West Richland News

The state of Washington has revoked the license of an adult residential care home in West Richland, forcing its owner to move the occupants out.

The state Department of Social and Health Services has stopped admissions, revoked and suspended the license of Parkview Adult Family Care Home in West Richland.

A strange sort of fever started spreading through the Tri-Cities just before midnight Friday.

A hike up Badger Mountain in the next couple of weeks can work out your legs, glutes, arms and philanthropy.

Katie Klute knows young people are bombarded with images that can distort how they feel about themselves -- such as airbrushed photos of stick-thin models with colored contacts and bleached hair.

The counties and cities in the Tri-Cities are balancing their budgets. 15 employees in Franklin County will be laid off at the beginning of the year.

The West Richland City Council will meet in executive session at 6:30 to review litigation issues, than at 7:00 is expected to approve the 2010 budget for the city. Highlights of the buget includes a reduction in water service base rate by $0.50/month, partially offsetting a $0.60/month increase in storm water rate.

West Richland is looking to adopt today a nearly balanced budget that avoids layoffs, but also has no spare change for new hires.

The first-time homebuyer tax credit has heated up the Tri-City housing market. The federal credit probably helped sell more than 1,700 homes in the $200,000 and under price range in the last year, out of a total of 2,662 homes sold during that time, said Paul Roy, vice president of the Tri-City Association of Realtors and a Coldwell Banker ...

Although Benton PUD is proposing a rate increase for residential and commercial customers, Franklin PUD and Benton Rural Electric Association (REA) don't plan on following suit, but Richland might.

A Richland man was injured in a two-car accident this morning on Highway 240. Randall L. Persinger, 51, was eastbound on Highway 240 heading to eastbound Interstate 182 about 10:55 a.m. when his 1996 Nissan Maxima went off the road, overcorrected and hit a 1996 Toyota 4Runner also going eastbound, the Washington State Patrol reported.

Dale Wilson, a West Richland reserve officer and emergency dispatch supervisor, told his sister how to handle her husband's increasingly aggressive behavior just weeks before the man showed up at her Portland-area workplace armed with several guns.

People in West Richland, who have been angered over plans for a new road through their neighborhood, jammed a Planning Commission meeting Thursday.

A West Richland military veteran is in Washington D.C. to share the stage with the First Lady, Michelle Obama and Dr.

Leslie Hauer, a homeowner on Collins Road, is suing the city. She filed a civil lawsuit in Benton County Superior Court last week.

West Richland Police are asking people to be on the lookout for three suspects in a small, white car who reportedly offered sex and drugs to three boys.

There's no one in the world Jaime Conrad Picker loves more than her 2-year-old daughter Cadence. Jaime leaves today to begin treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, a condition in which the bone marrow doesn't make enough healthy blood cells. She was diagnosed this summer. MDS is serious on its own, and her doctors at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance warned her it could soon progress into a type of leukemia that's notoriously difficult to treat.

A car plunged off the Interstate 182 bridge over the Yakima River in Richland on Sunday morning, killing a 16-year-old Kennewick boy.

Parade today November 7th starting at 9:30 in West Richland. Grand Marshal Steve Prince.

Former West Richland resident Jason Alves will be joining other military veterans from the Northwest in Washington, D.C., on Veterans Day to share their experiences.