Long-serving Tri-Cities ‘old-style Republican’ lawmaker with an independent streak dies
Shirley Hankins, who represented the Tri-Cities in the Washington state Legislature for 24 years as a moderate Republican ...
WA state law doesn’t allow jails to help ICE. Tri-Cities leader wants to call the bluff
Delvin has suggested that while the state’s Keep Washington Working law, passed in 2019, prohibited the jail from sending a ...
Tri-Cities nonprofit considers suing WA state over Inslee decision on huge wind farm
Tri-Cities CARES, a group opposed to the Horse ... who live within six miles of a wind farm across the rest of Washington state, according to the group. Its property appraisal experts testified ...
Tri-Cities area schools ask voters for $10M for teachers, sports and school safety
Rural Tri-Cities area School Districts are asking voters to pass nearly $9.8 million in taxes funding basic education, ...
Whooping cough outbreak infects wrestlers and others at Tri-Cities area school
Because newborns do not have a fully developed immune system, people spending time around them including parents, siblings, ...
Getting There: New highway segment planned between Tri-Cities and Walla Walla
A new four-lane divided highway is expected to make travel between the Tri-Cities and Walla Walla safer and faster. Walla ...
2nd bill filed to limit WA governor’s authority to approve locally opposed wind farms
In addition to Dye’s bill, Sen. Matt Boehnke, R-Kennewick, has filed Senate Bill 5015 to limit the governor’s authority by ...
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WSU cuts ties to Tri-Cities Master Gardener nonprofit over ‘disputes’ and ‘rivalries’
More than 100 volunteers serve in the Tri-Cities. Washington is also birthplace to the national Extension Master Gardener program. WSU Master Gardener program intern Diana Shankle helps set up the ...
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WSU Tri-Cities receives solar panel grant to help with apple production
Tri-Cities Institute plans to use a $2.4 million grant on a program implementing solar panels in apple production.