About two dozen Wenas Valley homes remained under mandatory evacuation orders Wednesday evening after a wildlands fire grew to more than 2,800 acres.

YAKIMA, Wash. - The Wenas fire has grown to 1600 acres. Fire activity moderated overnight into Saturday morning. Evacuations have been lifted and N. Wenas Road and Longmire Ln are open for traffic ...

SHOOTING — To reduce the risk of wildfires, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is restricting target shooting on the Wenas Wildlife Area near Yakima and Ellensburg. From June 2-Sept ...

A wildfire that started July 23 in Yakima County has closed about 50,000 acres of the Wenas Wildlife Area near Selah. Called the Pipeline fire, it was burning 7,100 acres Friday and about 20 ...

While opposition to the ranges has been muted, some Wenas Wildlife Area users aren’t happy with the state’s intent to limit all target shooting to those two sites.

It seems that making driveways and roads is a way to see the Yakima Valley’s pre-history. When Bronwyn and Douglas Mayo were having a private road put on their property north of Selah, they made ...