Hundreds of fired probationary employees from the U.S. Department of Energy are returning to work but they may have to go through a new hire onboarding process and face the looming possibility of being fired again.

This fast fashion retailer occupies an 11,800-square-foot space that underwent a $1.3 million remodel before it opened in 2021. 

The duo that’s now organizing the annual summer concert series on Kennewick’s Clover Island has announced a new festival coming to Richland in June. 

Another central Richland thoroughfare is going to be congested over the coming months as it undergoes its first major overhaul in decades. 

Senate Republicans have published the Legislature’s first budget proposal for the next biennium, and it includes full funding for a workforce program that has lifted hundreds of Benton and Franklin county residents out of poverty.

A man who was the first in his family to attend college and has held roles at multiple colleges and universities serving Black and Hispanic students is the new leader of Heritage University, which has a branch campus in Kennewick.

A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate thousands of jobs for probationary federal workers fired as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s campaign to slash the federal workforce. 

It’s too soon to know what the Tri-City repercussions will be from the federal government’s mass layoffs and tariff wars. 

The federal footprint here has been shrinking, on a relative basis, long before the current administration started its mass firings.