ELLENSBURG, Wash. — You know how, when a team loses an absolutely critical player to injury for a chunk of the season, it’s supposed to make all of the rest of the players on the team better? Because they have to, as one so often hears in athletics, “step up”? Well, it didn’t work quite [...]

An Ellensburg man is accused of beating his girlfriend's two children so severely both are in a Seattle hospital.

ELLENSBURG—An Ellensburg man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly beating his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son several times over the past two weeks. The girlfriend also was arrested.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — Every year, members of the Eaton family, who ranch about 15 miles southeast of Ellensburg, recreate an Old West tradition with a real cattle drive. Family members on horseback drive cattle 5 or 6 miles on the Yakima river Canyon Highway, also known as Highway 821. The herd grazes from early November on Manastash Ridge and in the Burbank and Selah Creek drainages.

An Ellensburg man is accused of beating his girlfriend's two children so severely both are in a Seattle hospital.

ELLENSBURG -- A Manastash Creek landowner has been assessed a $16,000 penalty for changing the creek's channel without permits, a violation of the Clean Water Act.

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — A Manastash Creek landowner has been assessed a $16,000 penalty for changing the creek’s channel without permits and in violation of the Clean Water Act.

Two Ellensburg children are in a Seattle hospital and their mother and her boyfriend are in the Kittitas County Jail in what police are calling one of the more gruesome child abuse cases they’ve seen.   The alleged abuse happened at the Anchor M apartments, just north of Central Washington University, police said. An 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl were beaten so badly they had to be rushed ...

A team of riders moves a herd of pregnant cows along the Yakima Canyon Highway between Yakima and Ellensburg during the annual Eaton family cattle drive on Saturday.

From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries. Another mystery burred deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing.