For many, the thought of starting a garden is rather daunting, for those who think this but want to start one this year, here are ten easy tips for the novice gardener. 1. Location of the garden ne...

The Hospice at the Chaplaincy will be hosting the Hospice Foundation of America's 17th annual Living with Grief Teleconference on March 24. The teleconference will be held at the Tri Cities C...

The Tri Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau will be hosting an educational seminar called "Winning the Battle in the Internet War" at the Holiday Inn Express in Pasco on April 21. Thi...

Washington State University Tri Cities will be holding Cougar Saturday on April 17 at the Richland campus. Cougar Saturday will be held in the Consolidated Information Center from 9:00 am until 1:0...

International representatives from the Washington State Departments of Agriculture and Commerce will be here in the state to meet with companies and talk about opportunities for new and expanded ...

Henry's Restaurant in West Richland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day on March 17 with a special for the day. This St. Patrick's Day special will be a main course of Corned Be...

Apollo Incorporated in Kennewick was recently announced as one of the top five safest companies in Washington State out of nearly 30,000 companies by the Washington Department of Labor and Indust...

This morning at the Applebees in Richland the 6th grade class at Liberty Christian School spent a few hours serving people breakfast to earn money for their trip to Camp Ghormley. The 6th graders...

My family and I were at Round Table Pizza in Richland last night talking to a friend, Keith McNeely and the topic of this blog came up. As we were talking to Keith, he mentioned that he really enjo...

Gesa Credit Union in Kennewick will be having a St. Patrick's Day celebration and Ribbon Cutting for on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Come and join Gesa Credit Union for ...

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day The Gathering Place Bistro in West Richland will be serving traditional Irish dinners March 16, 2010 to March 20, 2010. The Gathering will be serving your...

Housing Market Doing Well in Kennewick Washington CNNMoney.com recently published a report about the top housing markets where recovery has been the best. One of those markets is Kennewick, Washingt...

Jesus Escamilla will be opening up his third New York Richie's Restaurant this Friday in Kennewick. The restaurant will be decorated with a big city theme and an Italian flair and, of course...

Nationally, housing prices are not doing well, data from the National Association of Realtors stated that existing homes sales fell 7.2% in January. However the Tri Cities are still doing well, a r...

At 12:01 am on Tuesday morning 2,544 tickets were put up for sale on the Hanford website for those interested in getting seats for the Hanford tours. Within 13 hours all of these seats were purchas...

The Tri City Regional Chamber of Commerce will be having their fifth annual dinner and awards program on March 24. The program will begin at 5:30 at the Three Rivers Convention Center. An instruc...

Columbia Basin College's main entrance off of Argent finally has a name. The entrance has been named Saraceno Way after Bill Saraceno who has played a large role in capital projects around th...

The Port of Pasco has planned a hearing for March 11 at 1:15 pm at the port's Administration Building in Pasco. The hearing will be held to discuss a proposal to change port commissionerR...

Friends of Badger worked hard this weekend to begin work on a new trail on Badger Mountain. Saturday and Sunday a combined total of nearly 130 people showed up to help work on the new trail, which ...

For the month of March, you can visit the Pepsi Refresh Web Site and vote for White Bluffs to receive funding for their Children's Summer Program. The grant categories are: health, arts & ...

Richland is looking to get suggestions from residents about what to do with the John Dam Plaza and how to improve/renovate it. The meeting to get these suggestions is set for Monday, March 8 at 6:...

On March 20, Project Linus will be having a Make-A-Blanket day at the Kennewick branch of the Mid-Columbia Library. Those attending will be able to help tie fleece blankets, knitting and crochetin...

The CBC music department has four musical concertserformances scheduled in March; they will all begin at 7:30 pm and are free. The first event is a Wind Ensemble concert featuring the Columbia B...

The Grocery Outlet will be having their ribbon cutting on Friday, March 19. The official ribbon cutting ceremony will be at 11:30 am and will be officiated by the Kennewick mayor and Chamber of Comm...

On Tuesday March 9, John Buchanan will be giving a free lecture titled, "The Geology of Mars and the Scablands." The lecture will begin at 7:00 pm in the Benton PUD auditorium. John Buc...

