Artist Michael Brophy's "Reach: The Hanford Series" is on exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of ...

The highway also feeds traffic across the Hanford reservation to the Vernita Bridge crossing of the Columbia River into Grant County. In all, the reconstruction is expected to last 3 1/2 months.

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

The U.S. Department of Energy picked roughly 400 people to lay off at the Bonneville Power Administration, which masterminds how 28 percent of the Pacific Northwest’s electricity is distributed to hom ...

Hanford is unusual in the federal government ... including to protect the Columbia River that flows through the site, with another 60 years of work expected to complete cleanup.

There are many contaminated buildings, and 56 million gallons of toxic radioactive sludge stored in aging underground tanks that leak, not far from the Columbia River. Hanford and the Pacific ...

The shortface lanx is sometimes referred to as the giant Columbia River limpet for its characteristic cone ... The shortface lanx has already disappeared from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia where ...

Hanford employs about 13,000 people on and ... Western Washington or planning to drive Interstate 84 through the Columbia River Gorge or east toward Idaho this weekend: Travelers from the ...

(Hanford’s site is nearly 400,000 acres ... of poisoned land that was leaching toxic waste toward the Columbia River 6 miles away. The Energy Department started an initiative in 1990 to ...