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Mud, games, obstacle courses, water-play and more will be at the Reach center’s Mud Cub event in Richland.Click to Continue »

Basin Disposal, Inc. to alter Monday garbage and recycling pick-up in recognition of holiday…Click to Continue »

People can get information on various transportation plans from 5-6:30 p.m. Sept. 1.Click to Continue »

Negotiation teams for the Pasco School District and its teachers union continued to meet Monday as both sides sought to avoid a strike and delay to the school year starting…Click to Continue »

A process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is being used to efficiently create car parts that are strong but lightweight to make vehicles more fuel efficient.Click to Continue »

The region has 1,700 more people working in nonfarm jobs at this time than it did a year ago. The unemployment rate also is still at the second-lowest level the…Click to Continue »

Edwardo F. Flores Rosales of Kennewick, who forced a young teen girl to go with him to Mexico in 2013, now is accused of raping her after being ordered to…Click to Continue »

While new sales tax revenue provides the means to hire new officers, the Kennewick Police Department is finding it difficult to fill its new positions with top recruits while also…Click to Continue »

Several thousand people gathered Sunday to honor three U.S. Forest Service firefighters killed battling wildfires in Washington state.Click to Continue »

Two men from Sunnyside and Grandview were arrested and are being held at the Franklin County jail, said Pasco police.Click to Continue »