One of 17 defendants in a lawsuit over nitrate-contaminated groundwater in Oregon’s Umatilla and Morrow counties will pay $6.2 million to resolve legal claims against it.
The hundreds of homeowners living in the Horn Rapids community in Richland could be liable for thousands of dollars each in legal fees over a lawsuit filed in 2025.
Five years ago, longtime plastics salesman René Collin was approached to start a business making high-density polyethylene pipes. Today, the concept is more than just a pipe dream: Texas-based Century Pipe LLC’s first manufacturing facility has opened its doors near Burbank.
The developer the Port of Pasco dismissed after failing for years to break ground on its planned vision for Osprey Pointe says in court documents the port’s current executive director is the reason it was forced out.
Kennewick’s Grace Clinic is bracing for a surge in patients. The free medical and dental clinic – the only one serving both Benton and Franklin counties – expects demand to spike as Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies expire and Medicaid eligibility rules tighten under H.R. 1, the federal budget law also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
An addiction treatment clinic that first launched in Kennewick more than a decade ago has grown to 80 locations across nine states, and in 2025, treated more than 7,000 patients in Washington.
Older and historic homes in the Tri-Cities can take longer to sell because of buyer perceptions, even though owners say many have been well maintained and built to last.
At this downtown Kennewick shop, new inventory arrives daily, the phone rings often, a rescue dog pines for pets, and owner Dan Sanders can usually tell you whether he has the card, comic, figure or game someone is hunting for, even if it is buried in the store’s crowded maze of shelves, boxes and back room inventory.
The company behind the signs for the new Pasco Aquatic Center, Benton County Fairgrounds’ recently revamped grandstands and the Columbia Valley Center for Recovery has new owners with a bold new vision.
From the Marines to financial services to the dentist's chair, this dentist said every chapter of his career prepared him for what he now considers his calling – the work he's been doing at his own Pasco practice.
Tri-Tech Skills Center has completed its core modernization project at 5929 W. Metaline Ave. in Kennewick. The $45.5 million, state-funded project modernized the original 66,000-square-foot section of the approximately 130,000-square-foot facility, which was built in 1981.
Columbia Basin College has completed Hawks Landing Hall, a new student housing facility at 2108 W. Argent Road, at the corner of 20th Avenue and Argent Road in Pasco.
Kaizen Speed has completed a new 13,000-square-foot facility at 2589 Robertson Drive in Richland, providing the company with a larger, centralized location to support its growing performance vehicle business.
Amazon's massive Pasco warehouse has sat empty for years, a monument to how much has shifted in the retail and logistics world since it was first built five years ago.
Employers are becoming more pessimistic about the state economy and increasingly looking outside Washington to expand. At this pivotal moment, Washington needs a long-term economic development plan that gives employers the confidence to invest, grow and build their future here.
Small business owners should think beyond their individual needs and consider whether they should make specific arrangements to ensure that their incapacity doesn’t incapacitate their business.
