The number of students seeking a hospitality business management degree at the Richland campus has seen a sharp decline.

Port of Pasco officials have no intention of letting up the gas, even as its leadership is transforming with the upcoming retirement of its longtime executive director  and the recent retirement of a long-serving port commissioner.

The draft master plan for the Franklin County-owned HAPO Center recently laid out several recommendations for the roughly 100-acre area in west Pasco, which includes neighboring sports fields owned by the city of Pasco as well as Gesa Stadium, but there’s no clear path forward to make it a reality.

The Clover Island Inn has sported a new look on its facade for several months but when it will complete its transformation into a Spark by Hilton property is unknown.

Millennials are now in their 30s and even early 40s and there are conflicting narratives about how they’re faring financially as they step into middle age.

Richland voters have let the curtain fall on paying for the Tri-Cities’ first large dedicated performing arts facility with a sales tax increase.

Port of Pasco commissioners approved the hire at a special meeting on Jan. 17 and the port’s new executive director will step into the job in the coming weeks as longtime Port of Pasco Executive Director Randy Hayden retires in March. 

The company’s goal is to develop a nuclear supply chain campus with its own manufacturing facility as the anchor. That facility would come through a $3 billion investment while creating 1,000 direct jobs and another 3,000 that would support them.

Company originally planned to sell the entire development to an investor but was unable to secure financing. That led to decision to sell each of the duplexes individually.

The three plaintiffs challenging a wind and solar power facility in the Horse Heaven Hills share in their legal challenges a laundry list of how Gov. Jay Inslee, state agencies and the courts allegedly have violated everything from state environmental protection laws to local land use planning regulations and limited access to proceedings around the decision.