A Washington kindergarten teacher who sent a 5-year-old student home with a bag of feces tucked in his backpack has been formally reprimanded.

YAKIMA, Wash. - A fire that destroyed a house Monday in the 7900 block of Englewood Crest Drive likely started from an electrical arc, authorities announced today.

It had been a long night for Stephen and his wife, driving all the way into Yakima from Montana.

Layoffs are not imminent, but Yakima City Manager Dick Zais has warned city staff to prepare for the possibility for the first time in 25 years.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima Mayor Dave Edler said this morning that news reports that the city is preparing for layoffs are overblown.

A Montana woman has died from injuries suffered when she was shot by a hitchhiker in central Washington's Yakima County.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Former Kittitas County Sheriff Bob McBride died Tuesday at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle following a stroke he suffered last week, county officials said.

In the first of likely many meetings, state and federal officials met Tuesday with tribal and local elected officials, conservation groups and irrigation districts on how best to improve the water supply in central Washington's arid Yakima Valley.

Like most people who begin a new job, Elaine Beraza spent Wednesday arranging her work space, locating the refrigerator and setting up her e-mail account.

YAKIMA, Wash.- KNDO is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Yakima. Like KNDO, the Yakima City Limits drastically expanded and keeps growing.

YAKIMA, Wash. - A brush fire that blackened 10 acres along the 5900 block of Cowiche Canyon Road is being investigated as suspicious, officials say.

A woman is dead now after suffering a gunshot wound to the head earlier this morning.

Torie Harding, left, wipes ice cream off the face of her daughter, Elizabeth, 3. Harding lives with her kids in transitional housing, a program that she decided to participate in rather than facing jail time for a probation violation.

The state is closing two National Guard armories in central Washington because of budget cuts.

The 4th of July fireworks display in Yakima is not only going to be entertaining, but its also going to be convenient.

Update on the death of a 2 year old Yakima girl, found unconscious inside a home on N. 7th Street.

A who's who of representatives gathered in Yakima Tuesday with one common interest, water.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Sunday's Shooting in Terrace Heights is the 12th homicide in Yakima County this year.

The sounds at the library are changing. No longer just hushed whispers and stacking books.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima mountain bike rider Eric Bruntjen passed the 2,000-mile mark of the Tour Divide on Monday morning, not long before he crossed into New Mexico - the last state he will traverse as part of the 2,780-mile race that began in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and ends in Antelope Valley, N.M., at the U.S.-Mexico border.