Richland News

Pet Over Population Prevention will hold a microchip clinic from 1-4 p.m. April 27 at 524B Warehouse St. in Richland.

Local Pastors, from left, Wes Lindseth of Life Church 7, Jon Brandstetter of Columbia FourSquare Church, Steve Watson of The Bridge Church and Dan Keller of Island View Worship Center, pose for a photo at The Bridge Church in Richland.

Thien V. Le was cited for speeding in the 9:10 a.m. incident on Highway 240 at Aaron Drive, according to the Washington State Patrol.

The two men weren't necessarily best friends, but they went from hanging out every once in a while to "more and more," often at the Richland skate park, said the witnesses, friends of Young and Hunt.

See a video at tricityherald.com. A Richland mountaineering guide who takes climbers up Mount Everest wasn’t hurt in this morning’s deadly avalanche on the peak.

An imaging technique used in medicine could help detect hidden nuclear material, according to the results of a computer simulation reported this week in the Journal of Applied Physics 1 .

Theater students from Richland and Hanford high schools took home several honors and scholarships at the recent Washington State Thespian Festival.

Seventeen small Tri-City businesses are in the running for the 2014 Mid-Columbia Small Business of the Year awards.

Katie Ziegler has been named 2013 Dispatcher of the Year for Southeast Communications, a division of Benton County Emergency Management.

A Richland firefighter sprays smoldering areas Tuesday on the back porch of a house in Pasco.

John C.I. Young was not aware that Joshua H. Hunt had a gun with him while the three were smoking marijuana as they sat in the desert early July 4, John Crowley told jurors.

Prosecutors will be able to use at a trial the test results of blood taken from a driver after she was involved in a fatal crash last June.

Rebar and concrete walls are installed last fall at the top of the High-Level Waste Facility at the Hanford vitrification plant.

A program about "Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss" is planned from 10:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 22 at The Chaplaincy's Spaulding Park facility, 1480 Fowler St., Richland.

A fire Tuesday morning damaged a house at 115 N. Seventh Ave. in Pasco. One person was home at the time but the person was not hurt.

There were four identity thefts were reported on Monday alone, police said. Three of the complaints were from people who discovered someone else had filed using their social security number and claiming fake returns.

Rebar and concrete walls are installed last fall at the top of the High-Level Waste Facility at the Hanford vitrification plant.

RICHLAND, Wash. - Think of the pressure change you feel when an elevator zips you up multiple floors in a tall building.

A 66 year old Richland man is arrested Sunday by Franklin County sheriff's deputies for allegedly robbing the Sandoval's market in Basin City.

In August voters in Benton County will consider Proposition 14-5 and whether to increase the local sales tax rate by 0.3% raising approximately $9 million per year for public safety spending.