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A Yakima woman is dead after the small plane she was piloting crashed in Eastern Kittitas County on Tuesday. A search for the Cessna Skyhawk 172 began at around 11 p.m. on Tuesday after both the Kittitas and Grant County Sheriff's Offices were contacted by an air traffic controller in Seattle who reported the aircraft had vanished from radar tracking...

Stay informed! WSDOT's maintenance on SR 26 from Vantage to Royal City starts August 26. Expect pilot cars and flaggers for safer travels.

Travelers on State Route 26 (SR-26) can expect delays today and tomorrow (July 10, 11) due to a Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) road maintenance project. DOT spokesperson, Sebastian Moraga, says the work will cover a lengthy stretch of the highway's western expanse...

Troopers say one semi was traveling at a high rate of speed when the truck flipped onto its side while trying to negotiate a curve

Level 1 Evacuation notices were issued for the Vantage area as the fire quickly spread with large flames and heavy smoke before Firefighters contained it.

Troopers are investigating a one car crash on I-90 west of Vantage on Sunday afternoon. A 2017 Hyundai Elantra driven by 20-year-old Elias Faitala of Fife was traveling eastbound when it left the roadway and hit a rock wall. The car came to a rest on the right shoulder of the highway...

The Vantage Highway Fire near Ellensburg is burning more acreage, but conditions are also improving. The fire has grown to 26,500 acres, up from 17,000 Thursday, also is 35 percent contained, up from 25 percent. The Vantage Highway is now open and there are no evacuation notices for the fire...

The fire is estimated at 5,000 acres and growing, with about 40 homes, windmill towers and other buildings threatened.

One person is dead and two Soap Lake residents are injured from a Thursday night crash on Interstate 90 west of Vantage. The State Patrol says a 2009 Honda Civic was heading east when the driver attempted to pass another car illegally from the right before it spun around, hit a guardrail, and then hit a rock wall before coming to rest 20 feet off the roadway ...

A wildfire near Old Vantage Highway near I-90 and Silica Road was contained Sunday after burning about 15-20 acres. The Grant County Sheriff's Office says the fire burned near The Feathers, an area that is commonly hit. Structures were threatened, but none were lost and the area is not densely populated ...