The Yakima City Council held its most recent regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015. Action taken by the Council on March 3rd included: –    Approving the Yakima Airport Master Plan –    Authorizing an engineering contract for phase 2 of the North 1st Street revitalization project –    Approval of parking improvements for downtown

Lions Pool, the City of Yakima’s indoor aquatics facility, has been closed temporarily while a main recirculation pump is replaced. The pump replacement project will be completed as quickly as possible, potentially by this weekend. However it is not known at this point exactly how long it will take to finish the work. Once the

The Yakima City Council holds its next regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015. The meeting begins at 6:00 pm at Yakima City Hall. Items on the March 3rd agenda include –    Recognition of retiring fire department secretary Rita Mantey –    A public hearing on adoption of the Yakima Airport Master Plan –   

It is that time of year again when the City of Yakima Refuse Division resumes weekly collection of yard waste. The service will start next week and continue until the end of November. More than a quarter of Yakima’s 25,000 refuse customers voluntarily subscribe to the yard waste pick up service, which costs $2.96 a

The longtime home of the Warehouse Theatre Company, a gallery that often featured the work of local artists, multiple classrooms, and the offices of the non-profit Allied Arts of Yakima Valley will be razed on Saturday, February 28th. Demolition of the building is expected to begin around 8:00 am that day. More than a year

Traffic along a one-block portion of 40th Avenue near Fisher Park Golf Course will be impacted today, Friday, and next Monday while work associated with a golf course parking lot project is underway. The outside northbound lane of 40th Avenue in front of the golf course will be closed from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm

In 2013, the Yakima Arts Commission, an advisory group appointed by the Yakima City Council, developed an idea to harness the creativity of Central Washington artists to help invigorate windows of empty downtown storefronts by displaying their work as part of a new project called, “Windows Alive!”. Based on similar projects that have proven successful

The Yakima City Council held its most recent regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015. Action taken by the Council on February 17th included: –   Approval of $100,000 for marketing and operational expenses at the Yakima Valley SunDome –   Rejecting a public advisory vote on the proposed Yakima downtown plaza –   Establishing

The Yakima City Council holds its next regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015. The meeting begins at 6:00 pm at Yakima City Hall. Items on the February 17th agenda include: –    Council direction on potential and pending items before the state legislature –    Establishing no parking zones along parade routes –    A