Simplot Feeders LLP has agreed to pay a reduced state fine and invest in a project to reduce small-particle pollution at their beef cattle feedlot operation in Walla Walla County.The Washington Department of Ecology fined the company $50,000 in 2015 for failing to manage air pollution, including dust and dried manure, at...
As part of the transformation of the historic Walla Walla Train Depot building, a 1950s-era train dining car was lifted and moved by a pair of giant Liebherr cranes operated by Kennewick’s Lampson International. The rail car was moved to its new location on the north side of the depot building on March 27.Walla Walla Steak...
The Kennewick School District will hold a teacher job fair April 12 at the Administration Center, 1000 W. Fourth Ave.The schedule is as follows: 5-6:30 p.m. for secondary positions, or grades 6-12; and 6:30-8 p.m. for elementary positions, or grades K-5.Those planning to attend the job fair should: Apply for jobs they...
A Richland woman will never forget the day she finished the quilt she spent months designing, sewing and making.It was the morning her 92-year-old mother died.Leslie Kelly started planning the king-size quilt nearly a year before as a donation to Rebuilding Mid-Columbia.The nonprofit built a wheelchair ramp for Kelly’s mother,...
Beck Royer admitted she was pretty picky about who would care for her aging mother in Kennewick.The Seattle woman, a physician’s assistant for 31 years, knew she found the right place with Tender Care Village.The new nonprofit, which was registered with the state a year ago, is part of a...
Sen. Patty Murray delivered the keynote address at Tri-City Development Council's investor meeting and luncheon March 29 at the Pasco Red Lion.“I’m never going to stop fighting for things like Hanford cleanup,” Murray said, adding that the federal government has a “legal and moral obligation to clean up Hanford in...
The Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce announced its Business on a Roll Award winners March 28 during its annual meeting and awards luncheon in Kennewick.Winners were Burt Tax and Accounting of Kennewick (10 or fewer employees), Teknologize of Kennewick (11 to 50 employees) and I-3 Global of Kennewick (more than 50 employees).The awards...
A Tri-City radiology group has announced plans to merge with a Spokane clinic.Columbia Basin Imaging of the Tri-Cities, and Inland Imaging PS of Spokane are combining their professional radiology groups, effective this September.CBI will be folded into Inland Imaging as part of the merger.CBI, made up of a Tri-City-based group...
Elected officials and community leaders slipped into firefighter gear and learned how to put out car and Dumpster fires, navigate their way through a smoky building, climb an aerial ladder to the top of a seven-story building, pry open metal doors and wield chainsaws to ventilate a roof fire.It was...
Claire's, a mall-based jewelry and accessories retail chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 19.Claire’s operates 7,500 stores -- including its Icing brand -- worldwide. Columbia Center mall in Kennewick has both Claire’s and Icing stores.The company, which was founded in 1961, plans to reduce its debt by...
