Richland’s Ang Dorjee climbed to the top of the world this week — for the 13th time. He led an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest and they reached the top Monday night (our time). Amazing! The Herald has more about the story, and you can read some of the in-progress updates that the [...]

If you’re one of the bazillion people on Facebook, why not make a connection with the City of Richland? There are a couple official “fan pages” for the city: City of Richland http://www.facebook.com/pages/Richland-WA/City-of-Richland-Washington/97157307639 Richland CityView http://www.facebook.com/pages/Richland-WA/Richland-CityView/76690616294 (I don’t know if this is official or not, but the Richland Art Commission is also on Facebook.) Now, [...]

Kadlec Medical Center is getting bigger. They just announced a “major expansion” of the main hospital campus in Richland. There are two main aspects of the expansion: Building out the top four floors of the new River Pavilion. This will add 101 beds to the facility over the next several years as our population grows. [...]

The DOE has announced that federal stimulus money has already had a direct impact on 700 jobs at Hanford. Here’s the news release (in PDF format for some reason; c’mon, folks, this is 2009). The DOE says stimulus money has led to the hiring of 400 new people and saved another 300 jobs. And the [...]

Heads up if your daily travels take you along Keene Rd. The bridge that passes over I-182 will be closed Monday and Tuesday, so you’ll need to find other routes. Best bet is to go around it by taking the Queensgate-Duportail combo to get back on Keene. No clue what they’re doing, but they’ve had [...]

While some schools in our state have closed because of the swine flu scare, it hasn’t happened in the Tri-Cities yet. But the folks at Richland School District are getting out in front of the curve a bit with some new information posted on their web site: Swine Flu – common sense precautions Swine Flu [...]