The new and returning administration froze federal grant payments before a judge blocked the freeze. The status remains ...

The railroad was builtin 1947 to connect the Hanford site to the main railroad lines in Kennewick. The Department of Energy transferred it to the port in 1988 to support local economic development ...

As the country waited through decades of delay for the WIPP repository to open, the clean-up at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant was producing tons of low-level waste which contractors were ...

The reduction so far is about 16% of DOE’s Hanford workforce, which was 78% staffed when the layoffs were announced.

Solar power developer Hecate Energy has started to build what will be the US’ biggest solar farm on 10,300 acres at the ...

Layoffs at the Hanford site included safety engineers and scientists, Sen. Patty Murray said. Hundreds of other federal workers in the state lost their jobs too.

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.

Workers started preparing to clean up a highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford site 324 Building near Richland and the Columbia River in 2017. (Courtesy Department of Energy) More than a ...