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Yakima County commissioners will take public testimony Tuesday on how applications to locate adult businesses will be handled in the future.

A civilian employee at the Yakima Police Department has been fired after auditors discovered that she stole $5,500 from receipts for electronic home monitoring services, the department said Thursday.

PROSSER — A two-month investigation by the Benton County sheriff’s Gang Unit ended Thursday morning with the arrest of two Prosser residents, authorities said.

TOPPENISH — This rural Lower Valley city is inviting the public to a series of Halloween events over the next two Saturdays that include story reading, pumpkin baking and carving contests, a parade and children’s games.

GRANDVIEW — Two identity theft suspects are in Yakima County jail while investigators wade through a mountain of paperwork to chronicle the extent of their alleged fraud.

Yakima police are asking the public for help locating two children who were taken by their father to Mexico in violation of a court order

When Costco opened its first store in Seoul, South Korea, in the mid-1990s, the warehouse retailer planned to have the same offerings available its U.S. stores, including freshly made pizza in the food court.