About 1,000 acres of 7,600 acres of agricultural land northeast of Ruppert Road that make up the Lewis and Clark Ranch area in West Richland were sold – twice and for more than triple the price. And city officials said the sale was to a development company whose work includes data centers.
The Washington Supreme Court has yet to rule on the lawsuit challenging a large wind farm project outside the Tri-Cities but that hasn’t stopped the project’s developer from filing yet another change to its plans.
The latest projections of job growth for Washington state aren’t anything to write home about, but the Tri-Cities appear to be a relatively bright spot among a lackluster jobs forecast.
As the school year gets underway, it’s a time when many young adults headed to college or into the trades begin thinking about managing their own money for the first time. For those who don’t know where to begin, a Richland-based credit union has some advice.
The U.S. Department of Energy is changing how it picks members for its citizens advisory board at the Hanford site, a move critics say will diminish public knowledge and oversight of the cleanup efforts there.
An effort to shore up additional funding for a federal agency that helps roughly 100 Tri-Citians each year launch and grow businesses has secured local funding to help it continue operating.
Amazon hosted an open house in Burbank about its proposed data center in the Wallula Gap. Attendees questioned Amazon staff about reported issues connected to the company’s other data center facilities and shared their reservations about the project.
Although this local credit union only has one branch, it fills a key role in the community by offering unique benefits to its members – just like other small credit unions across the country.
