Yakima County will pay embattled Coroner Jim Curtice an extra six months salary in exchange for Curtice’s resignation, officials decided Tuesday. Curtice may sign the agreement as soon as ...

Yakima County Coroner Jim Curtice has officially resigned. Curtice signed off on a settlement and separation agreement Friday that Yakima County Commissioners approved three days earlier.

Yakima County Commissioners unanimously approved a resignation agreement with County Coroner Jim Curtice on Tuesday. As a part of the agreement, the county will pay Curtice $66,774 and provide ...

A Washington agency is reviewing the 2023 death of Hien Trung Hua in the Yakima County jail to determine whether a new criminal investigation is warranted, the agency disclosed last week.

More than a dozen in Yakima County are sick with tuberculosis, reported The Yakima Herald-Republic. According to the Yakima Health District, there are 16 active cases of the disease in Yakima County.

Unable to afford an attorney and facing a dwindling roster of Yakima County public defenders, Root waited three months for a public defender to represent him for the felony charge. His partner ...

GRANT COUNTY, Wash. -- A Yakima man was arrested in Grant County Thursday following a three-month-long drug trafficking investigation. 44-year-old Santos Tellez Mojica was arrested during a ...

A defendant with no available public defender to represent them waits for their court hearing to begin at the Yakima County Jail on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Yakima, Wash. Last summer ...