A new mobile book and gift shop has been officially open for about a month, setting up shop outside eateries and bars across the Tri-Cities.

Kadlec has shifted to a new medium to use in its ventilators and similar respiratory therapy equipment that is just as effective and safer to handle. It also will net the hospital about $20,000 per year in cost savings.

Columbia Basin College’s intention to offer a new bachelor’s of applied science degree in respiratory therapy as early as fall 2025 is a breath of fresh air for Tri-City area hospitals.

Three pediatricians decided to take a leap of faith and have lauched their own practice in west Pasco.

Tri-City lawmakers have seen some of the bills they are sponsoring or co-sponsoring –concerning housing, career and higher education and even littering – survive the first cutoff for consideration during the 2025 legislative session.

Federal lawmakers from Washington state and Oregon have criticized the layoffs, saying they are going to cripple cleanup efforts at the nation’s largest nuclear contaminated site and a power grid that supplies power to multiple states and hundreds of thousands of consumers. 

Kennewick-based Cascade Natural Gas Corp. could be required to pay a $1 million fine if the state’s utilities and transportation commission agrees with its staff’s findings that the company violated an agreement regarding the safety of its pipelines.

After Lamb Weston’s abrupt departure from Connell left hundreds unemployed and the city’s budget devastated, the community now may have a clearer path to bringing a new company to town.

A $100,000 state grant to study potential industrial sites in Connell may provide a path to economic sustainability for a community still dealing with the closure of its largest employer.

HAPO Community Credit Union’s pending acquisition of Community First Bank has led the financial institution to buy land for a new home for its growing team.