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 ...

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 ...

Oregon News 39 pulled from Yakima River after rafting mishap Published: Aug. 23, 2009, 6:28 p.m. By Scott Bernard Nelson | The Oregonian/OregonLive ...

The skwala stonefly hatch on the Yakima River isn’t anything to shout about. No clouds of insect plastering pickup windshields. Even the fly shops don’t pump it up that much compared with ...

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 ...

Find more from the story here. Click here to subscribe. Each summer, a 16-mile stretch of the Yakima River between Ellensburg and Yakima along State Route 821 (Canyon Road), with its cool, refreshing, ...

YAKIMA — Farmers who irrigate with Yakima River water should have their normal allotment this year, federal officials said. Only a really dry and hot spring could drastically change the outlook ...

Yakima, Wash. • The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid central Washington know what it’s like to fight over water, just like their counterparts along the Colorado River are ...