle hospital for further treatment. We ...