Award-winning keyboard artist Larry Knechtel, accompanied numerous top musicians, dead at 69YAKIMA, Wash. — Larry Knechtel of Yakima, a Grammy award-winning keyboard artist who accompanied leading musicians and combos from Elvis Presley and Ray Charles to Elvis Costello and the Dixie Chicks, is dead at 69. Washington community, one of the nation’s most remote, set to get phone serviceYAKIMA, Wash. — One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 states is finally set to get phone service. Japan approves new inspection rules for Western US cherries, speeding exportsYAKIMA, Wash. — Cherry growers in three West Coast states will be able to ship sweet cherries to Japan more cheaply because of a change in the country’s pest control requirements for imports of the fruit. Yakima teacher reprimanded for sending kindergartner home with feces in his backpackYAKIMA, Wash. — 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. Washington state farmers sue to stop proposed feedlot’s plan to access well waterYAKIMA, Wash. — A group of Washington state farmers have joined two environmental groups in filing a lawsuit to block a proposed feedlot from using a well that is exempt from requiring state permits to water up to 30,000 cattle. 2 dead, 1 hospitalized in Washington state single-engine plane crashYAKIMA, Wash. — Authorities say a father and his young son were killed and his 5-year-old daughter was critically injured in a single-engine plane crash in central Washington state. Proposed Washington state feedlot for up to 30,000 cows seeks water approvalYAKIMA, Wash. — Washington state officials have approved a water rights transfer for a proposed feedlot that would be the first new one the Northwest in years, but the project still faces questions of whether it can draw drinking water from wells. Sting operation: Workers dig up radioactive wasp nests at Washington state nuclear siteYAKIMA, Wash. — If workers cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site didn’t have enough to worry about, now they’ve got to deal with radioactive wasp nests. Washington state grower Stemilt has all its peaches, nectarines certified organicYAKIMA, Wash. — One of the Pacific Northwest’s largest fruit growers has had 100 percent of its peach and nectarine crops certified as organic, following a three-year transition period. |
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