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.

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 ...