Following the paid suspension of Executive Director Diahann Howard, the Port of Benton approved a contract presumably to investigate her actions and appointed an interim executive director at its Jan. 14 meeting.
A longtime Port of Benton commissioner died at age 92. During his 27-year tenure on the commission, he played a pivotal role in shaping the region’s economic development.
A month after voting to terminate a partnership with JMS Development to transform Osprey Pointe into a mixed-use development, Port of Pasco commissioners have declined the developer’s offer to pay $11.5 million for the property.
The once fast-growing solar installation company that started in a Pasco garage less than a decade ago has declared bankruptcy and is shutting down all operations.
The city of West Richland is looking for applicants to fill a vacancy on its city council after voters elected one of the current council members as mayor.
The top leadership of Washington state’s largest wine producer is being tweaked roughly a month after it was bought by a longtime lower Yakima Valley farm family.
In response to increased immigration detentions across the state, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and other state lawmakers have introduced the Immigrant Worker Protection Act for the 2026 session.
A plan to embed a high-voltage cable 10 to 15 feet beneath the Columbia River to better transfer the renewable energy generated east of the Cascades to the west side is now open to public comment.
