A solar installation company that started in Pasco and was once on Inc. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America appears to be closing down.

Framatome has taken another step to solidify its future as a fuel producer for the next generation of nuclear reactors.

For the first time in more than four years, the Tri-Cities Airport saw year-over-year decline in passengers leaving its gates in September, a potential side effect of the year’s economic instability and turmoil in the federal government.

Sales from licensed cannabis producers, processors and retailers have dropped every year since 2021, with those in industry saying a variety of pressures threaten the future of the industry.

The developer of a large wind and solar farm energy project between Benton City and Prosser will not be able to build the facility to the capacity initially planned after state officials determined construction needed to be set back from some nesting sites of endangered hawks.

The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history continues to roil the nation but work at the Hanford site is continuing for now.

The Academy of Children’s Theatre hopes word of the revamped theater and seating, with improved sight lines and more accessibility for theater goers with limited mobility, will lead people who’ve never seen an ACT production to check out a show.

A now-closed Richland floral shop that was a flashpoint in a discrimination lawsuit for a previous owner’s refusal to provide flowers to a gay couple recently declared bankruptcy and counts its former owner among its creditors.

With many retiring from the nuclear industry, preparing the industry’s next generation, especially with small modular reactors, or SMRs, on the horizon, is crucial. 

A Seattle-based health care provider has bought a new and unused in-patient mental health clinic and is planning to use it for its own in-patient services beginning in spring 2026.