Richland News

The Department of Energy is making changes to improve the safety of how it moves radioactive and hazardous chemical waste on 12 miles of public roadways at Hanford and in north Richland.

Kollektiv is a quartet of Reed College students who spend their spare time cranking out a mix of music that can only be described as improvisational.

The Evan Egerer Band performs March 15 at the Barnard Griffin Wine Bar & Eatery, 878 Tulip Lane, Richland.

A Tri-City student speech and debate club is looking for judges to help at its tournament in Richland this weekend.

Cinda Williams Chima of Ohio, the best-selling author of the Heir Chronicles and Seven Realms series, among other titles, will be at Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. tonight.

Franklin County commissioners extended a moratorium on marijuana-related businesses in unincorporated Franklin County that was set to expire at midnight Tuesday.

The Richland School Board is considering building another elementary school and moving sixth-graders back to the elementary level because of difficulty in finding suitable land to build a middle school.

Ramez S. Farag, 37, was driving north when the Camry crossed the center line and hit the semi, which was carrying two trailers, state patrol said.

Children can learn about solar energy and parents and teachers can learn how to use grocery store materials to teach children about solar energy from 2 to 3 p.m. A community forum on the Fukushima disaster and the alliance’s concerns about Energy Northwest’s nuclear power plant near Richland will be held at 5:30 p.m. The event will end ... (more)

A Hanford watchdog group is criticizing the federal government's plan to take at least two years to pump out a nuclear waste storage tank that is leaking.

Robert L. Ozuna, of Outlook, was arrested around 7:30 a.m. and a loaded .38-caliber revolver was found near him, police said.

Sixteen authors in the young adult genre will join more than 1,000 Mid-Columbia middle and high school students Friday for the Cavalcade of Authors.

Ericka Rice has joined Richland-based TradeWind Services as manager of business development.

Haroon Ullah's heritage is Pakistani, but he proudly calls himself an American -- his family moved to the Tri-Cities when he was 3 years old.

They were married Dec. 28, 1963, in Binghamton, N.Y. They moved to the Mid-Columbia in the fall of 1978 from Puyallup.

Pasco resident John Grubenhoff holds the record for the largest walleye caught in Washington.

Two young tech entrepreneurs in Richland are plugging away on development plans for about 2 acres of city-owned property off George Washington Way near Lee Boulevard, at the gateway to the city's central business district.

The apparent theft of an M-16 rifle and helmet from a West Richland memorial has outraged Mid-Columbia veterans.

A 20-year-old Richland man is accused of groping a woman as she was sleeping after he got into her hotel room.

The Benton-Franklin chapter of the American Red Cross honored several local heroes Thursday -- from a Richland father who defended his daughter against an attacker, to a longtime Red Cross volunteer who hails from Benton City.