A Kennewick-based hotel company’s newest Pasco hotel sold out its first two floors within days of opening, and it is already building what comes next.

This Tri-Cities startup cracked a problem the agriculture industry has struggled with for years – how to make microbes work as practical, affordable alternatives to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. And local investors are working to keep it rooted in the Tri-Cities.

With the help of artificial intelligence, research from scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland could help optimize the vitrification of nuclear waste at Hanford and other nuclear sites.

Documents filed under Washington’s environmental review process reveal a list of projects in the works for the Mid-Columbia. 

The State Environmental Policy Act, or SEPA, often provides the first look at the mixed-use projects, mini-storage facilities, apartments, industrial expansions, subdivisions and more that are working their way through the various planning departments of Benton, Franklin and Walla Walla counties. 

Here’s a look at projects that appeared in the SEPA register in the past month.  

Rooms in a 30-year-old Richland hotel are getting a refresh this summer. 

One of the three buildings associated with the historic Farmers Exchange building in downtown Kennewick has been sold to new owners after nearly a year on the market.

An anonymous donor has given a local nonprofit $500,000 toward its expansion into a new Kennewick facility – and committed to matching community donations dollar for dollar up to $1 million

Abadan outlasted the typewriter. The fax machine. Now it wants to filter your water.

After several years of sizable crops that pushed down prices, a slightly smaller harvest, stronger pricing for premium varieties and more disciplined harvesting practices helped stabilize the market this season.

This year’s cherry forecast is looking brighter after the previous year’s prices let growers down despite a large and high-quality crop.