The new owners of the Tri-City Country Club are working to shed the 79-year-old private club’s longtime reputation as a members-only golf course by making the greens public and overhauling the private restaurant into a high-end steakhouse and sports lounge.Members of the Kennewick country club voted unanimously Oct. 3 to...

David and Hanna Goss knew they were on to something when they started feeding their backyard birds with seed sold by Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop.“Our neighbors started complaining because the birds weren’t coming over to their house anymore,” Hanna Goss said.Apparently, word of beak spread throughout the bird community.It’s...

A weekend DJ on U-Rock Radio admitted he didn’t know much about ’80s rock music when he started.Age might have something to do with it. Mitchel Denke is a senior at Kamiakin High School, born around the turn of the century. But joining the station has turned him into a...

Cougar Digital Marketing & Design’s business plan has evolved over timeTravis Hartliep wasn’t sure how long his startup company would last when he began it out of his then Tri-Cities home in 2012.Back then, Cougar Digital Marketing & Design LLC was just him, with his wife Erika helping out.“To be...

The Areva NP plant in Richland has been investing an average of $7 million a year into its nuclear fuel manufacturing company for the last decade.It’s a trend that appears to be continuing.In the past four months, the nuclear fuel manufacturing plant has announced: Plans to build a new $12...

Owner of Tri-City Dental Care also designs, sells neckties with nephewRichland’s Antonio Lopez-Ibarra runs a relatively new dental practice, Tri-City Dental Care, in the Southridge area. Dr. Antonio Lopez-Ibarra, a Kennewick dentist, shows off some of the neckties he and his nephew design and sell. He and Noel Lopez own...

Brianna Cervantes wanted to be a photographer when she was a little kid.Then at the age of 15, she found coffee, and her life changed.“I worked at Dutch Brothers for a year and a half,” she said. “I actually wanted to be a franchisee at Dutch Brothers. I tried three...

Experts say many new homeowners choosing pools as economy improvesAs temperatures in the Mid-Columbia soar to triple digits, wouldn’t it be nice to have a swimming pool to cool off in?You better plan ahead then. Don’t wait until June or July.“Most builders should be scheduling jobs three to six months...

Dave Mitcham has been in the restaurant business for 45 years.He says that’s enough.Mitcham and his wife, Darci, have put Cedars Restaurant on the market after owning it for 11 years.The asking price for their waterfront restaurant on Kennewick’s Clover Island Inn is $2.62 million.Rob Ellsworth and Scott Sautell of...