A Century 21 Tri-Cities real estate agent ranked No. 1 in his brokerage and in Washington state recently spoke at the agency’s largest annual conference in Las Vegas.

A Richland gymnastics academy opened its doors in December 1986. Later this year, it hopes to open the doors on a second location in Pasco.

A prime piece of commercial property in a busy south Richland corridor is for sale.

The man who started Bouten Construction immigrated from Belgium as a young boy and went to work building houses with his father at age 13 before eventually starting his own construction company, which celebrates 80 years in business this year.

Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia.

As many longtime employees begin to reach retirement age, and as some operations and activities at the site ramp up, maintaining and bolstering the Hanford workforce – which numbers more than 11,000 people – is a mission-critical endeavor, officials said. 

A longtime Mexican restaurant turned its Kennewick restaurant into an events venue to offset increasing operational costs.

One out of every 10 people in the Tri-Cities is employed by a job connected to federal funding, whether through the Hanford site, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or with a subcontractor. This 13,000-person employment cluster’s impact on industries throughout the community remains significant.

For Hanford workers alone, about 35,000 claims have been filed on behalf of 13,000 separate people. Hanford workers have been paid $2.2 billion in compensation and benefits, representing about 15,000 claims.

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