Even as potential budget cuts and other shifts at the federal level introduce complications in the Hanford site’s cleanup mission, progress on initiatives is continuing, according to one Hanford site official.

“When you walk in the convention center that morning, the … female, positive, encouraging energy is just palpable … and I loved being a part of that.”

The Medicaid population is disproportionately large in Benton and Franklin counties, compared to the state average. 

A local credit union has launched a new program with cool prizes to encourage kids to start saving money.

Two wealth management companies based in the Tri-Cities and three other businesses with offices here are among the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the country, according to Inc. business magazine’s annual list.

A monument honoring the first servicemember from Kennewick killed in the Vietnam War will be rededicated following a community-led restoration effort. 

A popular crepe shop in Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center is changing hands as its founding owner focuses on other parts of his business and family. 

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sept. 9 pushed back against media reports that he is seeking a “different direction” to the environmental cleanup effort at the Hanford site, including halting work on a treatment facility on the cusp of becoming operational. 

A new food truck serving up Mexican-style seafood is set to open next week at Columbia Gardens Artisan Village in Kennewick.  

Several technologies developed at or in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland will receive part of $35 million in federal funding to move them to the marketplace.