After years of operating cannabis businesses and training retail workers across the country, two industry veterans are planning a new dispensary in west Pasco.

Fire and water are the two elements that Greg McLain sought to build a business around when he left Montana in 1987. Almost 40 years later, he has established a longstanding business around these two opposing elements: Fire & Water.

Two years later, A Bit of Happiness Farm has grown to include a full farmyard cast of ducks, geese, goats, sheep, horses, donkeys, pigs, a highland steer named Kevin, rabbits, chickens, quail, alpacas, Dolly the Great Pyrenees dog, a turkey, cows, guinea pigs and Humphrey the Bactrian camel.

Amber Puzey is the first to tell you her shop, A Lettered Home, is not merely a bookstore – it’s a love letter to the city of West Richland, written with her own hand.

It’s been a story of setbacks and survival for two women trying to launch their business, but with luck and a lot of resilience, they’ve opened a shop in West Richland. 

In just a few years, a local engineering firm has seen a burst of growth, and it’s not slowing down anytime soon.

Five years ago, longtime plastics salesman René Collin was approached to start a business making high-density polyethylene pipes. Today, the concept is more than just a pipe dream: Texas-based Century Pipe LLC’s first manufacturing facility has opened its doors near Burbank.

From the Marines to financial services to the dentist's chair, this dentist said every chapter of his career prepared him for what he now considers his calling – the work he's been doing at his own Pasco practice.

The company behind the signs for the new Pasco Aquatic Center, Benton County Fairgrounds’ recently revamped grandstands and the Columbia Valley Center for Recovery has new owners with a bold new vision.

At this downtown Kennewick shop, new inventory arrives daily, the phone rings often, a rescue dog pines for pets, and owner Dan Sanders can usually tell you whether he has the card, comic, figure or game someone is hunting for, even if it is buried in the store’s crowded maze of shelves, boxes and back room inventory.