Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington holds lessons for the seven states at war over water in the American West. By Henry Fountain Photographs by Ruth Fremson Fountain and Fremson ...

Clothing, a half-inflated floating tube and an ash pit from a warming fire sat just a few feet away from the Yakima River’s edge Thursday morning. Several yards away, through the cottonwood ...

Want to know if a river is sick? Why not take its temperature? That's what the state Department of Ecology will do along the entire length of the Yakima River this week from a helicopter flying ...

next to the Yakima River, on September 10. Officers received thousands of tips, and last week took a call from a man who spotted what appeared to be skeletal remains in the river, that runs ...

YAKIMA — Rescue workers pulled four people from the Yakima River in the Elk Meadows area near Cle Elum on Sunday evening after a tree punctured their raft. Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office ...

The Yakima River is forecast to rise to near flood stage by the end of this weekend due to rain falling from the Eastern Cascade Mountains of Washington, flowing east to the Tri-Cities.