Even as the federal government withdraws support for clean energy projects and legal challenges against those same projects continue from tribal, environmental and community advocates, the industry is still expected to boom in the coming years.
Your favorite salon may not be able to use your long-preferred products at your next appointment as the state law banning cosmetics containing a variety of prohibited chemicals goes into effect on Dec. 31.
The developer planning a wind farm in the Horse Heaven Hills had already intended to scale back the number of turbines before the state recently restricted the project over nesting concerns for endangered ferruginous hawks. The revised plan now calls for fewer turbines, but ones that are taller, with larger blades, and potentially located closer to the Tri-Cities.
Local businesses have felt some strain this year with rising costs, changing tariffs and customers pulling back on spending. Overall, the year has been flat for three longtime local businesses as they work to engage customers in the ways they know best.
Amazon packages crisscross the country every day, but in the Tri-Cities, many of them arrive thanks to a delivery service owned and operated by someone who calls the area home.
A local helicopter operator is the only one of its kind between Lewiston and Seattle, offering a range of diverse services such as cherry drying, flight instruction, photography tours and even Easter egg drops.
Two sisters are welcoming customers to Ink Drinkers Bookshop’s first holiday season at a storefront at 309 W. Kennewick Ave. in downtown Kennewick. They aren’t the only ones betting on downtown either. Their store opening is part of a flurry of new businesses injecting life into the city’s commercial district.
Columbia Basin Health Association’s new 35,000-square-foot clinic at 7405 Three Rivers Drive, Pasco, opened in November to expand the community’s access to health care.
Franklin County has completed a new 1,560-square-foot morgue facility at 1310 N. Fifth Ave. in Pasco to support the growing service needs of the coroner’s office as the county’s population continues to expand.
As we reach the close of another year, all of us at the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business want to extend our gratitude to those who make our work possible: our readers, advertisers, community partners and the broader Mid-Columbia community.
Rather than converting farmland to solar facilities, we could build solar arrays and continue growing crops and raising livestock beneath the gentle shade of the panels. This approach is called “agrivoltaics,” and it could be one way to ease competition between the agriculture and solar energy sectors.
There are many examples illustrating how businesses of all sizes are pillars of their communities. Unfortunately, there are forces undermining those pillars.
Egg drops, photo ops and crop stops
