One out of every 10 people in the Tri-Cities is employed by a job connected to federal funding, whether through the Hanford site, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or with a subcontractor. This 13,000-person employment cluster’s impact on industries throughout the community remains significant.

Richland’s Caterpillar Cafe is ready for its next chapter, opening a third location years after it became the partner business of Adventures Underground bookstore in Richland’s Uptown Shopping Center.

Nico Flores always had a vision of opening his own shop but didn’t expect it to be in horticulture. Yet, here he is, with a blooming business offering a wide variety of indoor plants and gift items.

Café con Arte opened in January at 430 W. Columbia St., across from Peanuts Park, where Pasco’s seasonal farmers market is held. Its English translation tells you exactly what the business offers: coffee with art.

New digital pathology creates significant improvements in workload balance, subspecialty and consult optimization, case turnaround time, worksite flexibility, collaboration and communication.

The Eerkes family says they have gotten out of the petroleum and convenience store business for good.

As Tumbleweeds prepares to open a new restaurant in West Richland, it also is trying to figure out the fate of its Richland restaurant as the end of its 10-year lease approaches. 

In the midst of pandemic closures, Todd and Traci Grabner first drummed up an idea for a side gig that began to really start humming along once the community began enjoying live music performances again.
The duo formed The Live Music Junkies, first as a Facebook presence, and now as a paid service available to both venues and artists. They promote live music in all genres throughout the region.

A new Pasco liquidation store offers customers steep bargains on a whole assortment of goods, with most items priced at $5 or less daily. The inventory changes rapidly, as the employees don’t know day to day what they’ll find inside the shipments. And for those customers willing to...

Washington is poised to raise the minimum wage again at the beginning of next year, keeping it at the highest state-level in the nation. Together with proposed increases to workers’ compensation rates, the topics can be hot button issues for small business owners who often place the blame...