Doc Hastings News Archives

Though Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry is fighting deportation from the United States he still flies an American flag at his west Yakima home.

Harold Copeland took an engineering job at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1947, swayed by a recruiter's pitch that he would be paid a good wage and could live in a house with his wife in the government-owned town of Richland.

The President visited DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy center, billed as the largest solar photovoltaic center in the country.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that could wind up forcing the National Park Service to move a wilderness boundary line to rebuild a flood-prone road.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to move and restore the washed-out Stehekin River Road, the only road access out of Lake Chelan into the North Cascades National Park.

Dozens of U.S. representatives sent a letter to the head of the President's Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force raising concerns it would try to block offshore energy development and cost Americans jobs.

Doc Hastings has sent a timely and important question to President Obama: What about Yucca Mountain? Rep.

WASHINGTON a ' Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday said he is seeking an investigation of a Bush-era decision to give low royalty rates and favorable terms to energy companies that commercially developed oil shale on public lands in Utah and Colorado.

Reporting from Washington - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asked the Interior Department's inspector general Tuesday to investigate a controversial, last-minute move by the Bush administration to lock in favorable royalty rates and lenient environmental regulations for a series of oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado and Utah.

About $2 million in federal and state emergency funds are flowing into the Nile Valley for new road construction and flood control.

Soldiers from the Pasco-based Delta Co. who deployed to Iraq last year were welcomed home Saturday in a ceremony attended by dignitaries, fellow veterans and family members.

A $224 million construction project at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland is poised to receive the final $12 million toward its total price tag after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Homeland Security funding bill Thursday.

It was the kind of legislation that rarely generates much debate in Congress: a bill to expand a local water recycling program.

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: First Vote of the Week... Tuesday 6:30 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... Friday p.m. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009 On Monday, the House will not be in session.

Reporting from Washington - The federal government's top ocean scientists are urging the Interior Department to drastically reduce plans to open the coast to offshore oil and gas drilling, citing threats to marine life and potentially devastating effects of oil spills in Arctic waters.

The 2010 elections are still more than a year away, but an alphabet soup of national unions, interest groups and political committees have already taken aim at U.S. Rep.

Senate clears agriculture bill: Dairy farmers suffering from low milk prices would benefit from $350 million in emergency funding as the Senate cleared a $121 billion agriculture- spending bill for Obama's signature.

A new Senate bill putting limits on carbon dioxide emissions will raise the cost of electricity, but national regulation is needed and could make New Jersey more competitive, the head of the state's largest utility said Wednesday.