She was a former Richland council member and a nuclear engineer at a time when few women had that career at Hanford.

In 2010, nuclear engineer Donna Busche warned of the risks of a disastrous radioactive explosion at a Hanford site waste-treatment plant, then under construction. She insisted on the need for ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear site is suspected of leaking highly radioactive and hazardous chemical waste into the ground, the Department of Energy said Thursday. “This ...

The Tri-Cities region is home to large number of engineers that’s consistently higher than the state average. Thanks to major employers including the Hanford site, Pacific Northwest National ...

The Hanford budget in fiscal 2024 was about $3 billion, but meeting legal obligations would have cost almost $3.8 billion, said the Washington state Department of Ecology.

New Dept. of Energy agreement with Washington state guides radioactive tank waste cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site near Columbia River.

There’s a new proposed plan for one of the largest and most expensive environmental cleanup projects in the world — the Hanford site adjacent to the Tri-Cities. There’s much to like in the ...

The State of Washington wins round one against Hanford in a court battle to keep workers safe at the site. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled against the U.S. Department of Energy, which argued ...

Firefighters at the Hanford site in southeast Washington burned 30,000 cubic feet of tumbleweeds in just one spot earlier this year. But in other parts of the country, people are paying to have ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating the lab that analyzes highly radioactive tank waste samples earned 95% of its possible incentive pay for fiscal 2024, up from 74% in the previous ...

The fungus that causes white nose syndrome appears to have killed more than 1,000 bats within the last year in the large colony that spends summers at the Hanford site in Eastern Washington. It is ...

Seattle poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland and worked as a civil engineer at Hanford in the 1980s. She served as Washington State Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. In her first year as ...