A popular Walla Walla furniture store now open in Richland offers customers custom and consignment furniture and eclectic home décor.Main Street Furniture opened a Tri-City branch in November at 950 Keene Road in the Queensgate Village.Kelly and Dave Belcher opened their Walla Walla store at 128 E. Main St. in...

Olivia Berg admits her new business is a bit unusual for the Tri-Cities.But that’s a good thing, she insists.[blockquote quote="Our goal is to encourage creativity, local industry, charity and sustainability in a way that is relevant to consumers." source="Olivia Berg, owner of BlankSpace" align="right" max_width="300px"]BlankSpace, which is tentatively scheduled to...

Auntie Anne’s pretzel shop at Columbia Center mall soon will open a shop inside the Walmart Super Center off Road 68 in Pasco.And if the new store proves to be a lucrative move for franchise owners Chris and Lore’K Garofola and Man Lam, then the public might start seeing Auntie...

Tri-City area governments are saving money after installing low-energy, long-lasting streetlights.The city of West Richland was the first to implement an emission-reduction policy six years ago that would save energy as well as money, said Drew Woodruff, West Richland’s city engineer.“The city had about 1,100 streetlights that were all high pressure sodium...

Northwest Public Television is planning to create a television series that will showcase Northwest wine, beer and other spirits.The weekly show, which does not have a designated air time and start date yet, will take an informative and fun look at the wine industry while covering the people involved with...

It was 1947 when Robert Dunlap and his wife loaded all their worldly possessions into the rumble seat of a 1937 Ford convertible and headed to Tri-Cities from St. Paul, Minn. He was 24 years old.[blockquote quote="I never needed a fancy studio to work in because I can paint anywhere."...

Howard Crosby, 63, spent a lot of time golfing with his famous uncle, Bing Crosby, but he never even thought about singing with the renowned crooner.“Unfortunately, we never sang together,” he said. “I discovered I had a natural ability to sing while in college, but it was just for fun...

The Allied Arts Association in Richland was started by a group of women whose husbands worked for the Manhattan Project at Hanford in 1943. Two silk mosaic creations, by Las Vegas artist Prince Duncan-Williams, hang in the Allied Arts Gallery at 89 Lee Blvd., Richland. The large artworks look like...

[blockquote quote="Vista Field is a great location for a performing arts center and will add to the quality of life here." source="Steve Wiley, Task Force chairman" align="right" max_width="300px"]Local arts advocates have campaigned for more than 50 years to get a state-of-the-art performing arts center built in the Tri-Cities. That dream...