A facility under construction for decades and costing tens of billions of dollars is at last transforming toxic waste stored in underground tanks at the Hanford site into a glass form for storage.
Belt-tightening and uncertainty continue to grip Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as research programs hang in the balance between a swing in federal policy toward clean energy and congressional deadlock over a federal budget.
A Dutch company planning a sustainable aviation fuel production facility southeast of the Tri-Cities has cleared an important regulatory hurdle for the project.
Lamb Weston has taken its shuttered Connell plant off the market and plans to invest millions in its Pasco plant as it starts a new fiscal year with some signs of improving fortunes.