yakima river

Officials say the memories of last year's flooding is still fresh on many people's minds in NE OR and SE WA.

What lurks beneath...

Thursday, Deputies were alerted to a ten-foot boat seen drifting down the river, then bobbing up alongside the shore.

The Benton County Sheriff's department responded to a near drowning emergency Sunday in the Yakima River near west Richland, eventually life flight was called and airlifted the woman to a nearby hospital

According to sources, a pilot is unharmed, although pretty cold, after his paraglider aircraft crashed into the Yakima River near Prosser Wednesday morning. The aircraft he was flying likely looked like this one.
Officials were called to the area of the river near Prosser, after the plane got stuck, …

Yes, people have been doing it for decades, swimming in the Yakima River. For many it presents what they think is a 'safer' alternative to the mighty and sometimes intimidating Columbia.
But nothing could be further from the truth, say officials...

Saying they've done all they can, Columbia Basin Dive Rescue officials and others say now nature must run it's course in the case of a missing Hanford High senior.
18-year-old Dmitri Kennedy-Woody was one of four teens who jumped off the Yakima River Railroad bridge next to SR-240 by Richla…

Be prepared Benton City

This is no JOKE...The Yakima Nation Fisheries plan to release hundreds of Pacific Lamprey in the Yakima River this weekend!

Yakima river floaters will finally have an official park to launch their tubes from in spring of 2017. The City of West Richland is building a river front park which will have parking and bathrooms and access to the Yakima river.