One of the state’s largest milk producers has reached a settlement with an environmental group related to pollution from its processing facility in Sunnyside. 

It was a mixed bag for Lamb Weston in its latest quarterly report, where company officials noted net sales increased quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year but net income declined. 
 

A Richland-based nonprofit focused on promoting and protecting the contributions of farmworkers is among nine organizations across the state to share in $1.1 million in workplace safety grants. 

A global beverage company’s Walla Walla bottling and manufacturing plant is shutting down, putting 58 people out of work. 

A Kennewick-based ice maker and distributor, in partnership with a similar Oregon-based company, has acquired manufacturing, distribution and customer assets of one of its competitors, creating the largest packaged ice manufacturing network in the Pacific Northwest. 

The global potato processor with a large presence in the Mid-Columbia is shuffling more new faces into its top leadership roles as it continues to recover from sluggish sales and other challenges from past years. 

One of the tenants at Pasco’s Reimann Industrial Center hasn’t even broke ground yet but is already planning to more than double its footprint at the quickly-filling industrial park.

Immigrants not legally authorized to work in the U.S. represent an estimated 40% of the people who help to produce many fruits, vegetables and other labor-intensive crops. 

Lamb Weston officials were upbeat in their latest quarterly report, with net sales and gross profit climbing by tens of millions of dollars compared to the same quarter last year. 

A $250,000 state grant to upgrade a former apple processing facility in Sunnyside will help preserve dozens of jobs while also providing a new buyer for the region’s orchards.