Those interested in attending Washington State University Tri Cities are invited to come to the campus with their parents for an in-depth tour on Tuesday March 9 beginning at 11:00 am. The Discov...

Beginning March 15, White Pass Ski resort will begin to sell their discounted season passes for the 2010-2011 ski season. Passes for adults (ages 13+) will go on sale for $379 regularly $529, stude...

Grace Clinic in Kennewick, a Christian-based clinic, is planning to add staff and increase their hours over the next year. For the last four years Dr. Jeanne Berretta has been volunteering her servi...

On March 11 at the Tri City Americans hockey game against the Seattle Thinderbirds, a silent auction will be held to raise money for a World Harvest Missions orphanage in Haiti. There is also going...

Garner Economics, a consulting firm based in Atlanta, recently published a report that shows between the months of January and June of 2009 that the Tri Cities was one of nine metro areas showing...

TRIDEC will be having there 46th annual meeting on March 31, 2010. The meeting will take place at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco, it will begin at 11:30 am going until 1:00 pm. Carl Adrian, president...

Bridging Partnerships Small Business Symposium is the Tri-Cities premier small business event. It will begins on April 28th and goes until the 29th at the TRAC in Pasco. Attendees will learn about ...

On Thursday February 25, Wayne Martin was awarded the 2010 Community Stewardship Award at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Martin began his work at the lab with only a bachelor's degree...

Beginning March 1, a new fee structure for solid waste disposal will go into effect in Richland; but with it comes an increase in curbside services. Richland will provide organic yard waste pickup...

Beginning this Monday night, March 1 until April 5, the Kennewick School District will be offering free love & logic parenting classes. The classes will be at Vista Elementary School from 6:00...

Tourism is on the rise in the Tri Cities, according to the Tri Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau, last year there was a 4 percent increase in the number of hotel rooms rented in the area. The bur...

NIGHTLIFE Don Millard, 5:30 p.m., Emerald of Siam, 1314 Jadwin Ave., Richland. No cover. Kevin Selby Experiment, 6 p.m., Bookwalter Winery, 894 Tulip Lane, Richland. No cover. Moment's Not...

Stephanie Fanning, a student at Columbia Basin College has directed a 60 minute version of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. There will be two showings, one on March 5 at 7:30 pm and the oth...

The Faculty at Columbia Basin College will be having their annual Art Faculty Exhibit beginning March 1. On March 4 there will be an opening reception at the Esvelt Gallery, which is where the exh...

The owners of the Richland franchise restaurant Wingstop will be opening a new one in Pasco on Rd 68. The new Wingstop will be larger than the Wingstop in Richland, the owners are expecting this res...

On Saturday February 27 there will be a Travel Expo put on by Travel Leaders. The Travel Expo will be at the Holiday Inn Express which is by the TRAC in Pasco. The event will begin at 11:00 am and ...

The Rough Stock Rodeo will be at the TRAC in Pasco on March 6. The Rodeo begins at 7:00 pm but the doors open at 6:00 pm. Admission tickets are only available at the Kennewick Ranch & Home, th...

The Richland School Board made a decision on who will be the new superintendent. Tuesday night in a 2 ½ hour closed door meeting the board deliberated over which candidate would replace Jean ...

The IHOPs in the Tri Cities will be giving away free pancakes today until 10:00 pm. National Pancake Day is being celebrated by IHOP for the fifth year, in over 1,400 restaurants. The Pasco IHOP an...

The Lower Columbia Basin Audubon Society will have a public meeting tonight at First Lutheran Church in Kennewick. Dennis Dauble, a fisheries biologist, will be speaking at the meeting about the ec...

The Richland Parks and Recreation Department is currently working on building a water spray area at the Badger Mountain Community Park on Keene Rd in Richland. The water park would be the first in...

The American Cancer Society is looking for team captains or members who would like to participate in the Columbia River Relay for Life. Those interested are asked to attend a rally on February 23 a...

This Wednesday at Columbia Basin College there will be an eating disorder awareness event from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. The event will be held in room TD 435. There will be a showing of America the Beautif...

The Pasco Planning Commission has delayed the discussion about a new elementary school until March 18. The chairman of the commission Todd Samuel says the meeting will be held to discuss how the c...

