yakima river

The Bureau of Reclamation will begin its annual “flip-flop” operation after August 20th to aid in successful spawning and incubation of chinook salmon eggs and to improve winter reservoir storage in the Yakima basin.

Warmer weather burning off a lot of snowpack, could swell the Yakima River to just below flood stage.

She says the Greenway will continue with safety messages but she says there's no plan on placing any kind of barrier between the Greenway pathway and the Yakima River.

(Richland, WA) -- A woman is rushed to the hospital after a wreck along the Eastbound 182 that left the car she was driving dangling dangerously close to the Yakima River. Washington State Patrol says this happened around 2:30pm Monday when the driver, identified as 53-year-old Neva Cobb-Rathbun lost control, rolling off the freeway on the eastbound side, going through a guardrail and coming to a

UPDATE: The Benton County Coroner's Office says the victim who was rushed to the hospital has died. The victim is not being identified pending notification of next of kin. (Benton City, WA) -- One man is in the hospital in critical condition after a tubing trip goes wrong...

WENATCHEE, Wash. - U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell announced today that the Wenatchee National Forest will be getting $5.5 million through the U.S. Forest Service’s Land and Water Conservation Fund.   The funding will go towards acquiring 3,350 acres of land to maintain public access to motorized trail networks in the Wenatchee Cascades. This will ...