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, literally...
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 Richland Monday.
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