It’s been a busy week or two for the Yakima City Council.
If you’ve been through a summer or two here, you’ve likely felt the stab of fear at spotting a plume of smoke boiling over a nearby ridge.
Ten people were murdered at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday by an alleged white supremacist who believed in the “great replacement theory,” …
After three months of thinking and talking about redefining rules for rural agritourism, county planners seem close to their final answer.
Following the leak of a draft majority opinion, expectations run high that the U.S. Supreme Court soon will overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade deci…
How on earth does one spark controversy from that blandest of government creations, the internal working group?
 strange coincidence has led to the Yakima City Council deciding that it’s better to be safe than sorry when it comes to flying anybody’s fla…
County and statewide election filings will soon be upon us.
Two years after breaking up with the Seattle-based Virginia Mason health system, Yakima Valley Memorial is apparently ready to see new people.
While Democrats were spending their political energies enforcing gender-neutral vocabulary to please their progressive base, Republicans were …
The Washington Supreme Court’s decision to hold off on a new rule that would restrict access to juvenile court records suggests our justices a…
Much of the world reacted in horror at Russian atrocities in the town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, one month ago. After the Russian army retrea…
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