State Sen. Matt Boehnke, along with state Reps. April Connors and Stephanie Barnard, are asking their constituents to save the date for their first town hall meeting of 2025.

Requested by the Department of Ecology, the agency would issue standards that match those published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “as it existed on January 1, 2025,” according to the bill.

A PNNL team designed the new system to require significantly less starting material while delivering results equal to the standard lab-scale test systems, all with the intent to speed the time to discovery of new grid energy storage technology. 

The commercial builder, which maintains offices in Kennewick, was among several construction companies recognized in the annual awards of the Inland Northwest chapter of the Association of General Contractors. 

Federal lawmakers from Washington state and Oregon have criticized the layoffs, saying they are going to cripple cleanup efforts at the nation’s largest nuclear contaminated site and a power grid that supplies power to multiple states and hundreds of thousands of consumers. 

Move over housing, grocery bills are here to take the top spot on the list of financial burdens for Washington residents.

The Bonneville Power Administration reports that it expects part of its operations to end the year with less than two months’ cash on hand and that could trigger an automatic power rate increase.

Kennewick-based Cascade Natural Gas Corp. could be required to pay a $1 million fine if the state’s utilities and transportation commission agrees with its staff’s findings that the company violated an agreement regarding the safety of its pipelines.

Washington state will see 21 of Joann stores close as the company prepares for a sale after recently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

After Lamb Weston’s abrupt departure from Connell left hundreds unemployed and the city’s budget devastated, the community now may have a clearer path to bringing a new company to town.