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 ...
Trump cancels hundreds of WA refugee flights. How this nonprofit plans to respond
Ken Primus, director of World Relief Tri-Cities, stands in the organization’s Richland offices. It’s Southeast Washington’s ...
Tri-City Herald death notices Jan. 25, 2025
Hankins, 93, of Richland, died Jan. 20 in Richland. She was born in Colby, Kan., and lived in Richland for 70 years. She was a retired former Washington state legislator. Einan’s at Sunset, Richland, ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Olympian19d
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 ...
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 ...
Tri-City Herald3d
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 with an independent streak, died Monday. She was 93. The Richland ...
The Spokesman-Review5d
WA state law doesn’t allow jails to help ICE. Tri-Cities leader wants to call the bluff
Delvin pointed to programs like the Tri-Cities Metro Drug Task Force which ... are the biggest costs for local governments in Washington state. In Franklin County the sheriff oversees day to ...