Schools are obviously out for the holidays, but with the bad weather today in Richland, two closures of note: Hanford is sending workers home right now — started at 12 pm. WSU Tri-Cities employees will be released at 1:00 pm. Added: Non-essential PNNL workers are being sent home at 2:00 pm. Hope everyone drives safely, [...]

Looking to get rid of your Christmas tree? But you’d rather recycle it than just toss it in the trash? The city of Richland will accept Christmas trees for recycling starting today (December 26), and continuing until January 10th. There are three locations where you can drop off your tree: Richland Pool parking lot, 1005 [...]

Rue21, a national clothing store that targets teens and young adults, is opening up a store at Vintner Square in Richland. The city says it’ll be located in the west end of the block of stores that includes Starbucks and Alegre Mexican Restaurant — in the Target shopping center area. No word on when the [...]

Just a heads up that there will be no garbage collection in Richland this Friday because it’s Christmas. The city says trash pickup will just be pushed back a day, so have your trash cans out for a Saturday collection, instead. Also, city offices will be closed both Thursday and Friday, December 24 & 25.

Just got an alert from the Richland School District that there’s no heat at Jason Lee Elementary and kids are being dismissed early. Here’s what the District sent out about 10 minutes ago: Jason Lee Elementary School will dismiss students at 12:45 pm today due to dropping temperatures in the school. The heating system has [...]

Okay, believe it or not, after almost 15 years of living in the Tri-Cities, I’ve finally visited the CREHST Museum in Richland. Yep, first time. We took an out-of-town guest there over the Thanksgiving weekend. Cari and the kids have been there before (several times, I think), but I never joined them. My reaction: Love [...]