YAKIMA, Wash. — A 20-year-old man was sentenced to six years in federal prison last week for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl while she was drunk and incapacitated. Darius Morningstar Speedis is ...

The Yakama Nation and Nez Perce Tribe have expressed strong opposition to the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement (RCBA). The agreement, established in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakama Nation is using emergency funding from the Washington State Department of Commerce to help tribal families pay for essentials after federal SNAP benefits failed to load at ...

What happened: Amber Onepennee scored 10 points and the fourth-seeded Eagles (20-4) eliminated the 13th-seeded Wildcats (15-7) in the State 1B Round of 12 on Wednesday at the Spokane Arena. Brystal ...

Elaine Harvey isn’t opposed to clean energy. Like many other Yakama Nation tribal citizensPumped-energy storage, she worries about how climate change will affect traditional landscapes inhabited by ...

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The Yakama Nation has protested Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s support for the Horse Heaven wind and solar project, saying the governor dismissed evidence about the tribe’s sacred ties to the area. The ...

A buffalo herd is a rare site in Washington. But, on the edge of the Yakima River, not far from an interstate among the hop and corn fields, nearly 200 buffalo roam just outside of the small farming ...

The Yakama Nation suggests a company hoping to build a pump-storage power plant in south-central Washington pay at least $40 million to compensate for destroying tribal cultural and natural resources.

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation have been consulting with the Washington Department of Archaeology and Historic ...