Attendance was up at this year’s Central Washington State Fair in Yakima, and fair-goers were hungry. Attendance for the 10-day fair was 263,349, officials said in a news release Thursday.

The Central Washington State Fair starts at noon on Friday in Yakima and runs through Sept. 29. Here’s a guide: Admission is $1 with free parking from noon to 4 p.m. Friday only. For more ...

The move came less than two weeks after the Central Washington State Fair announced Oct. 15 that Kramer would be its new president and CEO, effective Feb. 1. Kramer was still working for the Fair ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The woman picked to become the Central Washington State Fair's new president and CEO has just been dismissed from her current job in California as the Orange County Fair's president.

YAKIMA, Wash. — Country singer Phil Vassar will be performing at the Central Washington State Fair in Yakima Friday night after Josh Turner’s show was abruptly canceled by a fatal bus crash.

So far, it’s still scheduled to run in September. Same for the Central Washington State Fair in Yakima, the state’s fifth-largest, planned for late September. A message on the fair’s website ...

Teenagers in a scuffle Sunday night at the Central Washington State Fair scatter as Yakima police officers converge, a video shows. “Get on the ground now!” an officer shouts as he and another ...

The state’s first federal mass vaccination center is located at the Central Washington State Fair Park. It opened Wednesday and will administer close to 1,200 doses of vaccine per day.