Pasco residents can begin catching rides via Uber in their city starting Dec. 28 - just in time for New Year’s Eve celebrations.The ride-sharing is possible because the Pasco City Council earlier this month passed new for-hire regulations eliminating a fingerprint requirement allowing the operation of transportation network companies like...
Landowners near Moses Lake have been fined for illegally pumping more than 500 million gallons of groundwater from the declining Odessa aquifer.The state Washington Department of Ecology issued cease and desist orders requiring the landowners and their lessee to stop pumping groundwater in June. Ignoring the orders, they continued pumping...
A senior administrator at Metropolitan State University of Denver has been named the new chancellor of Washington State University Tri-Cities. Sandra HaynesSandra Haynes begins March 1. She currently is deputy provost and vice president of academic affairs and a professor in the Department of Human Services at the Denver university....
The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers and tax professionals of a new email scam targeting Hotmail users that is being used to steal personal and financial information.The phishing email subject line reads: “Internal Revenue Service Email No. XXXX | We’re processing your request soon | TXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX”. The email leads...
A Richland-based engineering firm is teaming up with a Maryland-based company on a five-year $400 million contract with the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration.DOE recently awarded Link Technologies Inc. with a technical, engineering and programmatic support services blanket purchase agreement.Under this agreement, Link Technologies, a...
The senior living community formerly known as Charbonneau is now called Solstice Senior Living at Kennewick.The change is the result of a national joint venture between the property’s ownership group, NorthStar Healthcare Income Inc., and Integral Senior Living, a national provider of senior living management services. Terms of the agreement...
Our annual list of the most-read stories on the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business’ website covered a range of topics — from restaurant sales, moves and closures and hotel openings to Trios Health’s financial crisis, float spas and supercars.A story we wrote last year about the opening of Panera Bread...
Habitat hires interim director, kicks off fundraiserTri-County Partners Habitat for Humanity has named Theresa Richardson as the organization’s interim executive director.She previously served as the executive director from 2002-12The nonprofit’s goal is to build 10 more homes in 2018, but is in “urgent need of help from the community,” according...
HONORSPacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Graham Parker won a lifetime energy efficiency leadership award from the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.The Tom Eckman Leadership in Energy Efficiency Award recognizes Parker for a career spanning more than 40 years where he advocated for and advanced the cause of energy efficiency in the Northwest...
Bankruptcies are filed under the following chapter headings:Chapter 7 — Straight Bankruptcy: debtor gives up non-exempt property and debt is charged.Chapter 11 — Allows companies and individuals to restructure debts to repay them.Chapter 12 — Allows family farmers to restructure finances to avoid liquidation for foreclosure. Chapter 13 — Plan...
