UPDATE (10:30 p.m. Sunday) — A new estimate from MSA puts the contained fire at 9,000 acres. _______ UPDATE (8:15 p.m. Sunday) — The vegetation fire at the Hanford Site has been contained, according to Patrick Conrad with Mission Support Alliance.…
SPOKANE, Wash.– Testing supplies may be running out across Washington. A situation report released on April 1 from the State Emergency Operations Center shows there are less than 10 days of testing supplies available in Washington. “With current supplies we…
HANFORD, Wash. -- The Department of Energy is telling all non-essential employees at Hanford to stay home. According to a press release from the DOE, only essential personnel should be going to work. Hanford is moving to a temporary planning…
HANFORD, Wash. — The Department of Energy has stated that a Hanford employee is being tested for COVID-19. The employee had access to the office building located at 3170 George Washington Way. It’s been restricted as a precaution until it’s…
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Three radioactively contaminated structures are at high risk of collapsing on a former nuclear weapons production site, but could be stabilized by filling them with a concrete-like grout within the next year, the federal government said.…
RICHLAND, Wash. -- The Hanford Vit Plant is hosting an event for girls interested in engineering fields. On Thursday, Feb. 20, "Introduce a Girl to Engineering" will be held at the Richland Public Library from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.…
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Advocates for cleaning up Hanford, a former nuclear weapons production site, are outraged that the Trump administration is proposing a $700 million budget cut next year. The proposal released Monday by President Donald Trump called for…
RICHLAND, Wash. – The plant that produced two-thirds of the nation’s Cold War-era plutonium no longer exists. After 40 years of operations, and 20 years of cleanout and demolition preparation, crews recently finished demolishing the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s main processing…
HANFORD, Wash. -- Hanford firefighters can now take pride in a brand new, state-of-the-art ladder truck. Representatives from the Hanford Fire Department and Department of Energy held a ceremony on Thursday to give…
Hanford workers have been hard at work treating hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated groundwater. According to a Facebook post, the 200 West Pump and Treat facility set a record by treating over 300 million gallons of contaminated groundwater…
The first team of chemists has arrived at Hanford's Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), better known as the Vit Plant. The chemists will perform the first scientific work taking place inside the plant's Analytical Laboratory to support starting the…
HANFORD, Wash. -- A Hanford worker who died on the job Wednesday has been identified as 49-year-old Teresa Weathers, according to Benton County Coroner Bill Leach.
Officials have identified the man who died in a deadly crash this morning in Hanford.
The Hanford site will be getting a visit from a high-profile politician on Tuesday.
The daughter of a former Hanford worker talked to students at Columbia Basin College about the dangers of radiation exposure. Trisha Pritikin, whose father was an engineer at the Hanford facility, was born and raised in Richland…
Here's a look at a few events happening around our region this weekend.
HANFORD, Wash. - Don't be alarmed if you hear sirens ringing at the Hanford Site Thursday afternoon.
Here's a look at some weekend events happening around our region.
This month culminates a year-long initiative by members of the Tri-Cities community to commemorate a key period in local and international history - the 75th anniversary of the Hanford site. On September 26, 1944, the B Reactor…
A major tool for spearheading nuclear waste cleanup at the Hanford site is now complete, close to two decades in the making.U.S. Representatives Dan Newhouse and Kim Schrier, along with representatives from Bechtel National and the Department of Energy held…
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to extend two major environmental cleanup contracts at a contaminated nuclear site in Handford.
Benton County deputies were on the scene of several crashes involving deer early Thursday morning.At around 4:50 a.m., scanner dispatchers indicated three vehicles had crashed because of two deers.Those crashes all happened on Route 4 south, in the Hanford area.…
UPDATE (8:15 a.m.): The Washington State Department of Natural Resources says the Cold Creek Fire has burned about 15,000 acres near Hanford. The fire is estimated to be 10 percent contained.
