Last spring, WSU Tri-Cities announced a new degree program after the university’s faculty senate approved expanding the Hospitality Business Management Degree to the Richland campus.[blockquote quote="One of the main reasons for bringing the program here is because of the growing wine industry." source="Dr. Robert Harrington, professor of hospitality at WSU"...

Nine-year-old Ameliea Olheiser carefully cut sample slices of her Breakfast Tostada for the judges. She was representing Cascade Elementary School in the Kennewick School District’s 2016 Sodexo Future Chefs Challenge in February at Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick.Olheiser beat out 14 other young chefs representing their Kennewick elementary schools in...

The Kennewick Public Facilities District received the nod from the Kennewick City Council in February to pursue voter approval of a .2 percent sales tax to fund a $35 million theater and expansion at the Three Rivers Convention Center.Corey Pearson, executive director of the Three Rivers Campus, has been seeking...

Plans for Columbia Gardens, an urban wine and artisan village to be built on the north side of Columbia Drive near the Cable Bridge in Kennewick will need to be amended. Bids for the project came in about $1 million higher than expected and were rejected by Port of Kennewick...