Five transportation projects for sidewalks, overlays and road construction across the Mid-Columbia region will receive nearly $6 million from a state agency.

A nuclear energy future comes with the challenge of how to store the radioactive spent fuel used to create it.

The developer planning a wind farm in the Horse Heaven Hills had already intended to scale back the number of turbines before the state recently restricted the project over nesting concerns for endangered ferruginous hawks. The revised plan now calls for fewer turbines, but ones that are taller, with larger blades, and potentially located closer to the Tri-Cities.

A recent report from a council of state agencies leading Washington’s transition to clean energy points to a growing concern beyond generating clean power: being able to move it around the state.

The planned construction and powering of four initial small modular reactors north of Richland is still years away, but the company behind their design is moving to ensure they have the advanced fuel they’ll need.

The long-operating packaging manufacturing plant in Wallula will cut 200 jobs by the end of March 2026 as it permanently shutters part of the facility to cut production costs. 

Affected positions range from those working in IT, software, mechanical and nuclear engineering, as well as roles connected to national security, cybersecurity research, chemistry, earth science and administration. 

A solar installation company that started in Pasco and was once on Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America appears to be closing down.