Health insurers providing coverage to more than 305,000 customers across Washington state have filed requests with the state to raise the rates of their health plans in 2026 from between 9.6% and 37.3%.
The BPA project would install a 500-kilovolt substation and new 115-kilovolt transmission line as part of four projects aimed at reinforcing the region’s transmission infrastructure.
A small business owner and one of his co-defendants must pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution. Another co-defendant from Pasco is scheduled to be sentenced on July 30.
A portion of Highway 240 is closing at noon today while the Port of Benton works on railroad crossings along the roadway. Drivers will be detoured, and the route will reopen at 6 a.m. Monday, June 2.
Fewer Tri-City homes were sold in April than in the previous month, even as the typically busy home-selling season gets underway, according to the latest data from the Tri-City Association of Realtors.
Workers at the Hanford vitrification plant have begun introducing chemicals akin to tank waste into the facility’s melter in the latest step to test its systems ahead of full-scale operations.
