Yakima Valley

Maria Ureña recently celebrated 15 years as a college adviser for the College Success Foundation. She’s spent almost as long working with kids at Davis High School.

The Yakima Valley College Art Department is cleaning out its shelves and you can reap the benefits. The big home and garden show is this weekend. And if you have an old prom dress in your closet, we know just the place to take it.

Explore columnist Janell Shah and her husband sometimes throw a dart at a map of Washington to decide where they will go. It’s taken them to some of the strangest, coolest and most random places.

It was 50 years ago that rock fans headed into record stores, spied a stark, black album cover with a single beam of light refracted into colors through a prism, and soon thereafter heard music unlike anything that had come before it.

Miguel A. Juárez started as a farmworker cutting asparagus and picking apples in the Yakima Valley. Today, he’s an associate professor at Heritage University who is helping countless other students fulfill their dreams.

These sweet and delicious muffins have a light texture, much like a coffee cake, but in muffin form. Plus, you can use up past-their-prime bananas.