Hanford

Beneath the still waters of Puget Sound, submarines loaded with nukes patrol the Kitsap Peninsula and beyond.Farther east, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on…

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson is vowing to fight a federal challenge to a state law that allows Hanford workers who have become ill to receive…

For decades, artifacts of life and work from the Manhattan Project and Cold War era at Hanford have been locked away. Now, these historical items are...

A new federal bill was introduced Monday that would further protect whistleblowers at Hanford and other nuclear sites. The legislation was penned by...

A whistleblower who exposed massive fraud by a Hanford Nuclear Complex clean-up contractor has found to his dismay that he can't claim part of a large…

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden had to give up chairmanship of the US Senate energy committee, but he's not giving up his role as chief scold of the US…

When the federal government decided to make plutonium in southeast Washington, early farmers and whole villages of Native Americans were kicked out. Now...

Idaho shares a public health threat - and a nuclear waste cleanup headache - with neighboring Washington. Both states and the federal government are…

A new government watchdog report on continuing troubles at the old Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew a demand for immediate action from Oregon Senator Ron…

Removing and disposing of contaminated soil is one of the biggest jobs at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.