Even as potential budget cuts and other shifts at the federal level introduce complications in the Hanford site’s cleanup mission, progress on initiatives is continuing, according to one Hanford site official.

“When you walk in the convention center that morning, the … female, positive, encouraging energy is just palpable … and I loved being a part of that.”

Q&A with Lindsey Myhre, president and CEO of STCU.

A local credit union has launched a new program with cool prizes to encourage kids to start saving money.

Two wealth management companies based in the Tri-Cities and three other businesses with offices here are among the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the country, according to Inc. business magazine’s annual list.

Those relying on Washington state’s Exchange health plans are about to pay a lot more for health care in the next year. 

A monument honoring the first servicemember from Kennewick killed in the Vietnam War will be rededicated following a community-led restoration effort. 

A popular crepe shop in Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center is changing hands as its founding owner focuses on other parts of his business and family. 

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Sept. 9 pushed back against media reports that he is seeking a “different direction” to the environmental cleanup effort at the Hanford site, including halting work on a treatment facility on the cusp of becoming operational. 

The early shutoff has implications for the late harvest crops of the Roza Irrigation District. About two-thirds of the district’s crops, such as apples and wine grapes, are harvested after Sept. 15.