Richland City Council Looking to Fill Planning Commission Positions The Richland City Council are looking for, and accepting applications for two positions to be filled on the planning commission....

The West Richland Golf Course in the Tri Cities will be having a ground breaking ceremony on Thursday, February 25. The first clubhouse was destroyed in 2008 by a fire. The groundbreaking will be...

The ARC of the Tri Cities will be holding their second annual Blazing the Trails Charity Event on Saturday, March 20. The event will be held at Musser's Private Airport Hanger in Pasco. The ev...

The Tri City Regional Chamber of Commerce will be celebrating the opening of Charter College this afternoon with a ribbon cutting. The ribbon cutting will take place at Charter College which is lo...

Washington State University in both Pullman and the Tri Cities have received nearly $1.1 million by the Department of Energy. The Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory on the Tri Cities...

The Tri City Regional Chamber of Commerce is having their annual dinner on Wednesday, March 14. The evening will begin at 5:30 with a social hour, the dinner will begin at 6:30. The agenda for the ...

There is talk that the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center could be located near the west end of a redeveloped Columbia Park. They would like to add recreational features like an indoor carousel or a ...

On February 23 the Ice Harbor Brewery, in Kennewick, will be hosting a Wine and Dine dinner featuring Anelare Winery. Beginning at 7:30 there will be a presentation by a representative from the win...

The Richland School District has been interviewing candidates for the soon to be open superintendant position. Last week the school board interviewed several candidates and they have narrowed down ...

On March 9 internet registration will begin for those interested in tours at Hanford. The Department of Energy has planned 60 tours for this year of the nuclear reservation between April 13 and Se...

On Thursday there will be a wine seminar at Washington State University Tri-Cities about learning to detect defects in wines. The seminar will be led by Thomas Henick-Kling, director of WSU'...

This Saturday February 20, the annual regional science bowl, sponsored by the Department of Energy and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will be held in Richland. About three dozen teams of ...

Several years ago churches in the Tri Cities area joined together to put on an event called ShareFest. The event brings area churches together to hold food and blood drives, do service projects, an...

West Richland residents will be voting for the second time on an EMS tax that would fund ambulance transport services. Currently Benton Fire District 4 does run any ambulances, when they respond to...

For the past 14 years Junior Achievement in the Tri Cities has been putting on a Bowling Classic Fundraiser. There will also be an online auction on March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6. For the bowling cl...

The Washington Policy Center has recently hired a new full-time director at the new Eastern Washington office. The new director Chris Cargill will be focusing on outreach to citizens, media, and com...

According to the Washington Center for Real Estate Research at Washington State University, in the fourth quarter of last year, 2009, home sale shot up 21.3 percent. When compared to the fourth qua...

The Tri City Economy continues to do well despite the nationwide down economy. Last year there were 3,400 more non-farm jobs than there were in 2008. Some credit the success of the Tri Cities to th...

The Richland School District has recently decided to buy 15 acres of land south of Mountain View Estates on Belmont Boulevard in West Richland. The purchase was approved by the school board earlier...

The Tri Cities have used to be highly dependent on the Hanford economy, but according to a study by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory less that 8% of local jobs in the area were with Hanford pr...

Did you know that there are currently two bills being proposed in Olympia, Washington that, if passed, could allow the local real estate excise tax of .25% to be used by the local government? House ...

Around the Tri Cities school maintenance and operations levies are passing at the polls. These levies help pay for extracurricular activities such as sports, art, music, along with other day-toR...

This month the Franklin County Historical Museum will be holding a presentation in honor of Black History Month by Katie Barton. The presentation will be on February 20 beginning at 10:00 am at the...

As part of the Washington State Main Street program, the Historic Downtown Kennewick Partnership is joining with various communities statewide to help save the program. As a result of budget cuts ...

Washington State Tri Cities will be opening the Chancellor's Art Exhibit on Wednesday at 5:00pm. The exhibit will showcase several artists from in and around the Columbia Valley. Fourty-four ...

The second annual Cavalcade of Authors will be happening this Friday, February 10, at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco. The authors that will be attending are: Buckingham, Dia Calhoun, Patrick Carman, B...

