Labor organizers are calling the recent 2026 legislative session a success for workers and their families and calling out lawmakers who didn’t support their efforts.
Kennewick School District is one of 10 Washington school districts selected for a Microsoft program to expand artificial intelligence skills among the state’s future workforce.
One of the state’s largest milk producers has reached a settlement with an environmental group related to pollution from its processing facility in Sunnyside.
OSC Technical Solutions is using AI and cybersecurity expertise to support the Hanford cleanup and prepare for the next generation of nuclear projects.
Hanford remains the nation’s most expensive and technically complex cleanup project, and delays, legal obligations and debates over how to treat tank waste – including whether to vitrify or grout certain wastes – mean the site could still take decades and tens of billions more to fully clean up.
Hanford is being repositioned for a new wave of nuclear development – but that push is running into longstanding concerns about cleanup, oversight and trust.
After several months of changes, from adding programs to a major name change and rebrand, the leader of one of the largest social-service nonprofits in the Tri-Cities has parted ways as the agency works to “align” with its “long-term vision.”
For more than 40 years, a local nonprofit has helped keep the elderly and the developmentally disabled moving and engaged through their day services. The organization’s work helps keep clients in their homes and cuts down on hospitalizations.
Family-owned for more than 35 years, Tri-City Lumber is making its first expansion outside of Kennewick, adding a showroom in Richland’s Horn Rapids area.
CHEF’STORE in Richland offers professional chefs and home cooks a wide selection of restaurant-quality ingredients, kitchen equipment, and catering supplies—all without a membership fee.
An art studio offering classes in oil painting, watercolors and mixed media has joined the collection of wineries and food trucks at Columbia Gardens Artisan Village in Kennewick.
The Grove in West Richland is a new 80-unit residential community at 4529 Grove Court, near the intersection of Dallas Road and Kennedy Road. As of February 2026, eight units have been completed.
Each year, Hanford becomes less a question of science and safety and more a recurring budget battle. But the mission is neither optional nor temporary: It is a legal and moral obligation. If there were ever a time to move beyond stop-and-go funding and commit to finishing the job, it is now.
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