Benton and Franklin counties will mail ballots in late January for a series of school funding requests that, if approved, will affect local property taxes.Ballots must be returned or postmarked by Election Day, Feb. 14, to count.Wondering where drop boxes are in Benton County? Click here. If you're in Franklin...

Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia.The State Environmental Review Act, or SEPA, often provides the first look at the mixed-use projects, mini storage facilities, apartments, industrial expansions, subdivisions and more that are working their way through the various...

The Port of Pasco has secured $3.6 million to extend railroad tracks to the future Darigold Inc. processing plant now under construction at Reimann Industrial Park near Highway 395.U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both Washington Democrats, sponsored the port’s request for funds with support from U.S. Rep. Dan...

The Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business and Senior Times newspapers will have new ownership as of Dec. 30.Tri Comp Inc., which publishes the Journal and Senior Times, and Cowles Company, a fourth-generation Spokane business with holdings in the news, broadcasting, real estate, printing and other industries, have reached an agreement...

Seventy years ago, the soldiers of Camp Hanford built a giant Santa Claus and placed him, his sleigh and his reindeer on the main building of the post.It was a cheerful addition to Camp Hanford in Richland, which served as headquarters for the Army’s 5th Anti-Aircraft Group, which was charged...

Gov. Jay Inslee will seek $10 million in 2023 to establish the Institute for Northwest Energy Futures at Washington State University Tri-Cities.The move fulfills the dream of the late Bob Ferguson, an influential U.S. Department of Energy and Energy Northwest executive who endowed the institute’s first chair with a $500,000...

The Lodge at Columbia Point is sacrificing two guest rooms to make space for a proper kitchen for its Drumheller’s restaurant.The wine-themed boutique hotel opened with 82 rooms and no restaurant in 2017. It initially offered wine tastings and bar service on the first floor, with event space on the...

A group of Kennewick women lean on their business-savvy skills to keep their neighborhood’s longtime Tri-City tradition alive.Debie Britton, Sandy Nettleton and Dayna Faultersack are the organized women who take the transformation of their Kennewick subdivision into Christmas Carol Lane very seriously.Six years ago, the women resurrected the holiday tradition...

As local emergency rooms, urgent care centers and walk-in clinics fill with patients reporting respiratory distress, Tri-City doctors have a plea to employers: Be flexible.If an employee calls in sick, do not require a note from a doctor.Sick employees who can’t immediately access doctors often turn to emergency rooms that...

A Nov. 30 order from the Washington State Supreme Court is injecting confusion into the controversy surrounding a capital gains tax approved by the 2021 Legislature.The state’s high court said the Department of Revenue may begin collecting the tax in 2023 pending its own future ruling in a case that...