SEATTLE -- Starting Thursday, Seattle-based tech company Wyze is offering free security cameras for small businesses in Washington state. Businesses with 50 or fewer employees that make less than or equal to $5 million annual revenue can apply to get…
RICHLAND, Wash. -- Washington lawmakers paid a visit to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland where scientists are using their expertise to come up with new ways to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Congressman Dan Newhouse, State Senator Sharon…
RICHLAND, Wash. -- The Pacific Northwest needs more - and varied - electricity sources to maintain reliability and achieve a carbon-free system by 2045, according to a recent Energy Northwest study. The study was prepared by Energy + Environmental Economics…
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse has invited Oregon Governor Kate Brown to visit one of the lower Snake River dams, days after Gov. Brown voiced support for breaching them. Rep. Newhouse (R-WA 4th District) sent a letter to…
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.…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- When historic flooding hit the Walla Walla Valley last week, it was a decades-old Army Corps of Engineers project that helped prevent an even greater disaster. “Everything on project…
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- In today's world, you never know who your child might be communicating with online. Richland Police Crime Prevention Specialist, Cerise Peck, is educating parents on how to become the…
PASCO, Wash. -- Years in the making, the newest Corvette model pulled into Pasco this weekend, delighting car enthusiasts from across the pacific northwest. The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray made a stop at McCurley…
RICHLAND, Wash. -- A new technology developed and licensed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will ensure that radioactive materials don’t get lost or fall into the wrong hands. Radioactive materials can be…
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…
PASCO, Wash. -- For the first time, two Tri-Cities hospitals will be able to bring robotics into spine surgery. LifePoint Health, which now owns Lourdes Medical Center and Trios Hospital, invested several million dollars…
Australian researchers claim they have developed a battery that can keep a smartphone charged for five days or power an electric car for 1,000 kilometers (over 600 miles).If the technology comes to be used widely, it would represent a significant…
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — If the popular ToTok video and voice calling app is a spying tool of the United Arab Emirates, that’s news to its co-creator.
A solar sales and installation company was founded in Pasco and is now building a 23,000 sq. ft., solar powered building to house its national headquarters.
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…
Pasco's one-of-a-kind, STEM-focused high school is now accepting applications for next year.Current eighth grade students living in the Kennewick, Pasco or Richland School Districts are eligible to apply. Prospective students must be ready to enroll in high school algebra or…
UPDATE (9:00 a.m.) - According to Trooper John Bryant, the collisions blocking the eastbound lanes of I-90 near Cle Elum have been cleared.
HANFORD, Wash. -- The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday awarded a cleanup contract worth up to $10 billion over 10 years.
Richland homeowners or business owners with security cameras may be able to help local police solve a crime. The Richland Police Department just launched the Voluntary Camera Partnership. The VCP allows residents and business owners to register…
Richland is ready to cheer on a local baker appearing on national television and now we will get to see the episode sooner than expected.
By 2021, Washington state will have 740,000 new high-skilled and high-paying jobs. For state leaders in education, that means a fair amount of work and strategy to make sure those jobs can be filled by then. Efforts to increase STEM…
Columbia Basin College has received $20,000 in grant funding to help prepare local K-12 educators to teach computer science. The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) provided $10,000 and Battelle, which operates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, provided a matching…
Self-driving cars. Siri.Spam filters.Artificial intelligence touches our lives in multiple ways. Scientists around the world recognize the potential of AI, but they also realize there is still a lot of research and development to be done.A new…
A California health care clinic will close its doors in December after the provider was unable to recover patient records that were encrypted by ransomware this summer.Earlier this year, a Spokane medical group had to pay hackers…
