awards

If you're tired of the normal patting of backs at award shows, check out this NO DIALOGUE version, it's awkward... and awesome!

The Yakima Sunfair Parade Board has announced winners of this year’s parade in a variety of categories.

The award ceremonies can be viewed at YFD 2019 Awards – YouTube

As I watched the show, it reminded me of a wonderful childhood memory.

Now that all of the Oscars hoopla has come and gone, it is time to acknowledge the WORST in movies for 2019!

The results of the annual Yakima Herald-Republic readers choice awards were recently announced at a ceremony at the 4th Street Theater is Yakima.

This year, the Yakima Valley strikes again with a nominee for the highly-coveted James Beard culinary award.

This year’s awards season has been a special treat due to the absence of a clear-cut frontrunner, with The Big Short, Spotlight, The Revenant, and Mad Max: Fury Road all in relatively close competition — up until very recently, at least. While early nominations were split between these four heavy-hitting movies, The Revenant has broken out in recent weeks as the various awards-giving bodies have had their ceremonies. Artistic intention be damned, the sheer technical bravado of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s western may be enough to push it through to a big victory on Oscar night, if last night’s showing at the BAFTAs is any example.

How well do you know your awards show alphabet? There's the ACMs and CMAs. We used to celebrate the ACAs, but now we embrace the ACCAs instead. The VMAs, BMAs, PCAs, CMTs, STDs … Okay, we made that last one up, but come 2016, who knows?

By 2050, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates a 73 percent increase in meat and egg consumption.

Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital has been named a 2014 Circle of Life Award winner for its comprehensive programs to improve the care of patients near the end of life or with life-limiting conditions – one of just three honorees in the country.

USDA is now accepting applications for new conservation initiatives developed in the 2014 Farm Bill.