Bob Brawdy

Deputy court clerk reads the first-degree murder guilty verdict that was returned by a jury at the trial for Joshua D. Davis in Franklin County Superior Court in Pasco. Davis is the Richland man who stepped aboard of a Pasco school bus and stabbed the 72-year-old driver Richard Lenhart to death nearly four years ago in Pasco.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright expresses the administration's support for the hydroelectric power generated by the Lower Snake River Dams Thursday during a visit to the Ice Harbor Dam in Walla Walla County.

Yakima River floodwaters surround homes, buildings and vehicles Friday morning off Van Giesen Street in Richland downstream of the bridge into neighboring West Richland.

Van Giesen Street between Richland and West Richland reopened Monday morning with a single lane in each direction as residents began cleaning up from a weekend of flooding along the lower Yakima River. An estimated 160 homes and RV lots affected by flooding, said emergency officials.

Crews from Pipkin Inc. of East Wenatchee have started preliminary work to take out Bateman Island's 500 foot long and 40 feet wide causeway. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $1.2 million contract, in partnership with other agencies, to the firm.

A Washington State Department of Ecology report issued in June 2023 identifies the pile and bales of discarded tires adjacent to the Richland Landfill on Highway 240 as the largest site in the state. It contains an estimated 7,100 tons of used tires.

Sarah Clasen leaves Benton County Superior Court with her defense attorney Scott Johnson after her Sept. 24, 2025, arraignment on one count of vehicular homicide while under the influence.

Several thousand Eastern Washington elementary students from 55 schools converged on Columbia Park in Kennewick on Tuesday to set free tiny salmon they've spent weeks raising at school.

A steady flow of muddy Yakima River water moves past the end of the breached causeway to Bateman Island in Richland after an excavator removed about the first 20 feet

Andrew Waterhouse, 19, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was crossing the cable bridge when he saw the seaplane fly west low over the cable bridge and then start to descend, he told the Tri-City Herald.