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Builders between rock and hard place with labor force, materials costs
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (214+ words) Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business Builders between rock and hard place with labor force, materials costs Demand for construction workers is at an all-time high across the country, driving up wages at the same time builders are wrestling with escalating…...
Cities turn to AI to speed housing permitting | Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business
4+ day, 59+ min ago (1488+ words) New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals. Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address one of the most…...
Real Estate & Construction Briefs – September 2026
4+ day, 59+ min ago (1089+ words) National meat processor Tyson Foods is downsizing its operations and its plant outside the Tri-Cities is on the block. The company announced Aug. 13 that it is pursuing the sale of its 273,438-square-foot facility at Wallula just southeast of the Tri-Cities…...
Networking – September 2026
4+ day, 59+ min ago (1543+ words) Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business Networking – September 2026 • Sara Woodruff is the newest physician assistant at Prosser Urology Center at Prosser Memorial Health. She has a clinical background in urology and experience in women’s health and has provided care in both…...
Consider these strategies to pursue more stable investing in AI
4+ day, 59+ min ago (434+ words) AI has dominated economic headlines for several years now, but investing in the transformative potential of AI can still seem a murky area to investors who want to catch the wave of opportunities evoked by those headlines. This can be…...
Amazon works to stem data center fears at Burbank open house | Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business
4+ day, 59+ min ago (665+ words) An August open house in Burbank hosted by Amazon Web Services on its proposed data center at the Wallula Gap Business Park welcomed a full house, with many attendees coming with questions and concerns about the project. Representatives with Amazon…...
Developers eye Native nations, tribal communities for new data center projects
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (1195+ words) The Columbia River Gorge as seen from above on May 8, 2026, near Pushpum, a site sacred to the Yakama Nation. Officials in Page, Arizona, a small city near the Glen Canyon Dam, passed a land sale agreement last fall that establishes…...
Labor unions are growing, but where depends on state politics
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (688+ words) Roughly 100 state employees lined Capitol Way in Olympia, Wash. to demand higher wages in their next two-year contract. Labor union membership continues to climb in the United States, though the increase remains sharply divided by the politics of individual states....
PNNL at forefront of nuclear rebirth
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (238+ words) The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan is the first retired nuclear power plant in the United States to seek U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensing to restart operations. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory experts assisted the NRC in streamlining the environmental assessment…...
Romance scams have a dangerous new high-tech playbook
2+ week, 59+ min ago (553+ words) Romance scams haven’t disappeared; they’ve simply adapted to the times. Today’s scammers use artificial intelligence, deepfake video and convincing fake investment platforms to build trust and steal money. The emotional manipulation is familiar, but the financial angle has changed in…...