It’s been described as a “well-kept secret.”

But the ATI Inc. plant in the Horn Rapids Industrial Park that specializes in melting titanium and titanium alloys for aerospace, defense and industrial markets may not stay that way for long.

It’s kicking off an expansion that will increase its capacity and...

With high inflation, high interest rates and an overall higher cost of living, one key market figure has been trending with record lows since the Covid-19 pandemic ended: the unemployment rate.

At 3.6%, the rate for the Tri-Cities area is well under the area’s typical historic range of 5%...

It looked like a typical business seminar, held over lunch.

Attendees sat around tables, munching on sandwiches and other light fare, while presenters took turns flipping through informational slides projected onto a large screen.

But the presenters weren’t lecturing or offering tips...

If you’re signed up for an upcoming first aid/CPR or EMT training course through Columbia Safety, make sure you check the address – the business has moved.

After outgrowing a roughly 7,500-square-foot office at 418 N. Kellogg St. in Kennewick, owner Nathan Kennedy sought out a larger, more centrally...

Q&A with Steve McCullough,  superintendent of Educational Service District 123.

They say good work – and good workers – are hard to find, but a new program in the Richland School District is helping businesses find employees while changing students’ lives in the process.

The Community Based Transition Center (CBTC) within the Richland School District assists special needs students...

More than 30 businesses across Benton and Franklin counties took the extra step of becoming state certified as a small business owned by a woman or minority woman, adding their names to an online directory and putting them in position to bid for a share of government contracts.

A Washington state transplant who pursued a love of winemaking plans to front the latest winery to set up shop in Prosser’s Vintners Village. It’s a step forward in its journey to become an all-estate grown wine label.

Enodav Wine Co. is co-owned by David Rodriguez and two family...

Aubrieann Johnson had always wanted to own her own business.

It was just that, for the longest time, the 32-year-old Pasco woman never could figure out what that would be.

It took going through some rough times before she found her answer: banana bread.

It happens to be a...

Jason Jarrett will be the first to tell customers that his products might not be the cheapest.

But no one will give them better service than the people at Central Industrial Sales Inc. (CIS) in Richland because “we kill it with service and cleanliness,” he said.

On the day of...