Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright has become the nation’s energy secretary, despite questions about his commitment to ...

The contractor employs about 400. The Hanford site, adjacent to Richland in Eastern Washington, produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation ...

The Hanford site was established as part of the Manhattan Project, which resulted in development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. For decades after, plutonium for the U.S. nuclear ...

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during WWII and the ...

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HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A suspect has been arrested for a deadly shooting in Hanford on Thursday night. The shooting happened around 8:15 pm in a parking lot near the In-N-Out restaurant on 12th ...

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- An investigation is underway after a deadly shooting in Hanford on Thursday night. The shooting happened around 8:15 pm in a parking lot near the In-N-Out restaurant on ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about 10 minutes.

Each year, millions of visitors marvel at the geological intricacy and beauty of the vast chasm of the Grand Canyon carved through the Arizona desert by 5 million years of water erosion.

WASHINGTON — The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power of the Colorado River. Close to the moon's south pole ...

And that debris was remarkable in that it actually carved two canyons, nearly 300 kilometers long. 20 to 25 kilometers wide and 2.5 kilometers deep. From *** scientific point of view, how they're ...