State Rep. Jeremie Dufault said he plans to introduce a bill to alter new state overtime rules when the next legislative session starts next month.

A downtown Yakima eatery is getting a new look to go along with its new ownership.

Ana Cruz of Prosser has harvested apples, cherries, blueberries and hops in her 15 years as a farmworker. Over that time, she’s seen her older children grow up — one child is in college and two more will soon start college — and given birth to three more children.

Over the last several years, we’ve seen Cassie Gordon expand her Yakima coffee business. After inheriting Tom Tom Espresso, a stand north of 40th Avenue and Tieton Drive, she opened locations at Creekside Business Park at 48th and Washington Avenue, on 10th and Washington avenues and, most r…

In March, Kelly Stuber was one of six finalists for the Enterprise Challenge, a business plan competition organized by the Yakima County Development Association. In that competition, she expressed her goal to open a business where customers could paint their own pottery.

After working in financial management in California and Yakima for 20 years, Shannon Fournier decided to take a different tack and is now running a merger of two long-running Yakima business.

Over the last few years, Hogback Development Co., a company formed through a partnership with lead developer Chris Waddle and contractor Benjy Stephens, has been instrumental in building retail developments that have housed new regional and national brand tenants to the Yakima Valley, such a…

’Tis the season to get giving. As we prepare to sit around bountiful tables with loved ones, it’s also a time to remember our year-end giving. It’s a time to earmark a little something extra for the charities doing great work in our community and around the globe.

Tyler Russell is the media and community contact person for the Better Business Bureau Northwest & Pacific’s Eastern Washington and North Idaho area. Email him at tyler.russell@thebbb.org.

Yakima Cinema opened in 1993.

A third-generation farmer, Derrick Nordberg decided in 2012 to try his hand at home brewing.

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