Richland News

The Department of Energy and its regulators have issued a decision adopting a final cleanup plan for the Hanford 300 Area just north of Richland, the first of six final plans that will cover 220 square miles along the Columbia River.

Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken will come to the Port Townsend Library, 1220 Lawrence St., for a celebration of poetry this Thursday.

Recently there has been a circulation of fraudulent emails suggesting the City of Richland is requesting nominations/selections for an award called the 2013 Best of Richland.

James Leroy Davis III was tired of running from authorities and called police around 5 p.m. Monday to turn himself in, said Richland police Capt.

Areva's efforts to minimize environmental impacts at its Richland plant earned it the 2013 Environmental Management System Award from the Eastern Washington Chapter of the Academy of Certified Hazardous Material Managers.

Tri-City Americans players were at local Fred Meyers locations today ringing bells to raise money for the Salavtion Army.

A group of friends play a game of ice hockey Monday near Bateman Island in Richland.

Tommy Mayhew, 13, will perform at 6:30 p.m. at the Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate Drive.

Professional trumpet player Ingrid Jensen ponders her reply while answering questions from students in the freshmen concert band Monday at Hanford High School in Richland.

Tricia Legard and Daniel Sorensen, both of Richland, were married Oct. 26 at the Yachats Inn in Yachats, Ore.

Mary Gettis, leader of Martha's Cupboard at Central United Protestant Church, is surrounded by a group of church volunteers that helps provide things that food stamps don't cover to community members in need.

For the past 12 years, Gene Wagner's decisions have helped steer the Port of Kennewick's economic development efforts.

But it's one that is fraught with uncertainty, from security to mites, mildew and the threat of federal raids.

A regional group will look at ways to breach the causeway to Bateman Island to improve salmon habitat with the help of a state grant program.

The Richland Fire Department is excited about the new station planned for the southwest part of the city, and will enjoy using the facility, said Fire Chief Grant Baynes.

Members of law enforcement from all the agencies around the Tri-Cities helped 28 underprivileged kids shop for presents on Saturday, Dec. 7, at Wal-Mart in Kennewick.

It would be reasonable to ask why it is worth your time to read a 500-page book about a man probably as well known today as when he died at age 101 in 2005.

Forecasters are calling for temperatures of 11 degrees, with a below-zero wind chill, when Bill and Carole Allenbaugh’s sixth annual breakfast to help the Tri-Cities Food Bank will start on time Saturday morning.

Emily Dusek, 7, looks out the window of a 1950s-era passenger car on Thursday as she joined her grandparents Rockey and Twila Stoddard, all of Kennewick, on the BNSF Holiday Express.

Angela Mohondro, director of Allied Health, holds onto her hard hat Thursday while leading a tour of the new Kadlec Healthplex facility at 1260 Lee Boulevard in Richland.