The 3 Rivers Community Foundation launched 2022 on a high note. In early February, it marshalled the resources of 20 funds to present $204,000 in grants to 36 local nonprofits, a record.Abbey Cameron, executive director of the foundation, said growth in the endowment coupled with direct donations and support from...
A cookie shop featuring a weekly rotating menu of more than 120 specialty flavors is opening next month in Richland. Crumbl Cookie plans its grand opening the week of March 24, with an official grand opening day on March 26, which is a free cookie day. The dates are tentative and could change depending on construction, inspections and permitting. The new store will serve its...
Tri-City construction topped the $1 billion mark in 2020, no thanks to the Covid-19 work stoppages, slowdowns and even a lingering shroud of smoke that bedeviled the construction industry.Overall construction dipped 13%, but homebuilding was a bright spot, according to figures compiled by the Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities. Collectively,...
There is no way to dress it up: The Covid-19 pandemic battered – and continues to batter – the Tri-Cities Airport’s business.Its years-long record of passenger growth collapsed in 2020, which recorded 188,959 boardings, 57% fewer than 2019.The news was bad, but Airport Director Buck Taft said he felt duty...
The former Sports Authority store at Kennewick’s Columbia Center will reopen this spring as Veterans Warehouse Thrift Store, the second outpost for a Wenatchee nonprofit focused on supporting homeless and struggling veterans.Operation Veterans Assistance & Humanitarian Aid is converting the 40,000-square-foot retail space into a full-service thrift store that will...
One of the region’s largest farm operations has hired a Nevada firm to restructure its multimillion-dollar business as it navigates a stunning claim it falsified records for 200,000 cattle and a subsequent bankruptcy.Easterday Ranches Inc. of Pasco hired Paladin Management Group LLC in a sign the Easterday board is looking...
Wallula paper mill fined $28,500 for air pollutionThe Packaging Corporation of America’s Wallula paper mill has been fined $28,500 by the Washington Department of Ecology for air pollution released from the facility’s wastewater treatment plant.The Wallula mill is required to reduce emissions from its wastewater treatment plant to comply with...
As the Covid-19 pandemic passes the one-year mark, it is natural to look for light at the end of the tunnel. That could be premature if the data we see on our screens is to be believed. But not all the news is bad.
British historian Thomas Macaulay famously said, “The best government is one that desires to make the people happy and knows how to make them happy.”That standard is clearly not what people are experiencing in Washington state.For years, leaders in state government have been increasing the tax burden and imposing ever-tighter...
Washington state is facing a precarious fiscal future.The Columbia Basin Badger Club will discuss a carbon tax plan that is working its way through the 2021 Legislature at its monthly gathering, which will be held Feb. 18 via Zoom.The challenge: Unemployment remains high and the latest revenue forecast projects a...
