ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- The Ellensburg community came together to welcome home an LDS missionary that was isolated in Japan due to the coronavirus. Elder Joe Davis was serving in Japan…
Add Ahtanum State Forest and Teanaway Community Forest to the list of places you can't go due to COVID-19. If you decide to get some fresh air and go for a hike in one those forests, in Yakima County and…
"Do not leave the house and be around other human beings unless you absolutely have to." That's part of the new health order from Kittitas County's top health officer. Dr. Mark Larson announced Wednesday that he and other county officials are…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. — Yesterday marked the tragic one-year anniversary of an officer-involved shooting in Kittitas County that left a sheriff’s deputy dead and a police officer badly injured. Local law enforcement agencies had planned to unveil a memorial honoring…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. - The men and woman of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office and the community are remembering the life of a deputy who was killed in the line of duty one year ago as of Thursday. "One year…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. – Kittitas County is experiencing community spread of COVID-19, according to the public health department. Community spread means people have become infected without being sure where or who they got the virus from. As of Wednesday, four…
KITTITAS CO., Wash. – The Kittitas County Public Health Department announced a fourth person has tested positive for COVID-19 in the county. The patient worked at Lincoln Elementary School in Ellensburg and, according to a release, the school district is…
For the next two weeks, Washington state's restaurants, bars and gyms and other facilities will be shut down or have significantly reduced services to slow the spread of COVID-19. To help those potentially affected by temporary layoffs, the Yakima County…
MONDAY, MARCH 9TH — FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH Here’s the latest on COVID-19 emergency declarations in Yakima County March 13, 2020 Here’s the latest on Yakima County school closures March 13, 2020 Students at Yakima school sent home early after positive…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. -- A third case of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 has been confirmed in Kittitas County, the Kittitas County Public Health Department said Wednesday afternoon. This is the second new case reported by the health department…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. -- The Kittitas County Public Health Department announced Wednesday that a second county resident has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Health officials say the patient is a family member of a 67-year-old woman who tested positive…
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- A young man fell from the fourth floor of an Ellensburg apartment and died Tuesday night. Police suspect he was under the influence of drugs. Ellensburg police were called around 10 p.m. to the Central Park Apartments…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. -- The Kittitas County Health District confirmed Monday that a 67-year-old woman has tested positive for COVID-19. The woman was presumed positive on Saturday and has since been isolated from the community. The health district has also…
YAKIMA, Wash. -- The Yakima Health District has identified a facility where people may have been exposed to COVID-19. According to the health district, they advised Yakima Square & Dance Center in Moxee to close on March 7 in order…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. --- Community spread of COVID-19 likely according to the Kittitas County Public Health Department (KCPHD). Community spread means people have been infected with the virus in the area, including some who are not sure how or where…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. --- Kittitas County Sheriff's Deputies arrested an Ellensburg man on March 7 for allegedly grabbing a 9-year-old child by the arm Thursday afternoon near Cle Elum-Roslyn Elementary School. During a traffic stop in the Cle Elum area Daniel…
CLE ELUM, Wash. -- Deputies are searching for a man who allegedly grabbed a 9-year-old child by the arm near Cle Elum-Roslyn Elementary School on Thursday afternoon. According to the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office, the child's parents called 911 to…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. --- John Mulinski, a 58-year-old construction company owner, was arrested by the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office March 5 on suspicion of multiple counts of first degree theft. Mulinski is a suspect in four fraud cases that are…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. -- Kittitas County health officials have received results back for a third COVID-19 case and it's negative. While the results were negative, the county health department has added another person to its investigation list. As of Wednesday,…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. - Test results for a second suspected case of COVID-19 in Kittitas County have come back negative, according to Kittitas County Public Health. The first suspected case, in a CWU student, also came back negative last month.…
VANTAGE, Wash. The Washington State Department of Transportation had a stark warning for drivers on I-90 near Vantage on Tuesday: watch out for elk. At 4:20 p.m., WSDOT East shared a stunning photo on Twitter of hundreds of elk along…
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash. - A 29-year-old man died of cardiac arrest after a crash in Kittitas County on Sunday afternoon. According to officials, around 3 p.m. deputies were dispatched to a semi versus pickup crash at the Hanson Road and…
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- The Kittitas County Public Health Department is investigating a suspected case of novel coronavirus in Kittitas County. A test for the virus will be sent to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) Laboratory, according to a…
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - A 23-year-old is dead after a crash on I-90 in Ellensburg. The crash happened Monday morning when the driver, Afredo Calderon-Diaz was allegedly going too…
