A Tri-City nonprofit will receive $1.1 million from the state Department of Commerce to support affordable housing in the Mid-Columbia.

CBC is working toward replacing the 55-year-old structure after receiving $54.5 million from state lawmakers during the 2025 legislative session. And while it’s too early to say what that new home for the college’s arts and humanities departments will look like, college leaders stress that their intent is ensuring it is just as unique as it is functional.

Q&A with VJ Meadows, executive director, Tri-Cities Food Bank.

A new retail building planned for the busy Road 68 corridor of Pasco is expected to significantly increase traffic to the already busy area, and renderings hint that a Target store may be the anticipated tenant.

After 19 years in business in a tight leased space in Kennewick, a performance car service and parts shop is planning to move to a building of its own in the Horn Rapids area of Richland. 

An influential Pasco farming family has developed the state’s first farm-to-bottle distillery and received early accolades for their premium potato vodka, taking top honors in a Best of the Northwest contest.

The Hanford site’s contractors and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s operator received much of their performance incentive payouts after facing uncertainty from a mercurial federal administration throughout 2025.

The wheels of progress on a proposed wind farm project that would stretch across dozens of miles southwest of the Tri-Cities are grinding slower after a judge recently delayed deadlines in lawsuits challenging the project.

Heritage University appears to be preparing to become a bigger player in providing higher education in the Tri-Cities.

All three of the public electric utilities serving the Tri-Cities have signed new long-term power purchase agreements with Bonneville Power Administration, a move the utilities say will provide some certainty for their operations and their customers’ future energy bills.