The Pasco City Council discussed the future of the DPDA on Feb. 12, with city staff recommending the group be dissolved. The council didn’t make a final decision during the workshop session but is expected to pick the topic up again at a future meeting.

The airport  is adding a new flight — and with it a new airline — this month, and it’s planning for some longer-term facility improvements to pave the way for continued growth.

A new custom-built home – called the Summit on Red Mountain – will be available starting in May for short-term stays and events.

A long-planned intermodal ramp in Wallula has opened and is moving containers.

With a mounting doctor shortage across the country, state and locally, this local doctor did most of her medical training in the region and then chose to stay in the Tri-Cities area to practice medicine.

Zeno Power has secured a radioactive isotope that will be used as fuel in its radioisotope power systems, or RPSs.

Rosemary Merckx, 95, has a studio in her apartment where she paints what inspires her. She’d taken a break from art for a while, but then during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she had a renaissance of sorts.

The company’s “knowing and fraudulent conduct resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars to the United States, while jeopardizing the safety of Hanford site workers, the public, and the environment by failing to effectively use public dollars to perform critical fire protection work,” prosecutors said.

StarCycle is a boutique indoor cycling studio. Classes are led by an instructor, set to music and conducted in candlelight.

Vatik Dulo of the Camas, Washington-based Akula Group and investor Ryan Foster are negotiating to buy a 13,077-square-foot parcel in the former airport that's now envisioned as a vibrant, walkable mixed-use development. A purchase and sale agreement is expected to come before the Port of Kennewick commission soon.