A small, flowering corner of Kadlec offers a place of refuge for staff entrenched in hospital work or family members anxiously awaiting updates on their loved ones’ health, and it’s maintained thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers.
As the effort to recall all three Port of Benton commissioners moves toward the ballot, two new fronts have opened in the fight: a commissioner-backed committee has formed to stop it, and the port’s suspended executive director is now suing to change how the port investigates her case.
Five years ago, longtime plastics salesman René Collin was approached to start a business making high-density polyethylene pipes. Today, the concept is more than just a pipe dream: Texas-based Century Pipe LLC’s first manufacturing facility has opened its doors near Burbank.
An addiction treatment clinic that first launched in Kennewick more than a decade ago has grown to 80 locations across nine states, and in 2025, treated more than 7,000 patients in Washington.
The company behind the signs for the new Pasco Aquatic Center, Benton County Fairgrounds’ recently revamped grandstands and the Columbia Valley Center for Recovery has new owners with a bold new vision.
