It’s been an unprecedented year for Tri-City public school districts in the wake of the pandemic.Though students left classrooms in March 2020 and then started the year with remote learning, the districts’ construction projects have been chugging along.Richland School DistrictThe most recent state data shows 2019-20 enrollment for the Richland...
The Tri-Cities’ higher education campuses don’t have many students on campus this fall.The coronavirus pandemic sent the majority to remote learning platforms at Washington State University Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin College for the fall.But that doesn’t mean they aren’t planning for their students’ eventual return to campus.Both institutions are moving...
The Tri-Cities — Washington’s only metro without a detox and drug rehabilitation facility — could see a 1950s-era hospital in the heart of Kennewick renovated to meet the growing need for local services.The former Kennewick General Hospital, currently used a birthing center by Trios Health, will become the Two Rivers...
Kadlec Regional Medical Center and the Tri-Cities Cancer Center have committed to maintaining the cancer center as a distinct entity following a tumultuous year that saw Lourdes and Trios withdraw as owner/partners of the cancer care center after they were acquired by a for-profit medical company.
The former Tri-City Herald building, the largest and newest privately-owned office building in downtown Kennewick, has new tenants.Vivid Learning Systems, owned by private equity-backed Health & Safety Institute, leased space at 333 W. Canal Drive, a decision that promises to bring more professionals to downtown Kennewick and bolster the fortunes...
At least five fast-food restaurants in the Tri-Cities are being remodeled — from plumbing upgrades to major overhauls that entail tearing out playgrounds and walls, remodeling bathrooms and kitchens and putting up the latest in electronic gadgetry.The remodels closed a McDonald’s in Kennewick’s Southridge area, a Taco Bell in north...
By Markus Stauffer and Richard GerlitzThe Horse Heaven Hills wind farm project planned by Scout Clean Energy (Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business, May 2020) would stretch along 24 miles of ridgeline from south of the Tri-Cities at Jump-Off Joe Butte to near Benton City.As many as 212 wind turbines would...
When will the pandemic end?It’s the question we’re all asking, but aside from adhering to official guidance around social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks, it’s one that we’re powerless to influence. What will the world look like once the virus is behind us? What will Washington’s economy look like?We may not...
It was Dec. 13, 2007, when then Kennewick police Chief Marc Harden and his wife, Deana, invited Tri-City Herald editorial page editor Matt Taylor and his wife, Bonnie, to dinner to talk about the formation of a group in the Tri-Cities to discuss matters political, social, and on occasion, just...
To the editor:The Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business should discontinue use of the word “free” when referring to products and services being offered at no direct cost to the recipient. Whether an article promotes free meals, free Covid tests, or, in this case free business advice (“7,271 Washington businesses got...
