A group of Mid-Columbia irrigators and the Washington Department of Ecology are sparring over a long-planned housing project for agricultural workers west of Paterson along the Columbia River.
Franklin County’s administrator recently spoke with the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation about transforming the Pasco’s HAPO Center into a tribal casino, saying if there’s any tribe the county should be talking to, it’s the Yakamas.
As the effort to recall all three Port of Benton commissioners moves toward the ballot, two new fronts have opened in the fight: a commissioner-backed committee has formed to stop it, and the port’s suspended executive director is now suing to change how the port investigates her case.
The U.S. Department of Energy has officially reclassified some waste being stored in tanks at the Hanford site, paving the way for it to be treated by a means different than vitrification.
Pasco City Council’s recent decision to approve an application for a fifth cannabis retailer within city limits and initiate the code amendment process to allow it was followed by applause – but it wasn’t a celebratory moment for everyone.
The developer the Port of Pasco dismissed after failing for years to break ground on its planned vision for Osprey Pointe says in court documents the port’s current executive director is the reason it was forced out.
A homebuilder with projects throughout the Mid-Columbia will pay $1.6 million as part of a settlement with the Washington Attorney General’s Office, but the company is pushing back against justice officials’ characterization of the dispute.
Kennewick’s Grace Clinic is bracing for a surge in patients. The free medical and dental clinic – the only one serving both Benton and Franklin counties – expects demand to spike as Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies expire and Medicaid eligibility rules tighten under H.R. 1, the federal budget law also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
