The process is part chess match and part marathon.

Two wealth management companies based in the Tri-Cities and three other businesses with offices here are among the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the country, according to Inc. business magazine’s annual list.

Businesses should consider banning cellphones from meetings. Paying attention to them instead of others in the room shows a lack of respect, listening, and social and self-awareness.

The real risk of PNNL layoffs is brain drain on a national scale.  

Those relying on Washington state’s Exchange health plans are about to pay a lot more for health care in the next year. 

A monument honoring the first servicemember from Kennewick killed in the Vietnam War will be rededicated following a community-led restoration effort. 

A popular crepe shop in Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center is changing hands as its founding owner focuses on other parts of his business and family. 

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sept. 9 pushed back against media reports that he is seeking a “different direction” to the environmental cleanup effort at the Hanford site, including halting work on a treatment facility on the cusp of becoming operational. 

The early shutoff has implications for the late harvest crops of the Roza Irrigation District. About two-thirds of the district’s crops, such as apples and wine grapes, are harvested after Sept. 15.

A new food truck serving up Mexican-style seafood is set to open next week at Columbia Gardens Artisan Village in Kennewick.