The Yakima City Council is asking volunteers interested in serving on the Yakima Housing Authority Board, Board of Appeals, and the Henry Beauchamp, Jr. Community Center Advisory Committee to submit applications to the City Clerk’s office. The Board of Appeals and the Henry Beauchamp, Jr. Community Center Advisory Committee currently have one open position each.

When the Yakima-Ellensburg Commuter service was first launched in late 2011, two of the original stops in Ellensburg included Super 1 Foods (200 East Mountain View Avenue) and Safeway (400 North Ruby Street).  Over time, those two stops were eliminated from the route and replaced by stops elsewhere in Ellensburg. Beginning on Monday, January 2nd,

Click on the links below (one Spanish language and one English language) to take a survey that is part of the Safe Yakima Valley Drug Free Action Team’s annual effort to get community input about teen substance misuse and abuse. Safe Yakima Valley Drug Free Action Team Survey – English Encuesta del Equipo de Acción

Please be aware that a Snow Route Alert has been issued by the City of Yakima.  This Snow Route Alert will remain in effect overnight. This Snow Route Alert is being issued as part of a series of steps being taken by the City of Yakima to more efficiently and effectively get streets cleared of

Today, business license renewal notices will begin arriving in the mail at mom and pop shops, retail chain stores, big box retailers, etc. licensed by the City of Yakima.  Processing the 5000 to 6000 business licenses issued each year by the City can be challenging. But now, thanks to a new system implemented by the

A joint meeting of the Yakima City Council and the Yakima School District Board of Directors that had been scheduled to take place at 6:00 pm on Thursday, December 15th at the School District’s Central Offices will be rescheduled for a date yet to be decided in January. A few members of the City Council

Please be aware that a “Snow Alert” has been issued by the City of Yakima. When a snowfall reaches three inches in depth, which it now has, a “Snow Alert” is issued, triggering a series of steps to more efficiently and effectively get streets cleared of snow as quickly as possible. A key part of

Yakima Transit will be providing free shuttle bus service to the Yakima Area Arboretum’s 2016 Luminaria Candle-Lit Walk event on Friday, December 9th and Saturday, December 10th. Shuttle buses will run continuously from the parking lot of the former K-Mart store, located south of Highway 24.  The Arboretum is located north of Highway 24, just

Traffic signals at the intersection of 1st Street and Nob Hill Boulevard will be shut down temporarily during the morning on Thursday, December 1st for about three hours while a traffic signal battery backup system is installed. City of Yakima crews will be working on installing a new backup battery system to the traffic signal