PROSSER, Wash. — If you are a Benton PUD customer in the Prosser region, you may be impacted by a seven-hour planned power outage scheduled for Saturday, April 17 into Sunday, April 18. This planned maintenance period was rescheduled from…
RICHLAND, Wash. - On Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL, did some heavy lifting, all for the sake of research. In order to understand…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Boeing will spend millions of dollars and decades cleaning up pollutants that have seeped into the soil and groundwater beneath one of their plants in Washington state, a state-mandated draft proposal said. TCE, or Trichloroethylene, is…
PROSSER, Wash. — Officials from the Benton PUD (Public Utility District) announced that customers in Prosser will experience a seven-hour planned power outage on Saturday night. From Saturday, April 10 at 11:00 p.m. to Sunday, April 11 at 6:00 a.m.,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has found that two outspoken Amazon workers were illegally fired last year. Both employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, worked at Amazon offices in Seattle and publicly criticized the company, pushing…
Uber has been ordered to pay $1.1 million after an arbitrator ruled that the rideshare company's drivers discriminated against a blind woman and her guide dog on more than a dozen separate occasions. Lisa Irving, a California resident, said she…
GRANT COUNTY, Wash. — Residents of the Pacific Northwest were shocked last week as a streak of bright orange lights illuminated the sky on Thursday, March 25. Since then, it's been confirmed that this occurrence was the result of a…
RICHLAND, Wash. - A new partnership was formed today to pave a historic path for nuclear, carbon-free energy in Washington. Energy Northwest,…
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm that hopes to send its first customers to space next year, unveiled a new spacecraft design on Tuesday. The sleek new space plane has a reflective coating that the company calls "mirror-like," and says…
BENTON COUNTY, Wash. — Community members and local experts gathered to discuss their concerns about the Horse Heaven Wind Farm planned in Benton County. During the Horse Heaven…
Donald Trump is back online. The former president and first lady, Melania Trump, have launched a website to serve their personal offices. The website, 45office.com, comes after Trump's ban from social media sites in the aftermath of the January Capitol…
YACOLT, Wash. (AP) — A U.S. Navy helicopter crew late Monday night rescued the pilot and the passenger of a small plane that went down in forestland near Yacolt, Washington, according to the Washington Department of Transportation. Authorities began searching…
NEW YORK (AP) — The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon warehouse where she works, the clock starts ticking. She has precisely 30 minutes to get to the cafeteria and back for her lunch break.…
Those afraid of heights have a new excuse to steer clear of amusement park rides. This week, two Florida teens were suspended for a few hours on a slingshot ride around three stories high after a cable snapped, rescue officials…
The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced withering criticism from members of Congress on Thursday about their handling of misinformation and online extremism during their first appearance before lawmakers since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the rollout…
KENNEWICK, Wash. — For the third year in the row, the Benton PUD has received a Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) ® Diamond designation from the American Public Power Association. This is the highest honor awarded for similar services and exemplifies…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials continue to refuse to publicly disclose how much money the state has lost to unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic, despite the fact that neighboring states Washington and California have reported huge sums of…
The Justice Department has charged a Swiss hacker with computer intrusion and identity theft, just over a week after the hacker took credit for helping to break into the online systems of a U.S. security-camera startup. An indictment against 21-year-old…
After serving as a home away from home for astronauts over the last 20 years, the International Space Station has become the host for unique bacterial inhabitants. And these microbes could prove useful. Four strains of bacteria, three of which…
Google and Microsoft openly sparred on Friday as the latter prepared to testify at a Congressional hearing focusing on Big Tech's impact on local news. Microsoft targeted Google's dominance in advertising as it described in congressional testimony how the tech…
NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language. The Perseverance rover's team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, has been naming features of scientific interest with words in the language, according to NASA. And it…
RICHLAND, Wash — A group of researchers gathered early Thursday morning at the REACH Museum to launch a project they've been working on for months — a seven-foot…
DOE has provided approvals for the Grid Storage Launchpad, which allow PNNL to move to the design and construction phase of the project. This is a conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad energy-storage facility…
