A local initiative aimed at making sure kids consistently attend school will no longer rely on a federal workforce program targeted by the Trump administration for elimination. 

Senior U.S. Department of Energy officials and government contractor executives celebrated accomplishments at DOE cleanup sites across the country during a recent meeting with U.S. representatives at the same time as Congress considers tens of millions of dollars in reductions to funding to those efforts.

A year after requesting documents on plans to lease 19,000 acres of the Hanford site for clean energy development, a conservation group is asking a federal judge to force the U.S. Department of Energy to respond. 

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it is expanding the Hanford site facility that only weeks ago faced a potential layoff of many of its workers due to withheld funding. 

President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to withdraw from a settlement with tribes and the states of Washington and Oregon that could have led to the breaching of the Snake River dams.

The Tri-Cities’ largest employer considers layoffs and furloughs in response to federal budget proposal.

An investment company linked to Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently bought 8,080 acres of farmland in southern Benton County for roughly $131.4 million. 

Employee layoffs at a Hanford site subcontractor were reportedly averted after one of the state’s U.S. senators criticized one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members for not providing budgeted funds. But more funding cuts may be on the horizon at the nuclear cleanup site.

The new leader at the state’s Women’s Commission is ready to get to work, both in advocating for women who work and also in making sure they have the resources they need.

Local leaders in the nuclear industry are applauding the U.S. Department of Energy’s recent commitment to provide the fuel needed for the next-generation of nuclear reactors to five U.S. developers working to bring that technology to the market.