Bernie Sanders

There's always excitement in the air when a celebrity makes time for a visit to the Yakima Valley.

We always hear people say that no big names come to Yakima, but lots of big names visit our fair valley every year. I thought I'd jog your memory on a few who visited Yakima this past year. Feel free to comment below if I forgot anyone.

Tuesday Saudi Arabia reopened it’s market to U.S. beef giving producers and exports access to Saudi consumers after four years of being shut out of this market. They have been closed to US beef shipments since 2012 when an “atypical” case of mad cow diseases was detected according to the USDA...

Believe it or not, there are more than four people running for president. You do have a choice. I know it is hard to keep up, but you have options in the presidential election. I am not political at all, but I have five things that I need in a president.

Kids and homemade signs ... that's what impressed me at Thursday's Bernie Sanders presidential campaign rally in the the Yakima Valley SunDome.

Bernie Sanders keeps saying he's not running a traditional campaign, and Thursday night he did his best to prove it -- he became the first presidential candidate to visit Yakima in 17 years, drawing a diverse, loud and devoted crowd to the Yakima Valley SunDome just two days before Washington's March 26 Democratic caucuses...

Fresh off a raucous rally in Seattle on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has added a campaign stop in Yakima this week. The Vermont senator will speak Thursday (March 24) at the Yakima Valley SunDome, according to his campaign's website...

In a major statement against the current political establishment, businessman Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont have won the first primaries of the 2016 election season.

Ben and Jerry's created an ice cream inspired by Bernie Sanders. It's mint ice cream with a solid chocolate top. We are talking about Ben and Jerry's, so the reasoning behind the solid chocolate top is that it represents the massive economic gains of the top 1 percent among U.S. earners since the end of the recession.