The Leadership Tri Cities Class XV are looking for an artist to paint a mural at the YMCA's Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Pasco. The chosen artist will work with a group of students and me...

The Washington Parks and Recreation Commission are going to be discussing possible ideas for Sacajawea State Park.  The meeting will take place at the Sacajawea Interpretive Center in the par...

AARP will be putting on several driving classes this month for senior citizens at various places in the community. The purpose of these classes is to refresh seniors on driving knowledge and to al...

Habitat for Humanity in the Tri Cities, Washington area has always had plenty of people applying for a house but this year they are running low on applicants. Theresa Richardson, executive director...

The American Red Cross will be putting on a Real Heroes Breakfast in honor of heroes in the community. The breakfast will take place on March 4, 2010 at the TRAC in Pasco. Reservations need to be mad...

Thursday night several people attended the consultant's report at the Clover Island Inn in Kennewick. The meeting was about the revitalization strategies for Columbia Drive's riverfront real esta...

On February 19, 2010 there will be a Regional Home and Garden Show at the TRAC in Pasco, Washington. The garden show will begin on the 19th at 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, and then on the 20th the show will o...

Today at 4:00 pm there will be a grand opening at a new restaurant in Kennewick called Six Degrees. Six Degrees is a restaurant and bar with a combination of comfort gourmet food and a rock and roll ...

Scott McMillin, an artist from Kennewick Washington, will be opening up an art gallery in downtown Kennewick called Splash. After graduationg high school, McMillin moved to Seattle and became a model...

Last month the National Park Service hosted two public comment sessions to gain public feedback about the decision to potentially make the Hanford site one of three Manhattan Sites to be made a part ...

EnergySolutions Foundation is accepting application for their tenth grade scholarship. The deadline for the scholarship is Wednesday. In order to be elligible for the scholarship a completed applicati...

A man in Florida a few years back, stopped making payments on his home and was foreclosed on. When John King stopped making payments he assumed that was the end of that, but recently he now has colle...

This Tuesday, February 2, 2010, the Tri Tech Skills Center will be opening the registration for the 2010-2011 preschool program. Children between the ages of three and five are elligible to be registe...

Tonight at Columbia Basin College there will be a showing of the film The Price of Pleasure. The film is a mature documentary about the pornography industry and the effect it is having on the American...

Apple is at it again with a new gadget that is soon to be a hit when it reaches the stores. The all newiPad is similar to the iPhone, it has many of the same features as the iPhone such as, emailing, ...

Some people are very pleased with Presidents Obama's State of the Union address while others are upset by his informal tone, and still some are not pleased with the way he bashed the previous a...

The Richland School District is in the process of hiring a new superintendent due to the fact that the current superintendent Jean Lane is retiring this summer. There are four candidates being conside...

CREHST Museum in Richland will be welcoming Melvin the Elk to one of their galleries this afternoon. Melvin the Elk lived on the Fitzner/Eberhart Arid Lands Ecology Reserve along the face of the Ratt...

According to the Benton County crime statistics, the amount of crimes in 2009 are very close to the number of crimes reported in 2008; these are the part 1 crimes. The Part 1 crimes are homicide, rap...

Washington state is the second largest wine producing state in the United States, second only to California. Washington's grape production did well last year and is predicted to do just as well...

The 2010 Regional Economic Outlook Forum met yesterday at the TRAC in Pasco to discuss the future of the Tri Cities in terms of its economic outlook. The keynote speaker, Brian Wesbury is very optim...

There is a proposal being considered by the Port of Pasco to adjust the port commission district boundaries. The reason for the change would be to distribute the population amoung the three districts ...

The Kennewick School District has organized a community bus tour for Thursday, February 4. As part of the tour those in attendance will be able to visit Tri-Tech Skills Center and Vista Elementary. T...

The Chiawana High School boys Basketball game was quite the experience for those in attendance. A Chiawana senior was "blown away by how big the crowd was." Tuesday night the Chiawana River...

The Bonneville Power Administration is looking to build a new transmission line, the Central Ferry-Lower Monumental transmission line, between two eastern Washington substations. This transmission lin...