Church scandal -- Adult's allegations raise more questions - 
YAKIMA -- It's a thorny ethical problem, the kind any Catholic would be loath to confront. When a priest engages in a sexual relationship with another adult -- is it abuse? Or isn't it? It's a topic that has been brewing here ...

Church scandal -- Former seminarian tells his story - 
YAKIMA -- The 37-year-old at the center of a controversy reverberating through the Catholic Diocese of Yakima blames a local priest for destroying his aspirations to join the Catholic clergy. It began, Juan Jose González...

Out of sight, out of mind, rural riverbanks get trashed - 
TOPPENISH -- It's a nice drive down East Branch Road, where towering cottonwoods lining the Yakima River serve as a backdrop to the rural homes that dot the area. But if you hang a right at Wierman Road and follow i...

05/15/08 Around the Lower Valley - 
Grandview readies spring concerts GRANDVIEW -- The city has ironed out its spring concert lineup for Country Park. Nonprofit groups and community clubs will take turns staging free outdoor concerts and meals Tuesday nights at Coun...

Ceremony will honor officers who died in line of duty - 
YAKIMA -- The public is invited to a ceremony this morning in Yakima to honor the nation's law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Today is National Peace Off...

Skinner bows out of politics - 
YAKIMA -- State Rep. Mary Skinner stunned the local political establishment Wednesday, announcing her retirement one month after assuring supporters she would seek an eighth term. Her...

05/15/08 Around the Valley - 
House shot at, firebombed TOPPENISH -- Police are looking into separate gang-related shootings and a firebombing at the same home over the past several days. The most recent incident was shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block ...

A day all his own - 
If a marriage of bureaucracy and baseball at first seems a bit odd, consider that the primary proponent of this one, Dave Edler, played third base for Bobo Brayton at Washington State. Also be reminded that Edler, Yakima's mayor, became visibly emotional...

Bat sale will benefit PYSF - 
The Parker Youth and Sports Foundations is taking a swing at fundraising by selling commemorative baseball bats. The wood bats were made by Hillerich & Bradsby, the company that makes Louisville Sluggers, and honor the careers of former Yakima Valley ...

Bobo Brayton Day proclamation - 
A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Yakima has great sports legends and heroes with regional, national and worldwide sports acclaim, we honor our Sports Legend, Bobo Brayton. WHEREAS, our community seeks to pay tribute to individuals who lived in the Yakima Valley an...

Big Nine reshuffle lacks logic - 
Spirited high school rivalries do come and go, but usually with good reason. But we're not seeing any good reason for the shakeup next school year for the new Columbia Basin Big Nine Athletic Conference that ends the long-standing league-play rivalry betw...

05/15/08 Death Notices - 
Kym Renee Boob Kym Renee Boob, 40, of Yakima died Monday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Boob was born in Sheridan, Wyo., and had been a resident of Yakima for 10 years. She worked for the state of Washington as a community corrections officer. S...

Winter Relief - 
YAKIMA -- On the first day of May, the Oak Creek Wildlife Area opened its gates to shed hunters who had waited patiently for the opportunity to scour the hillsides for the prized elk antlers shed over the winter and spring by bull elk. And wildlife area m...

Northwest Sportsman -- Bass are on the rise - 
Bass fishing in the Northwest is not nearly as big as it is in other parts of the country. But that's not to say there aren't plenty of bass anglers around. Actually, there are more and more people getting into bass fishing, and according to Mike Meseber...

Ski areas finish strong season - 
YAKIMA -- Ski areas around the Pacific Northwest had such great snow throughout the 2007-08 winter that neither its November absence nor its road-closing, mid-winter surplus could prevent a banner year for the winter-sports industry. Several resorts -- in...

5/15/08 What's Happening - 
Local fly guru to show how to catch a salmon A presentation on catching salmon on a fly -- yes, it can be done -- will be the centerpiece of Tuesday's meeting of the Yakima Fly Fishers Association. The meeting, and the presentation by local fly-fishing gu...

Snow keeps many areas closed - 
YAKIMA -- It's going to be a scorcher in the lowlands this weekend, but jumping right into those summer activities you've been waiting for might be a problem. Or even impossible. In some cases, they might not even be doable by Memorial Day weekend. In th...