The top local leader for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has resigned, which follows the resignation of his second in command. Brian Vance has been the Department of Energy Hanford ...

The Trump administration plans to end the lease of the Richland office opened in 2001 to administer claims for ill Hanford and national lab workers and their survivors eligible for federal ...

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.

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during WWII and the ...

Courtesy of Troy Watlamet There’s a new sheriff — or — rather, a Hanford safety officer in town. The Yakama Nation has started a position to help protect the way-out 586-square-mile site.

The Department of Energy contractor responsible for security at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington will order guards back to work under its terms after Local 21 members voted down a ...

KENNEWICK – The Hanford guards will vote on a new contract proposal Friday after their employer said they must present a counteroffer it considers reasonable or return to work Thursday under the ...

That includes things like gunpowder, C-4 and dynamite. At the Hanford nuclear cleanup site in Southeast Washington, several specially-trained explosive sniffing dogs, like Freda, have been taken ...

KENNEWICK, Wash. — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused one of Hanford’s biggest contractors of repeatedly billing the government for work that wasn’t done in a multi-million dollar ...