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Pasco real estate has a unique horse and cattle farm ‘not far down the road’. Southern Cross Land and Cattle has a specialist breeding program focusing on Mexican Azteca Horses, Miniature and Toy Australian Shepherds and Piedmontese Cattle. The horses are bred mostly for dressage, doma vaquero, or as working cow horses. The miniatures are [...]

The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is being finalized in Richland area, the festive event having started in 2003. Funding has led to the coordination of local assistance to enable numerous bicentennial projects to be held. These have included the Confluence Project, the Sacagawea Heritage Trail, as well as [...]

REALTORS Successfully Support Parks! The Washington State Legislature, with proposed Capital Budgets from the House and the Senate, has endorsed increasing the funding for the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program (WWRP) from $50 million to $100 million. Washington REALTORS strongly support the WWRP, a state grant program that funds protection of wildlife habitat and the [...]

During the past few years, significant changes that have caused a fundamental shift for the travel, tourism, and real estate industry have occurred. People are placing a greater premium on value, and the Internet has created market transparency. Not only do people have more travel choices. but they are able to easily compare prices from [...]

Many people have tried unsuccessfully to sell or buy a home. Even with the invention of the Internet- literally connecting millions- it can be a tough job. Not to mention fees and effort involved can stress you out to the point of exhaustion.
To help in the effort, is Homes for sale by owner. This revolutionary [...]

The Pasco Senior Center is not nearly as big as it once was due to a new generation of seniors whose interests are very different from seniors of the past, Paul Whitemarsh, recreation services manager for the city of Pasco, said.
The new generation of seniors I is more active and so the dances have faltered. [...]

The Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) is a standards-based assessment (not to be confused with a standardized test) which is one of a number of high school graduation examinations adopted by many states as part of the standards-based education reform movement, writes Wikipedia.
The concept of the WASL and the 1993 Education Reform legislation was [...]

Established in 1944, Richland Village Players Theatre started the same year that the first nuclear reactor was opened at Hanford. As a community organisation, the company emerged from residential meetings being held at the time at Grange Hill. The first production at the theatre was “Dixie Jubilee” presented to a full house in the new [...]

They served in different eras and fought in different wars, but Friday, more than 50 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5785 reminisced as the Kennewick post celebrated its golden anniversary.
Retired soldiers, members of the women’s auxiliary, children and grandchildren joined at the Kennewick headquarters to pay their respects to the post’s former [...]

Tri City Washington economic development proponents breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday night when the Richland City Council voted in favor of giving ConAgra the option to buy waterfront land at Columbia Point.
Mayor Rob Welch and Councilwoman Sheila Sullivan dissented in the 4-2 vote, saying they’d like the company to look at other locations [...]

Horn Rapids could become home to a new complex of four baseball fields by the summer of 2008.
The Richland Babe Ruth Baseball Association is the beneficiary of a $1 million proposal unveiled Monday in the state budget proposed in the House of Representatives. The money would be used to build a 15- to 20-acre complex, [...]

Eastern Washington’s landscape likely will see many more turbines and power plants built to harness the desert’s gusty winds, a new report forecast Wednesday.
But although wind power can play a large role in the Northwest, it will never be a consistent solution to regional needs, according to the 71-page report from a group of energy [...]

Washington State revenues are up by about $126 million more than previously thought, reporters learned Thursday in what may have been the most unremarkable meetings of the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council in some time.
Here’s the Associated Press report on the meeting.
The news is good on a few counts. For one, it means the [...]

OLYMPIA, Washington Real Estate News ~ The construction budget that House leaders unveiled Monday would expand prisons in Connell and Walla Walla, build a Hanford Reach visitors center in Richland and provide money to improve Tri-Cities Stadium in Pasco.
And the House version of the transportation budget would help build a pedestrian bridge over Highway 395 [...]

Richland Wa Homes ~ Sixty acres surrounding the little creek that flows through south Richland is to become a public wildlands park by the end of the month.
The Amon Creek area has been targeted for development. But at least a portion of the Amon Basin will be saved for hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders [...]

The clock is ticking for the city of Richland if it wants to bring Lamb Weston to Columbia Point.
The council will decide tonight whether to give Lamb Weston the option to buy 7.7 acres of waterfront property known as Tract D.
It also may be sealing the fate for 4.4 acres across Bradley Boulevard known as [...]

CONNELL, Washington Real Estate News ~ The Coyote Ridge Corrections Center expansion is keeping city officials’ hands full as they prepare for the 65 percent increase in the town’s population they expect to come from the project.
At least 2,048 of the new folks will be serving time behind bars, but those numbers still count toward [...]

Developing waterfront areas and consolidating Kennewick, Pasco, Richland and West Richland were identified as two of the area’s most pressing needs during a meeting of 110 regional leaders Thursday.
Business leaders, government officials, school district administrators and port representatives gathered at the Red Lion in Pasco for a three-hour discussion about the biggest impediments to the [...]

Columbia Basin College students overall are pretty happy with the education they’re getting, a recent survey shows.
More than 800 students responded to the survey and indicated a moderate-to-high level of satisfaction with the quality of instruction, value of their education, and the educational and career planning they get at the college.
“CBC is a pretty cool [...]

Washington Real Estate News ~ HB 2331 would fund infrastructure projects through the transportation improvement board’s urban corridor program to help local governments accommodate projected growth. The measure, which would help communities pay for roads that new homes need, has passed out of committee and is in House Rules awaiting floor action by the House. [...]

Home values in the State of Washington continue to rise and many senior homeowners are starting to look at ways to tap into the equity they have in their homes to help pay retirement living expenses. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) recently released it’s quarterly home price index showing Washington ranking fourth [...]

Spring cleaning is a tradition done in the end of winter days and the dawn of spring. People living in places with four seasons find it hard to clean their house during the winter days. Every inch of the house had to be cleaned to free from dust and layers of soot accumulated from the [...]

High job growth in the nonfarm sector over the last year augurs well for the Tri-Cities economy, the state’s regional economist reported Tuesday.
The number of jobs in the Tri-Cities rose by 2,400 over a year ago to 92,800, creating momentum for further economic growth, said regional state economist Dean Schau.
The local economy is showing robust [...]

Clark has felt very strongly that Americans could build better, more efficient housing if we build these homes in factories instead of on site. There is enormous waste, theft and inconsistency when homes are built on site. Making homes in factories is a much smarter way to do it. However, the idea has not caught [...]

It’s time for the Tri-Cities to put parochialism aside and come together to accomplish new goals, said several people attending a public forum Tuesday in Pasco.
The meeting, attended by about 60 people, was the second of three held this week to discuss possible regional center projects that could be built in the Tri-Cities. The next [...]