This is a developing story. Check back to tri-cityherald.com for updates. To get breaking news alerts, click here A large fire at Tri-City Pallets in Pasco is sending a plume of smoke up that is visible from south Kennewick on Monday. Firefighters have responded to what they are saying is a pallet fire at 335 […]
Two Pasco companies will pay $470,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging multiple rapes and sexual harassment of their female farmworkers by a supervisor. The companies, Greenridge Farms and Baker Produce, retaliated against the women who spoke up, including a woman who reported to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office that she had been raped multiple times, […]
A Lower Yakima Valley man is dead after a Kennewick driver hit his two-door Honda while it was parked along the shoulder of Interstate 82, according to the Washington State Patrol. Sean D. Orrin, 33, of Kennewick, was driving a Ford Explorer east on the interstate approaching Zillah in Yakima County at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. […]
High winds fueled several fires across the Tri-Cities on Tuesday afternoon and evening, threatening homes and schools, closing roads and forcing evacuations. Tri-Cities firefighters battled blazes along Interstates 82 and 182 in Finley and Benton City. The flames were stoked by 30 mph winds, with some gusts up to 40 mph, according to the National […]
Scammers trying to sell low-cost gold jewelry at high prices were seen again Monday along some Tri-Cities area highways. A Washington State Patrol trooper spotted two men next to a rented Escalade pickup who were walking in and out of traffic near the intersection of Interstate 182 and Highway 395 on Monday afternoon, Trooper Chris […]
Wind gusts of up to 47 mph are forecast for the Tri-Cities on Monday, following a rainy night. The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for most of southeast Washington from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday. Rainfall between a tenth and a quarter of an inch was forecast for Sunday night, with […]
A 38-year-old suspect known to Tri-Cities police as a “habitual runner” met his match Friday thanks to a Washington State Patrol airplane. In the past, Shawn P. Stevens used stolen license plates and even painted his car different colors to avoid being arrested, said the WSP. But Friday his tricks ran out when he tried […]
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) — Two girls from the Tri-Cities earned a Girl Scouts Gold Award for their efforts to improve their local communities. Taylor Trammell and Evelyn Yang were both awarded after they planned and implemented significant projects that addressed an issue in their area. Trammell developed Sunday school and Wednesday night programming for youth […]
Amber Rodriguez told judges and investigators she was scared of her ex-husband’s potential for violence years before he killed her. Her estranged husband Elias Zuniga Huizar, a former Yakima police officer, was short-tempered and controlling of her actions, and she was terrified of what he might be capable of, she told police and judges. Hundreds […]
A 26-year-old man is accused of shooting a stranger 10 times outside a Pasco bar last weekend. Jesus Martinez Lopez of Pasco was one of two armed gunmen outside the La Cantina Bar on Court Street about 1:40 a.m. Saturday involved in the altercation with a third man, according to court documents. Martinez Lopez allegedly […]
A former Tri-Cities judge should never have been on the bench because of his alleged abusive relationship with his ex-wife and the relentless hounding of a former girlfriend, argued an attorney for Washington’s judicial conduct commission this week Sam Swanberg’s behavior was the focus of a day and a half of testimony at the Benton […]
Registration opens June 1 for the second half of the 2024 tour season of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site just outside Kennewick, Wash. Tour slots for summer and fall months are expected to be snapped up quickly. Visitors on the public tours of the site will observe the ongoing digging, participate in screening soil, see […]