Tri-City native traveled around the world before Tri-City native traveled around the world before opening restaurant in Kennedy Road strip mallInteresting tidbit on the Endive Eatery, the newcafe-style restaurant in West Richland: aside from the sign on the building andvarious signage inside, there isn’t an endive to be found in...

Darin Warnick has a five-word solution to all theworld’s problems.“Just go ride a bike.”From global warming and bad traffic, to stress and badhealth, all of it can be solved by climbing into the saddle, pushing thepedals, grinding the gears and basically biking away your worries.“The bike is a simple solution...

A $1.5 trillion debt.Owed by 45 millionpeople, or 15 percent of the U.S. population.Backed by the U.S.government, and by extension, taxpayers.Anyone who thinks thiscountry’s growing student debt crisis doesn’t affect them is sorely mistaken.That’s the messagefrom a certified student loan counselor, and he says it’s true for all folkswhether they...

The sweetest words a potato farmer in EasternWashington can hear aren’t aboutcrop yields or perfect weather or the opening of new processing plants.Nah. What really rings golden is: Taco Bell is bringing back NachoFries.Or: McDonald’s now has all-day breakfast.And then there’s “loaded” fries, those deep-fried potato stripsslathered in all manner...

The most recent hops data paints a picture that could beinterpreted as an end to the recent boom for Washington hop farmers.But that does not point toward a fall backto earth, said Ann George, a Moxee farmer and executive director of theWashington Hop Commission, which serves double duty as the...

The answer to the obvious question is “no.”Aboxing program for people with Parkinson’s disease does not include a lot offist-to-face-type action. Mostof the participants already are in a pretty big fight.Instead, programs like Rock Steady Boxing — a national program offered in the Tri-Cities by Tony and Gigi Valdez at...

Becky Brice never intended to open a brick-and-mortar studio when she started The Wet Palette Paint Parties five years ago. Back then, the party traveled to its customers. Now, it stays in the studio.And it’s an evenbigger studio than the one she had at The Parkway in Richland for more...

The numbers aren’t all that far apart — from 505 Swift Blvd.to 625 Swift.And the physical move into Richland’s new City Hall from theold building amounts to several hundred feet across Jadwin Avenue.But after $18.4 million and 20 months of construction — plussome 14 years of planning and negotiations before...