Vivien Washington Sears was a businesswoman, rancher and a patron of the arts in the Lower Yakima Valley, and someone who did not tolerate racism.
Polly Speidel was an accomplished artist whose work appeared in a Hollywood movie when she made local art history.
As the United States was moving its bicentennial celebration into high gear, a glass ceiling was shattering in Yakima.
Bonnie J. Dunbar is the first woman from Washington state to go into space, flying five missions on the space shuttle and logging a total of 5…
Former President Jimmy Carter’s move to hospice has led to recollections of his tenure as president and his diplomatic and humanitarian work.
Barely two months after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that disrupted the l…
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The Yakima Valley has been well represented in the world of sports.
When William Craven became the mayor of Roslyn almost 48 years ago, he made history not just locally, but statewide.
The Legislature created Yakima County on Jan. 21, 1865, after scrapping an earlier county in Central Washington called Ferguson.
Click Relander, a former city editor at the Yakima Herald-Republic, also did extensive research on the history and culture of the Wanapum and …
But before Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field officially opened in 1926, it was a pasture that pilots would use for takeoffs and landings wi…
Nineteen years ago, Mabton found itself in the national spotlight.
Thursday marks Klickitat County’s 163rd “birthday,” the day the territorial legislature voted to incorporate the county.
The Savoy was built sometime in the first decade of the 20th century to serve people arriving in Yakima via the Northern Pacific Railway.
Less than a month after the Yakama were defeated at Union Gap, militiamen from Oregon were marching on another Native leader — the Walla Walla…
More than 350 Yakima County residents were killed in World War II. Among them, Henry Carl Beerman of Tieton was among the first, a casualty of…
For those who travel Interstate 90, Indian John Hill is a waypoint in the trip. It's named after John Quititit, who lived at the foot of the h…
”This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans.”
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital was born from a family’s grief 77 years ago.Carol Mueller, the 8-year-old daughter of Edwin and Phyllis Muelle…
In the 1990s, Kellogg's created a new cereal. The chicken-wolf-moose-pig mascot came from the Yakima Valley. It's quite the story.
It Happened Here: Capt. Nathan Olney served as an Indian Agent in Oregon and was one of the first settlers in the Ahtanum area. He was, by man…
In 1900, William Jennings Bryan brought his rhetorical skills to what is today Yakima as part of the groundwork for his 1900 presidential camp…
Wesley United Methodist Church’s congregation is celebrating the faith’s sesquicentennial Sunday.
Maria Shriver’s appearance at the Yakima Town Hall Series last week marks the third time a member of the Kennedy clan has spoken in the city.
When journalist and author Maria Shriver takes the stage at The Capitol Theatre Wednesday, it will mark a major milestone for the Yakima Town …
The Hay Palace Fair opened Sept. 15, 1915, for a three-day run in Mabton, Wash. The centerpiece of this extravaganza was the Hay Palace, a cas…
In Washington, the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, found success among the migrant workers who came to work in the fields and or…
The photo of U.S. Marines and a Navy medic raising the American flag on Iwo Jima is one of the most iconic images in American culture. A Catho…
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