Tri-City lawmakers have seen some of the bills they are sponsoring or co-sponsoring –concerning housing, career and higher education and even littering – survive the first cutoff for consideration during the 2025 legislative session.

Federal lawmakers from Washington state and Oregon have criticized the layoffs, saying they are going to cripple cleanup efforts at the nation’s largest nuclear contaminated site and a power grid that supplies power to multiple states and hundreds of thousands of consumers. 

Kennewick-based Cascade Natural Gas Corp. could be required to pay a $1 million fine if the state’s utilities and transportation commission agrees with its staff’s findings that the company violated an agreement regarding the safety of its pipelines.

After Lamb Weston’s abrupt departure from Connell left hundreds unemployed and the city’s budget devastated, the community now may have a clearer path to bringing a new company to town.

A $100,000 state grant to study potential industrial sites in Connell may provide a path to economic sustainability for a community still dealing with the closure of its largest employer.

HAPO Community Credit Union’s pending acquisition of Community First Bank has led the financial institution to buy land for a new home for its growing team.

Tourism and event planners are going all in on sports as the future of tourism in the Tri-Cities.

Tri-City leaders flooded the state capitol recently to rally lawmaker support for a number of priorities for the region.

A Pasco coffee roaster and shop that aims to elevate the coffee-drinking experience is expanding to its third location after buying Richland’s Barracuda Coffee Co.

Tri-City leaders are pushing forward with a bold vision for a multimillion-dollar agricultural-focused facility that could include a business incubator, wet and dry laboratories, meeting space and a test kitchen.