A longtime Bechtel leader is taking over as project director of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known as the vit plant, at the Hanford nuclear site.
Brian Hartman, a senior vice president, has been with Bechtel for 40 years.
The former Roasters coffee shops in the Tri-Cities are once again changing hands.
Wake Up Call, a Spokane-based coffee company known for its red phone booths, is the new owner and operator of the shops, which most recently belonged to the Oregon-based Black Rock Coffee Bar. Black Rock bought...
Franklin PUD is one of several agencies sharing in $121 million in grant dollars to deliver high-speed internet access to unserved and underserved communities around the state.
The Washington State Broadband Office announced the grants on May 16.
Nearly 20 workers with ties to the Tri-Cities were honored when the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries held a Workers’ Memorial Day service on April 27.
The agency added 129 people to the list of 2,000-plus workers whose deaths were tied...
A noted Tri-City developer is being remembered as a loving husband and father with “the biggest heart” and a passion for building things that added value and beauty to the community.
Jose Alfredo “Fred” Chavallo, 60, died unexpectedly on May 6.
Workers at the Packaging Corporation of America-owned mill in Wallula are being laid off and the plant will temporarily idle due to “economic conditions,” the company said in a statement.
The Illinois-based company expects to resume operations at the mill later this...
Institute for Northwest Energy Futures receives state funding
The state has earmarked $7.7 million for the 2023-25 biennium to hire researchers and staff and secure a new facility to house Washington State University Tri-Cities’ Institute for Northwest Energy Futures, or INEF.
INEF soft-launched last year as a new institute to...
