UPDATE: June 19 at 3:25 p.m.. KITTITAS VALLEY, Wash. – Deputies have issued evacuation notices for residents on Colockum Road due to safety concerns. Level 3 evacuation notices, meaning "LEAVE ...

Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue, along with the Department of Natural Resources, are responding to a brush fire in the area of Colockum Road and Trail Creek Road near Ellensburg.

Aug. 29--WENATCHEE-- Insurers for two homeowners who suffered losses in the 2013 Colockum Tarps Fire now seek damages from the orchardist whose faulty equipment triggered the blaze. Scroggie, 63 ...

Jones was behind the wheel of a 1997 Chevrolet Tahoe that rolled off the north side of Colockum Road near mile marker 19, ejecting Underwood and pinning her. She was pronounced dead at the crash site.

Special bull permits nearly doubled last season for the Colockum herd as the bull to cow ratio rose to 24 to 100, compared to just 13 to 100 in the Yakima Herd.

Local elk herds remain in good shape this hunting season following another mild winter and low snowpack, according to the Washington Department of Wildlife.