At Hanford Reach, the Steele family has bridged partisan divides for decades to ensure that this free-flowing stretch of the ...

The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

Richland, WA Washington state officials are optimistic that the Hanford nuclear reservation budget for the next fiscal year could top $3 billion — a record level of funding. “There’s more ...

Richland, WA The federal government has a new plan for land it has controlled in the Tri-Cities area since World War II. By April 15 the Department of Energy wants to hear proposals from companies ...

Richland, WA The Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most costly liability in the nation — the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored ...

The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Richland, WA Security police officers for the Hanford nuclear site will not be reporting to work Wednesday after the Hanford Guards Union Local 21 contract expires at 5:30 a.m.

2 elk were killed in a Highway 240 crash near Richland, Washington, and the Hanford nuclear reservation site, 2 people hospitalized. Elk, deer active in fall.

Dennis Faulk, the retired Hanford project manager for EPA in Richland, was 64. He was being remembered Wednesday as a strong advocate of Hanford site cleanup, who made a lasting difference.

Alvin H. Keck, 64, a Richland resident who worked as a piping engineer for Bechtel National, the Hanford Vit Plant contractor, died March 23, 2021, of chemical exposure.

Dennis Faulk, the retired Hanford project manager for EPA in Richland, was 64. He was being remembered Wednesday as a strong advocate of Hanford site cleanup, who made a lasting difference.

Richland, WA The federal government has a new plan for land it has controlled in the Tri-Cities area since World War II. By April 15 the Department of Energy wants to hear proposals from companies ...