The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has laid off 1,200 to 2,000 employees, impacting key offices, including the National ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

The layoffs began on Thursday after the Office of Personnel Management met with leading agency officials and directed them to fire all employees still on probation. Federal employees who have worked ...

Washington Senator Patty Murray spoke out on Friday after “mass firings” from the Hanford site and the Bonneville Power ...

Though Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, tight margins may help tether acceptance of federal power grabs to reality.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of ...

▪ The Richland School District has canceled after-school activities and athletics for Thursday except for high school playoff ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, former CEO of the fracking company Liberty Energy, on Friday issued his first Secretarial Order which directs the Department of Energy t ...

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people ...

Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

The U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.