As Small Business Saturday arrives on Nov. 29, Tri-City retailers are hoping residents will choose to shop close to home to keep jobs and tax dollars local and support locally-owned shops. Downtown Kennewick is offering incentives for shoppers, too.
Sales from licensed cannabis producers, processors and retailers have dropped every year since 2021, with those in industry saying a variety of pressures threaten the future of the industry.
A now-closed Richland floral shop that was a flashpoint in a discrimination lawsuit for a previous owner’s refusal to provide flowers to a gay couple recently declared bankruptcy and counts its former owner among its creditors.
A coffee shop that opened in the heart of downtown Pasco almost two years ago is bringing its focus on community and creativity to a new location on the other side of the Columbia River.
Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as lawmakers fine-tune the state’s single-use plastic bag restrictions.
