Richland News

The city of Pasco and the Port of Pasco used a similar method — building a process water treatment plant — to attract food processors to the Pasco Processing Center.

It also will include a clause requiring him not only to do his job legally and ethically, but also morally.

Tanner Meier, right, of Kennewick kicks a hacky sack around with his friend John Wilson, center and Chad Turner, both of Richland, as they wait from some other friends to play Frisbee golf at Columbia Park in Kennewick.

When organizers put on their annual Cool Desert Nights car show and parade in Richland, Washington they need a permit.

Kidz Dig Rigz event is 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 18 near the Playground of Dreams at Columbia Park in Kennewick.

About a third of the way up the 105-foot ladder leaned against the roof of a six-story tower, my legs begin to burn.

The owner of Arlene's Flower Shop in Richland,WA Baronelle Stutzman, has just filed a counter-suit after State AG, Bob Ferguson, filed a discrimination case against her when she told a customer she wouldn't sell him flowers for his same-sex marriage ceremony.

News about Seattle City Hall, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, Seattle and King County government and more The owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland, who refused a longtime customer's request to provide flowers for his same-sex wedding, has launched a counter suit against state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued her ... (more)

Rachelle Lizotte, 17, left, talks with Janice Knight, 16, on Wednesday while Breanna Bagwell, 17, welds during the fifth annual Mentor A Girl in Construction Camp at Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick.

One longtime Richland City Council member won’t keep his seat at the dais no matter the results of this year’s council election.

A Pasco, Wash., baby is being treated to prevent rabies after she was bitten twice by a rabid bat last weekend while on her grandparents' deck.

A framed copy of the Herald’s first extra edition adorns the wall of our boardroom.

Can you say, "Overkill?" In regard to the police response to an attempted bank robbery in Pasco as reported in the May 8 Herald -- really? Dozens of Pasco police officers, an apparently good-sized Benton-Franklin SWAT team, two armored vehicles, at least one police sniper on a roof, police dogs, a Richland bomb squad robot to inspect a backpack, ... (more)

RICHLAND, Wash. The U.S. Department of Energy and contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company workers exceed the DOE's annual goal of removing 500 pounds of hexavalent chromium from groundwater near the Columbia River at the Hanford Site in southeast Washington state.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday that workers have exceeded DOE's annual goal of removing 500 pounds of hexavalent chromium from groundwater before the end of the fiscal year.

Vic Olsen of MetalFab Inc. in West Richland welds sections of steel beams Monday for a new building on the corner of Columbia Center Boulevard and Colorado Street in Kennewick.

UPDATE: PROSSER, Wash. - The Benton County Coroner says preliminary autopsy results show the missing man from Grandview drowned in the Yakima River.

"When I was in elementary school and they were telling us about global warming, I started to think about what I could do about that," said the 15-year-old freshman from Richland High School.

Aldrich, who has been involved in West Richland politics off and on for about 15 years, said in a statement that she plans to emphasize the need to revitalize the city by making it a stopping point for Red Mountain winery visitors and focusing on the Van Giesen Street corridor.

Plans call for an estimated 15,300-square-foot building that would cost about $3 million to build and could go on district property near the intersection of Williams Boulevard and Goethals Drive.