Auditors found evidence of the alleged fraud while conducting a routine audit in 2024, according to the investigation’s findings. The clerk-treasurer was arrested on charges related to the embezzled funds around that same time.
The city of Pasco encourages nonprofits focused on creating jobs for low-income residents and other efforts to support and improve the community to apply for community development block grants by the end of May.
Oregon-based Community Bank’s 10 branches in southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon will close Friday to integrate into the credit union after months of preparation, according to a release. They will remain closed on Monday before reopening on the following day.
City and Benton County officials will have a signing ceremony May 8 celebrating the city leasing the entire first floor of the Benton County Courthouse as well as the attached annex building.
The newest stretch of the busy Richland road connects the previously separated portions of Queensgate Drive, with the northern portion passing over Interstate 182 to the shopping centers surrounding the intersection with Duportail Street and the southern portion winding through residential areas to summit the saddle between Badger Mountain and Little Badger.
Nearly $5 million in federal funding is being cut off to joint programs of Heritage University and Yakima-based Educational Service District (ESD) 105 to train and place school-based mental health providers.
Labcorp will take on Incyte’s multiple same-day testing day labs as well as Incyte’s main anatomic pathology laboratory in Spokane, and its labs in Richland, Tukwila and Missoula.
The 4,400-square foot building, which has large windows overlooking the intersection of Clearwater Avenue and Edison Street, is one of three buildings in Marineland Plaza, the originally ocean-themed shopping center developed by Warren Luke in the late 1980s.
A Selah-based juice maker is celebrating its recent rebrand by inviting its fans to engage with its social media accounts for an opportunity to win up to $5,000 in free groceries.
