A Tri-City nonprofit will receive $1.1 million from the state Department of Commerce to support affordable housing in the Mid-Columbia.

CBC is working toward replacing the 55-year-old structure after receiving $54.5 million from state lawmakers during the 2025 legislative session. And while it’s too early to say what that new home for the college’s arts and humanities departments will look like, college leaders stress that their intent is ensuring it is just as unique as it is functional.

The Hanford site’s contractors and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s operator received much of their performance incentive payouts after facing uncertainty from a mercurial federal administration throughout 2025.

The wheels of progress on a proposed wind farm project that would stretch across dozens of miles southwest of the Tri-Cities are grinding slower after a judge recently delayed deadlines in lawsuits challenging the project.

Heritage University appears to be preparing to become a bigger player in providing higher education in the Tri-Cities.

All three of the public electric utilities serving the Tri-Cities have signed new long-term power purchase agreements with Bonneville Power Administration, a move the utilities say will provide some certainty for their operations and their customers’ future energy bills.

Another year, another new record for passengers flying out of the Tri-Cities Airport, though it is expected to fall short of the 500,000 people airport officials had hoped for.

A month after voting to terminate a partnership with JMS Development to transform Osprey Pointe into a mixed-use development, Port of Pasco commissioners have declined the developer’s offer to pay $11.5 million for the property. 

The 154-unit apartment complex just north of the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus in Richland, which largely caters toward its students, is on the market.