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…
DALLAS (AP) — UPS has won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will let the company expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers.
Marshalls, one of the nation's leading off-price retailers, unveiled its new, e-commerce website on Tuesday. While the site features categories similar to those found in-store, including ladies, mens and kids apparel and footwear, home accessories and beauty products, it also…
Spokane resident Gabe Burdett thanks the Apple Watch for helping save his dad's life last Sunday.
Walmart said Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes as the number of deaths tied to vaping grows. The decision from America's largest retailer may influence other stores and marks a significant blow to the vaping industry."Given the growing federal, state…
The Army Corps of Engineers begins spring spill at the four lower Snake River dams on Wednesday, hoping a new method will benefit both fish and hydropower. The Corps' Walla Walla District owns and operates the four dams - Ice…
This week, the country stopped to remember the events that took place 18 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. The tragedy sparked an increase in efforts to improve security at airports and venues around the country, and…
The technology industry isn't normally associated with Eastern Washington, but local tech industry movers are hoping to change that.On Thursday, industry leaders and entrepreneurs will gather in Richland on Thursday for the second annual Tri-Cities Tech Summit. The goal of…
A first-of-its-kind electric grid energy storage research facility may be coming to Tri-Cities.After considering its other national laboratories, the Department of Energy recently chose Richland's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as the future site for the new building.The facility will be…
A technology that was created to help salmon successfully travel across dams has recently gone viral across the country, but it has its roots in Tri-Cities. The so-called "salmon cannon" was created by Seattle-based company Whooshh Innovations, but it was…
