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.

Last year’s total fair attendance was 319,351. While this year’s attendance was down, fair organizers were still pleased. “We had a great final weekend,” said Greg Stewart, fair 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Six new restaurants and a rooftop bar are coming to the Washington State Fair – just in time for ... with all the rides surrounding it. It’s a central hub of the fairgrounds.” ...

One of the oldest buildings on the grounds of the Washington State Fair was destroyed by fire early ... alarms before it was extinguished by the Central Pierce fire department.