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RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Washington Closure Hanford will lay off its remaining 435 workers starting in July as its U.S. Department of Energy contract comes to an end. The contractor notified the state of the pending layoffs Tuesday, as required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act...

SEATTLE (AP) — State and local regulators on Friday are releasing a sweeping review of a coal export terminal proposed along the Columbia River in southwest Washington. The analysis is expected to study impacts that extend well beyond the facility site in southwest Washington, from global-warming effects of burning the exported coal in Asia to rail impacts as the coal is from the Rockies throughou

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Washington state officials have eliminated the size and daily catch limits on Columbia River catfish, bass and walleye. State fishery officials made the decision last week for the portion of the Columbia River shared with Oregon. Ore...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The city of Vancouver is preparing to build a park along the Columbia River. The 7.3-acre parcel just west of Interstate 5 will complement a new 32-acre, high-density urban redevelopment project with planned office, retail and residential units. ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A state agency is now shifting through thousands of comments as it weighs a massive oil transfer terminal in southwest Washington. The Columbian newspaper reports the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council received nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the project's draft environmental review. Tes...

I am an avid fisherman. When the sockeye salmon started returning from the ocean I was beyond ecstatic! But Mother Nature has a different plan for the sockeyes other than being caught for food! The water in the Columbia River is so hot this summer that a lot of the fish are dying.

Grant County officials plan to announce in January whether they will be able to reopen any part of the Columbia River Shoreline between Wanapum Dam and Rock Island Dam for public use sometime this spring.

EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) — The Grant County sheriff's office says officers arrested a man Monday night in the death of a Yakima woman whose body was found by a hunter. The sheriff's office says 35-year-old Jose Abilion Aguilar Aguilar of Mattawa is jailed for investigation of murder...

The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites the public to experience living history at the ninth annual Heritage Days at Sacajawea State Park in Pasco. The event is Sept. 28 and 29 at Sacajawea State Park, 2503 Sacajawea Park Road in Pasco...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yakima County is set to study the possibility of drawing water from the Columbia River to assure adequate water supplies for agricultural irrigation. The county commissioners will commit $750,000 to a study next year...