Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across Yakima Valley orchards. Early apricot blossoms are emerging in the Lower ...

MANCHESTER — The Red Arrow Diner is celebrating the brief season for Rainier cherries with a special dessert, Cherry Shortcake. In celebration of National Rainier Cherry Day — it's today, in case you ...

Harold Warman Fogle, 88, a fruit research scientist who developed the exquisite but expensive Rainier cherry in the 1950s and went on to become an investigations leader in the U.S. Department of ...

As you stroll the aisles of your local nursery this time of year, you might find yourself getting hungry as you pass a portable orchard of apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees. As winter morphs ...