The Better Business Bureau and BBB Wise Giving Alliance are offering tips about giving assistance in the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma:• Verify the trustworthiness of soliciting relief.• Check the charity’s website if it has an on-the-ground presence in the affected areas. Unless the charity already has staff in...

Kennewick hospital system also considering enhanced relationship with UW MedicineTrios Health is exploring a relationship with a Tennessee-based health care system and UW Medicine that could reorganize the troubled Kennewick Public Hospital District’s existing rent and debt obligations to provide long-term viability.Trios and RCCH HealthCare Partners, based in Brentwood, Tennessee,...

Trios Health is reaching into its emergency supplies to provide free N-95 masks to the community because of the continued poor air quality.The mask will be distributed beginning at 1 p.m. today, Friday, Sept. 8.While supplies last, community members may pick up one mask per person at these Trios Health...

Unhealthy air conditions have pushed back the eighth annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s until Oct. 15.The walk had been scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 9 in Columbia Park in Kennewick.The three-mile walk is one of 16 walks throughout Washington and northern Idaho. It starts at the band shell.The national nonprofit Alzheimer’s...

By Michelle DuplerMarijuana retail sales were a nearly $1.7 billion business in Washington in the 2016 fiscal year, but business owners who are still technically breaking federal drug laws are left to ponder, “What do we do with the money?”For Steve Lee, owner of Finley-based Green2Go, the answer is to...

By Michelle DuplerThe legal marijuana business is booming for Finley-based Green2Go.The retail shop soon will move to a larger space where it can accommodate more cash registers and more customers. Steve Lee, owner of Green2Go (Courtesy Breshears Photography)Green2Go obtained a $78,200 building permit for a commercial remodel of the property...

By Andy PerdueA complete vertical of Leonetti Cellar’s legendary Cabernet Sauvignon — including perhaps the single most important wine ever made in Washington — went up for bid at the 30th annual Auction of Washington Wines and sold for $32,500.The money will establish a scholarship in a Kennewick couple’s name...

A unique user facility in Richland that has helped scientists around the world shape their ideas and find answers to some of the most challenging scientific questions celebrated two decades of achievement this month.Scientists, community leaders and others gathered Aug. 3-4 to celebrate the first 20 years of the Environmental Molecular...