A longtime provider of in-home private health care in Eastern Washington and Idaho has bought AtHome Care, which has an office in Kennewick.Liberty Lake-based Family Home Care acquired AtHome Care, a 30-year provider of in-home services based in Boise, Idaho, with offices in Kennewick and Spokane. The acquisition was finalized...

Social Security recipients will receive a modest increase in their benefits next year after getting no cost-of-living adjustments in 2016.Benefits for more than 65 million Americans will increase 0.3 percent in 2017, the Social Security Administration announced last month.The cost-of-living adjustment will begin with benefits payable to Social Security beneficiaries...

The Tri-Cities posted its lowest unemployment rate of the year in September, 5.9 percent, up from 5.5 percent a year ago.The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent in September with the state adding 20,000 jobs, according to preliminary estimates from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.The state’s...

A training center for agricultural workers is scheduled to open Dec. 1. in Kennewick.Lacey-based Wafla, formerly known as Washington Farm Labor Association, opened in 2006 and this will be its first training center, said George Zanatta of Kennewick, Wafla’s chief operating officer.“We are planning to utilize the Kennewick office for...

The Columbia Basin Badger Club is holding a forum on what a Trump-led America will look like.Proposals on term limits for Congress, immigration reform, trade, foreign, energy and economic policy along with tax cuts for everyone are being proposed by President-elect Donald Trump. The club’s two speakers plan to go...

Veterans are finding an easier time finding work in the Columbia Basin.The statewide jobless rate for veterans is 3.8 percent, while the state jobless figure is 6.9 percent. In 2015, the veterans’ jobless rate for Richland and Kennewick was 3 percent, according to the U.S. Census.“It is lower than the...