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Royal City Schools: 2-hour delay  

After a marathon special session on Saturday, the Kennewick City Council selected Chuck Torreli to serve the remainder of former Councilman Matt Boehnke's seat. Boehnke was elected to the State House of Representatives in the November elections, and opted to vacate his seat on the council...

The Benton Franklin Health District has confirmed a second flu-related death in Benton County. According to a press release, the victim was a woman in her 80s. On Monday, health officials announced that a man in his 70s had died from flu-related complications...

Kennewick Police have arrested two men in connection with a home invasion robbery. According to a press release, a man reported that three males went into his apartment in the 100 block of N. McKinley Street at about 10:00pm Sunday night...

A Benton County man is in critical condition after his car plowed into an office building in Richland Tuesday night. Richland Fire crews were called out to a report of a commercial building fire just before 9:00pm Tuesday, and it wasn't until they got on scene and started putting water on the flames that the realized there was an SUV inside the building...

WASHINGTON: Bickleton School District: 2-hour delay Finley Sch. Dist.: AM Bus Route 2 - Hill Run will not be picking up students due to ice and road closure (Effective - Wed Jan 9th) Royal School District: 2-hour delay Yakima Sch. Dist.: A...

A man in his 70s is the first person in Benton and Franklin Counties to die from the flu this season. He is also the 10th influenza-related death in Washington this flu season. In making the announcement, the Benton-Franklin Health District is re-issuing its call for anyone over the age of 6 months to get a flu shot...

"In the first 6 months of this fiscal year, we've served more than 80 individuals," said JoDee Garretson, Executive Director of Support, Advocacy, and Resource Center (SARC) in Richland. The organization works to help victims of sex trafficking in the Tri-Cities...

Kennewick Police have arrested a second teen in connection with an armed robbery. According to a press release, the robbery happened at about 12:45 a.m. on December 22, 2018, when a teenaged boy was walking in the area of 24th and Tacoma Street...

On Friday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced his Marijuana Justice Initiative to provide pardons for certain people who have convictions on their record for misdemeanor marijuana possession. “We shouldn’t be punishing people for something that is no longer illegal in Washington state,” said Inslee, as he announced the initiative at the annual Cannabis Alliance conference. “Forgiving these convictions ca .