One of the more iconic buildings on the Columbia Basin College campus in Pasco may have its days numbered if state lawmakers agree to fund its replacement.
March 22 marks the final game of the season for the Tri-City Americans but also the beginning of a transformation for the area around the Toyota Center and Three Rivers Convention Center.
Kadlec has shifted to a new medium to use in its ventilators and similar respiratory therapy equipment that is just as effective and safer to handle. It also will net the hospital about $20,000 per year in cost savings.
Columbia Basin College’s intention to offer a new bachelor’s of applied science degree in respiratory therapy as early as fall 2025 is a breath of fresh air for Tri-City area hospitals.
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.
