Traffic on Englewood Avenue between 34th Avenue and 40th Avenue will be impacted for at least a day while City of Yakima crews try and pinpoint the source of a leak that is affecting the integrity of the roadway. The project will begin at 6:00 am on Wednesday, September 9th. While the project is underway,
The Randall Park Dog Park will be closed for a couple of days while a project is underway to install irrigation lines at the 1.6 acre off-leash park. The Randall Park Dog Park will be closed from 8:00 am on Wednesday, September 9th until 3:00 pm on Thursday, September 10th while new irrigation lines are
Phase 2 of the 2015 Yakima Citizen Survey is now underway and community members are invited to fill out an online version of the annual questionnaire by clicking on a link in the Points of Interest section on the City of Yakima website at http://bit.ly/1ieS8YM. Phase 1 of this year’s survey, which involved the survey
Beginning on Monday, August 31st, the section of Pacific Avenue between 6th Street and 1st Street will be closed to traffic for about one week while a road improvement project is underway. The project is expected to be completed by Friday, September 4th. Throughout the project, Pacific Avenue between 6th Street and 1st Street will
More than 1,900 players and as many as 12,000 spectators will fill Downtown Yakima streets this weekend for the 13th Annual Hot Shots 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament. The tournament will feature a total of 481, the second most entries in the event’s history. To accommodate the nearly 40 courts and a large vendor area,
A news conference will be held on Friday, August 28th at 2:00 pm at the Yakima Convention Center to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of donations from the local community during a City of Yakima-led supply drive this week for crews fighting the Okanogan Complex fires in North Central Washington. The news conference will be attended
Since the City of Yakima launched a donation campaign on Monday to gather items to assist crews battling the Okanogan Complex wildfires, the generosity of the Yakima community has been on full display. Donations from local residents and businesses have been pouring in to the two Yakima fire stations where they are being accepted. Members
Donations of specific items that firefighters battling the massive Okanogan Complex of fires need have been pouring in to two Yakima fire stations since a supply drive was launched yesterday by the City of Yakima. Spearheaded by the Yakima City Council, the supply drive will continue until this Friday, August 28th at noon. Donations of
Earlier today it was announced that the Okanogan Complex of wildfires has earned the inauspicious distinction as the largest in Washington state history. Nearly 1,300 people are battling the five fires that make up the complex, the 9 Mile, Beaver Lake, Twisp River, Lime Belt, and Tunk Block fires, which have consumed more than 400
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