Two current flights from Tri-Cities Airport have moved into larger aircraft and a future fourth daily route to Salt Lake City will offer more than 120 seats per flight.
The public power utilities that serve the Tri-Cities see BPA’s plan to move to a new energy market as a positive one that is more likely to lead to lower costs and provide for more certainty and planning of energy distribution.
Framatome plans to double the size of its Richland facility, building it on an agricultural field it owns adjacent to the campus, to produce the next generation of fuel arrays that will power nuclear reactors, a project estimated to cost $300 million to $400 million.
An economic development effort that has pumped tens of millions of dollars into the Tri-City economy for more than 30 years is changing how it does business due to a past legal dispute with a prospective recipient of one of its loans.
A Richland flower shop at the center of a discrimination lawsuit for its previous owner’s refusal to provide flowers to a gay couple will close its doors at the end of the month.
His leadership at Hanford began in February 2019 with a limited appointment as the manager of the DOE Office of Environment Management’s Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection. He was named the permanent manager of both offices in July 2020.
