Bechtel National earned an incentive payment of $14.2 million from the Department of Energy for its work on the Hanford nuclear site vitrification plant in Eastern Washington in 2024, receiving its ...

The Department of Energy staff at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington now has had almost 50 people in a staff of about 300 laid off and more cuts may be coming. The reduction so far is ...

Machine learning tool will help answer fundamental questions about the universe. A new AI-driven tool allows scientists to ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump said he wants the federal government to "take over" and govern the District of Columbia, claiming leaders of the nation's capital aren't doing enough to ...

More than 100 people protested at John Dam Plaza as job cuts hit local federal workers and other policies sparked concern.

Progressive Washington state lawmakers have introduced a bill that could remove George Washington from the state flag. House Bill 1938 aims to create a committee that will design a new state flag ...

including some at the Hanford nuclear site in central Washington, has Sen. Patty Murray "deeply concerned." "These are everyone from safety inspectors to people who deal with cybersecurity across ...

The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state including the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the Hanford ...

Spokespersons for Hanford did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday. The layoffs were among hundreds of others for Washington’s federal workers over the past week. The Trump ...

White House efforts to reduce the federal workforce have hit the Department of Energy’s largest nuclear cleanup project, the Hanford Site, and it does not sit well with Democrats in Washington state.

While LIGO’s laser can currently reach 750 kilowatts, it needs to surpass one megawatt to achieve its full potential.