Senate Republicans have published the Legislature’s first budget proposal for the next biennium, and it includes full funding for a workforce program that has lifted hundreds of Benton and Franklin county residents out of poverty.
A man who was the first in his family to attend college and has held roles at multiple colleges and universities serving Black and Hispanic students is the new leader of Heritage University, which has a branch campus in Kennewick.
A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate thousands of jobs for probationary federal workers fired as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s campaign to slash the federal workforce.
As the weather warms up, Girl Scout cookie sales are coming soon to booths around the Tri-Cities, and this year will be the last season for one of the cookie flavors.
Tri-City lawmakers have seen some of the bills they are sponsoring or co-sponsoring – concerning housing, career and higher education and even littering – survive the first cutoff for consideration during the 2025 legislative session.
A recent proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage didn’t make it past the first legislative cutoff date, but it serves as a reminder of how local chambers of commerce go to bat when it comes to protecting local businesses and consumers.
The repercussions of a mid-February layoff of hundreds of probationary federal employees at the Bonneville Power Administration, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford field office continue to be felt across the Mid-Columbia.
Five leases in the region have been terminated by the Department of Government Efficiency, including in Richland. The move leaves more questions than answers.
