Recently released employment data reveals a mixed economic picture for Benton and Franklin counties, with falling unemployment rates and modest gains in private sector employment across the Tri-Cities region. 

Young Americans in the midst of starting their career paths are eager to find work and be successful, but neither their families, educators nor employers are preparing them or providing tools they need. 

Dozens of unionized Hanford site workers suddenly ordered in mid-June to begin packing their offices as part of an office consolidation may not have to start putting boxes together just yet.

Workers injured on the job and collecting benefits through the state’s workers’ compensation system will be getting a bump in their payments. 

Washington is one of five states most dependent on H-2A workers in the country -- whose numbers have ballooned in the last decade to about 33,000. 

The shifts largely came from the agricultural sector, as nonfarm employment increased by several hundred positions between April and May.