A small forest near Toppenish was created to heal and nourish the land and those who planted it. The healing forest also inspired Christina Kaltsukis in sharing important messages. She features the ...

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 ...

Don Ryan / AP To help it produce all the energy it needs, the Yakama Nation is planning a new sort of battery — using rocks. The idea is called advanced rail energy storage. It’s similar to other ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Thirteen people have been charged following a long-term investigation into drug trafficking on the Yakama Nation Reservation. According to the Washington Drug Enforcement ...

Federal energy regulators last Thursday greenlit a roughly $2 billion renewable energy megaproject on a Yakama Nation sacred site overlooking the Columbia River in Klickitat County. The 40-year ...

TOPPENISH — An Albuquerque attorney, Darlene Gomez, is working with a Yakama Nation family to get answers and justice for their loved one, Mona Renee Vallo. She was killed in a hit-and-run in New ...

Wahpeniat, or “one who makes good baskets,” was the traditional Yakama name given to 12-year-old Bessie Bill at a Yakama Nation sacred longhouse ceremony. Born to Johnny Jr. and Lucinda Bill, Bill was ...

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 ...

Courtesy of Troy Watlamet There’s a new sheriff — or — rather, a Hanford safety officer in town. The Yakama Nation has started a position to help protect the way-out 586-square-mile site. Troy ...

The Yakama Nation now owns the Klickitat Hatchery, a facility near Glenwood which releases three species of salmon into the Klickitat River to boost populations. Yakama Nation Fisheries has led and ...

A federal judge granted the Yakama Nation’s request to keep a winter weather shelter open 24 hours a day in Toppenish in Yakima County. The Yakama Nation filed for an injunction after the city of ...