Community Health Plan of Washington has opened an office in Pasco.The not-for-profit managed care plan’s Pasco office will provide arearesidents with a place to seek help finding answers to pressing Medicare andMedicaid questions.Leanne Berge, CEO of Community Health Plan of Washington, speaks at the open house for the new Pasco...
Proposal would up minimum salary for exempt eligibilityHundreds of thousands of workers could earn overtime payunder a new proposal from the state Department of Labor and Industries. The proposed changes would significantly increase theminimum amount employees must earn before they can be exempt from receivingovertime pay and could impact more...
Commissioners created process to find successor, search firm will be hiredThe Port of Benton’s longtime executive director hasretired, effective June 1.Scott KellerScott D. Keller started working at the port 30 years ago asthe airport director and assistant executive director before being promoted toexecutive director 17 years ago.“I’ve done everything I...
Dave Retter,Broker/owner,Retter and Company Sotheby’s International Realty; SVN Retter & Co.Number of employees you oversee? 85Brief background about your company:I started in 1979 in the business and opened our company in October1992. In 2016, after 26 years withanother franchise, we changed our franchise affiliation to Sotheby’sInternational Realty. We are a...
Century 21 Tri-Cities program donates listing to student scholarshipsA three-bedroom, 2,090-square-foot home built by Pasco highschool students was under contract nine days after it went on the market.The home was listed for $333,500.Students, teachers and other partners celebrated thecompletion of the Team Pasco House at 4118 Vermilion Lane, south of...
Two popular spots in Kennewick’s Columbia Park reopen June 15 – just in time for summer. A dedication ceremony is at 11 a.m. for the Toyota of Tri-Cities Playground of Dreams and at noon for the Columbia River Landing building at the newly renamed Columbia Park Golf Tri-Plex.The celebration includes...
U.S.Department of Energy contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has partneredwith Richland-based Polestar Technical Services to further clean up the CentralPlateau and along the Columbia River.DOE’sOffice of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization recently approved amentor-protégé agreement between CHPRC and Polestar, a small woman-ownedbusiness.To help provide a level playing field for...
After a four-year run, the Tri-City Development Council won’t be putting on its annual FABREO conference this year.The Food and Beverage Retention & Expansion Opportunities program, which began in 2015, was held annually to bring food and beverage processors together with industry brokers, distributors, retailers, exporters and service providers from...
The winner of the 2019 Junior Achievement Titan BusinessChallenge, a business simulation contest, was a team from Kamiakin High Schoolin Kennewick. The three-student team beat 11 others from area high schoolsand achieved the highest performance index at the May 14 event at the ThreeRivers Convention Center in Kennewick.Aiden DeVere, August Sarrazin...
Benton and Franklin counties recorded $5.8 billion in taxable retail sales in 2018, a 7 percent gain over the previous year.Franklin County recorded $1.65 billion in 2018, a 7.9 percent increase over the previous year, and Benton County $4.16 billion, a 6.7 percent increase.Continued gains in construction and auto sales...
