The Montana-based company building a multimillion indoor greenhouse in Pasco has named a new CEO as part of a cost-saving restructuring plan. The changes won't affect plans to open the Pasco greenhouse at 950 S. Elm Ave. It is on track to begin seeding plants in early January.

Pasco's public works director is stepping down.

Employer groups in Washington state recently filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s new water quality standards for Washington state. The suit alleges the EPA’s standards are “so stringent that compliance cannot even be measured, much less achieved.”

A Southridge High School senior is helping to arrange student testimony to promote a proposed state bill that would require financial education before graduating from high school.

Bechtel recently reached a key milestone in its quest to turn hazardous Hanford waste into vitrified glass. The company, which oversees the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, known around the Tri-Cities as the vit plant, completed the first set of test glass pours into a stainless-steel storage container designed to hold vitrified radioactive and chemical waste.

New Gesa members who are referred by a current member and have a promo code must open a savings account, a SmartPlus Checking account and a consumer debit card, and then every swipe by the new member means one entry into the monthly $50,000 giveaway. The contest runs through Dec. 31.

Restaurants and new developments around the Tri-Cities are always popular with our online readers, and our 10 most-read stories of 2023 show it.
These stories cover several developing properties, restaurant ownership changes and the elusive second Costco among other topics.
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