Washington marked a milestone Aug. 28 with the final structural beam placed on a new psychiatric facility on the Western State Hospital campus in Pierce County. A few yards away, on the other side of a 6-foot chain-link fence, a different group of workers was not there to celebrate. The handful of state employees loudly chanted their displeasure with the progress of talks on a collective bargaining agreement with negotiators from Ferguson’s budget office.
If the cost of lumber, metal and fuel are any indication, the affordability of homes isn’t going to get better any time soon, according to one analysis of building materials.
The Pacific Northwest will need a massive buildout of new energy infrastructure over the next six years to meet rising electricity demand, according to a draft regional power plan. Implementing the plan will cost the Pacific Northwest approximately $2.3 billion. And the rate of building will need to quicken to make it happen by 2032.
Franklin County’s administrator recently spoke with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation about transforming the Pasco’s HAPO Center into a tribal casino, saying if there’s any tribe the county should be talking to, it’s the Yakamas.
The hundreds of homeowners living in the Horn Rapids community in Richland could be liable for thousands of dollars each in legal fees over a lawsuit filed in 2025.
Five years ago, longtime plastics salesman René Collin was approached to start a business making high-density polyethylene pipes. Today, the concept is more than just a pipe dream: Texas-based Century Pipe LLC’s first manufacturing facility has opened its doors near Burbank.
