Jasper Sundeen

1 week ago | yakimaherald.com | Jasper Sundeen

The city of Yakima has hired Craig Warner as its new finance director. Warner worked in the finance and budget area with Yakima County for almost 40 years and was the county's finance and budget director between 2001 and 2025. He retired in January. He replaces Viren Mayani, who helped craft the city's 2025 budget and left the position after six months. Mike Bailey, a retired finance director, served as interim finance director after Mayani left in March.

1 week ago | elsoldeyakima.com | Jasper Sundeen

Hurst & Son es una empresa arrendadora de parques de casas móviles con propiedades en todo el estado de Washington. La compañía, propiedad de Caleb y Kristina Romack, fue investigada por la procuraduría general del estado después de que inquilinos de varios parques expresaron preocupaciones en años recientes.

1 week ago | elsoldeyakima.com | Jasper Sundeen

En 2018, las autoridades del condado de Yakima dijeron que harían mejoras en un cruce en el valle bajo de Yakima, luego de que un estudiante de preparatoria de Granger murió en un choque frontal en 2015. El condado tiene un diseño preliminar para la intersección en forma de cruz con curva y está incluido en su plan de mejoras al transporte, pero la falta de financiamiento le ha impedido realizar los cambios que prometió.

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Jasper Sundeen

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 health benefits through the end of 2025. After an investigation by Yakima police in 2024, Curtice admitted to police officers that he was using drugs taken from dead bodies after initially saying he had been poisoned, according to a complaint filed by prosecutors in district court.

1 week ago | thenewstribune.com | Jasper Sundeen

In 2018, Yakima County said it would make improvements to an intersection in the Lower Yakima Valley after a Granger High School student was killed in a head-on collision in 2015. The county has a preliminary design for the cross-with-a-curve intersection and it is in the county's transportation improvement plan, but a lack of funding means the changes the county said it would make have not happened.