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.
Hundreds of fired probationary employees from the U.S. Department of Energy are returning to work but they may have to go through a new hire onboarding process and face the looming possibility of being fired again.
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.
The repercussions of a mid-February layoff of hundreds of probationary federal employees at the Bonneville Power Administration, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford field office continue to be felt across the Mid-Columbia.
