Longer school days and a longer school year. Sunnyside high schoolers could be looking at both next year. It may be the only way the district can snag millions in grant money.
Sunnyside is getting two new soccer fields. All thanks to the hard work of a high school senior. But the good news doesn't end there. After two years in the dark, the community center may be opening again. And the inspiration for all of this, gangs.
The Van de Graff feedlot in Sunnyside is not properly running the feedlot and creating a lot of dust in the air. The feedlot's smell and dust is very bad and they only have 10,000 head, in years past ...
You've been emailing KIMA, asking why the stretch of freeway between Sunnyside and Grandview has such deep grooves in it. Especially since the D-O-T worked on it over the summer. So we got you the answers.
It's been a rough ride for Sunnyside leaders these past 6 months. And the city is still in need of a strong leader to turn things around. But as the mayor and city council work out their problems. Business owners worry about the effects it may have on them, and the future of their city.
Sunnyside blamed the budget when nine people lost their jobs, but then the city found an extra million dollars in the budget. It would seem like those people should get their jobs back. But Action News has learned they won't. It's leaving some groups in Sunnyside to fend for themselves.
More than 40 homes cleaned out in broad daylight. Sunnyside cops call it a burglary epidemic. The looting in the lower valley now has cops and homeowners on high alert.
People are stealing from your home in broad daylight. Police say they're noticing more of that lately in Sunnyside. Action News finds out what all of us can do to stay safe.
Millions of dollars may no longer be coming to Sunnyside schools. A big chunk of the district's budget may end up going back to the state. Action News discovered, what happens to Sunnyside, could find its way to other Central Washington school districts.
Police usually do everything they can to keep gangbangers out of the city.
But after more than 3 years Aaron Lopez Garcia will be coming back to the Yakima Valley. A massive manhunt found the Sunnyside escapee in Mexico late last week. Action News spoke with law enforcement about why they went to such great lengths to bring this dangerous man back from across the border.
Aaron Lopez Garcia was one of four men who escaped from the Sunnyside City jail back in 2006. The three other men have since been caught but Garcia managed to elude authorities until Friday when U.S. Marshalls captured him in Mexico.