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A national jet fuel research center with headquarters at Washington State University Tri-Cities would receive $10.5 million in fiscal 2016 under a budget approved Friday by the Senate Appropriations Committee.Click to Continue »

High winds and hilly terrain helped a fire Saturday spread to more than 500 acres south of Finley. The state received a fire mobilization request because of the growing blaze…Click to Continue »

Maximino Castillo-Murcia, a Kennewick ice cream truck driver who exposed himself to a young teen girl, claimed his convictions should be tossed because a Spanish-speaking interpreter was not in court…Click to Continue »

A 2013 Mazda3 ended up in a Grant County canal Saturday afternoon when the driver’s inattention caused the car to leave Highway 243, Washington State Patrol officials said.Click to Continue »

Zachary J. Velasquez, 18, is suspected of negligent driving early Saturday when his car rolled off Highway 221 south of Prosser and into a nearby field.Click to Continue »

A motorist was injured Saturday afternoon when his van stopped at an intersection on Highway 240 in Richland and was struck from behind by a car.Click to Continue »

A Port of Kennewick commissioner will offer free guided historic walking tours of downtown Kennewick beginning July 18.Click to Continue »

Trash pickup in the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla and Yakima will be uninterrupted during the week of Independence Day, but some services will be affected and trash facilities will be closed…Click to Continue »

Joseph W. Hart’s convictions for assault and murder for a 2012 violent attack on his Pasco housemate violate double jeopardy principles, a state appeals court has ruled.Click to Continue »

Business owners in downtown Kennewick are kicking off an effort aimed at ridding the area of its perpetually homeless, messy and unruly residents: feral cats.Click to Continue »