Yakima police arrested a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier today and are searching for suspects in two other armed robberies that happened over the weekend. At about 7:50 am today (Monday, December 31st), YPD officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Conoco mini-market located at 1023 South 3rd
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 are directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County, but additional testing is being conducted to ensure intermittent outages experienced early this morning after a major outage occurred last night are completely resolved. If an outage occurs again, or if anyone calling 9-1-1 gets a
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 are again directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County. On Thursday evening, an outage that originated with CenturyLink resulted in SunComm switching to a backup phone number. Emergencies could also be reported during the outage by texting 9-1-1. The outage affected 9-1-1 calling capabilities
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 at the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County is being affected by an outage that is being attributed to an as yet undetermined issue originating with Century Link. Until the Century Link issues are resolved, people in Yakima County can call 509-457-0207. Calls will then be
Changes made recently by the Washington State Legislature require cities to adopt new business license regulation language and for the new language to take effect January 2019. In the fall of this year, the Yakima City Council followed the new state law and approved revisions to the City’s business license regulations. As a result, people
A tree removal project will impact traffic on a portion of Naches Avenue and a portion of Yakima Avenue during the day from Monday, December 17th through Thursday, December 20th. As a result of the project, Naches Avenue will be closed between Yakima Avenue and Chestnut Avenue from7:00 am to 3:00 pm from December 17th
At about 9:45 pm on Friday,December 14th, Yakima Police Department (“YPD”) officers responded to report of a reckless driver in the general area of 40thAvenue and Summitview Avenue. Shortly after the report was received, YPD officers and Yakima County Sheriff’s office (“YSO”)deputies located the suspect vehicle, which had no lights on, in the area of
The Yakima City Council is seeking volunteers interested in serving on City of Yakima boards,committees, and commissions. The Arts Commission, Community Review Board and Bicycle/Pedestrian Committee each have one available position. The Historic Preservation Commission and the Board of Appeals currently have two available openings. It is the responsibility of the City Council to appoint
A wastewater line maintenance project will impact traffic along a section of 66th Avenue for most of each day on Wednesday, December12th and Thursday, December 13th. Crews will be working on the project between 6:00 am and 5:00 pm on December 12th and 13th. While the project is underway, 66th Avenue between Englewood Avenue to
A stormwater maintenance project will impact traffic on a section of Powerhouse Road from Tuesday, December 4th through Wednesday, December 5th. Powerhouse will be closed between 24th Avenue and 26th Avenue from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm each day while the project is ongoing. Detour routes around the project area will be available. Drivers are
