Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...

Trump’s nominee for energy secretary called finishing the environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington critical when he was questioned at a Senate hearing Wednesday.

Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright has become the nation’s energy secretary, despite questions about his commitment to Hanford environmental cleanup raised by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.

The Hanford guards will return to work at the Hanford nuclear site 47 days after they were locked out as their contract expired. On Thursday, the Hanford Guards Union approved a contract proposal ...

The Town of Hanover is moving forward with plenty of developments, including a substantial water main project along Routes 5 ...

The DOE Hanford office has 303 workers who manage the $3 billion worth of environmental cleanup work done annually by nearly 13,000 contractor and subcontractor employees at the Hanford nuclear site ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site near Richland included safety engineers, environmental scientists and employees who protect workers’ rights, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a news release Friday.