Basin Pacific Insurance and Benefits’ new building has space for leaseCustomers of the local Basin Pacific Insurance andBenefits branch won’t find the business at its old location on Gage Boulevardin Kennewick.The company has moved to a new, bigger location at 6917W. Grandridge Blvd., Unit 1, along one of the major...

Project will use local suppliers, contractors; facility will be between 110,000 to 145,000 square feetA $64.2 million contract has beenawarded to a Houston-based partnership to design and build a new energysciences building at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland.Construction could start later thisyear or in early 2020 on the building...

Regional manufacturing jobs to grow 1.84 percent this yearManufacturing jobs in Benton andFranklin counties are expected to grow at a faster rate than the state averageas food manufacturing rebounds in 2019. Locally, there are more than 8,100manufacturing jobs, which accounts for about 7 percent of total nonfarmemployment in 2018, according...

Plastic Injection Molding expansion allows for improved capacity, speedA north Richland company is poised forgrowth with the addition of a new 28,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in theback of its existing building that includes a 4,000-square-foot mezzanine.Plastic Injection Molding Inc.manufactures filter body parts for agricultural irrigation, special parts formedical diagnostic equipment, and...

Partnership to ensure continued nuclear explosion monitoringMedical isotopes are used daily around the world tovisualize and diagnose cancer, heart disease and other seriousailments. However, their production can emit gasses that, while posing nodanger to the public, have features that look similar to those produced by anuclear explosion.The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest...

Family-owned business also offers photography classesJim and Karen Pridemore have opened anew business at 627 The Parkway in Richland that aims to create lastingmemories.Picture Yourself is acreate-it-yourself studio for photography and videography in which customerscan rent studio time by the hour or pay for a monthly membership.The company offers various...

C and E Trenching has been digging dirt for 25 yearsCurtis Wray can be pretty self-effacingand humble.When asked what he sees his company, Cand E Trenching LLC and himself doing in five years, he said he doesn’t knowhow to do anything else.His father, Everett Wray, bought thebusiness in 1994 —...

By Kris JohnsonThe66th Legislature convened Jan. 14 and is slated to end April 28. During thattime, the top job for lawmakers is to craft the state’s two-year operatingbudget.Thegood news is they have record tax collections to work with — more than  $50 billion for the 2019-21 budget cycle.Kris Johnson, Association...

This Valentine’s Day and beyond, millions of Americans are meetingothers on matchmaking websites, dating apps and social media. But not all thosenew connections are meant to be, as 37 percent of Washington residents polledin a new AARP survey (aarp.org/onlineromancescams)reported that they, a family member or a friend have encountered attemptedfinancial scams...