Hundreds of federal employees throughout the state have filed for unemployment benefits since Jan. 20, with more than 150 doing so between Feb. 13-18 alone. 

Benton-Franklin Trends’ Patrick Jones crunches the data on the bicounty’s per adult capita value of investment income and offers several reasons why investment income is relatively low here.

Proposed legislation in Olympia aims to ease the burden of child care costs for Washington families by allowing businesses to help their employees pay for it. If put into law, businesses could reduce the amount they spend on business and occupation taxes by the amount they pay for child care assistance to workers.

The state added nearly 12,000 jobs in the final month of 2024, putting the unemployment rate at its lowest point for the year. It is still up slightly from December 2023 and still above the current national unemployment rate of 3.8%. 

As the Tri-Cities works to position itself as a clean energy hub, a new college program aims to help fill the workforce pipeline that’s necessary to turn this vision into a reality.

Many federal employees who currently work remotely could lose some of their pay if a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, passes Congress. 

Despite the worst of the health crisis having passed, one of its enduring legacies is the sharp rise in labor costs.

A large American technology company wants to build a data center campus in Wallula – a project that would drive hundreds of jobs and nearly $5 billion in private capital investment in the area.

Washington is home to a unique leadership program – taught in both English and Spanish – that focuses leadership principles on the realities of working in agriculture. 

A handful of Tri-Cities elementary schools have been designated as “laboratory schools,” offering teacher candidates at Washington State University Tri-Cities a chance to learn in various classrooms.