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Top 12 Famous People Born in Pasco, Washington

Pasco, Washington has produced an interesting spread of talent for a city its size. Some names became household-level famous through major sports and bestselling books. Others are well-known inside specific worlds like poetry, classic TV, boxing, and dance music. This countdown uses the ranking we already set, presented from #12 up to the most notable at #1, with each entry focused on what the person is known for and their Pasco connection.

Pasco, WA · 17h

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This inmate champions workforce development behind bars

The first question Don Crews posed to an inmate he was helping prepare for life after prison stopped the man in his tracks. Crews had handed the man, who is incarcerated at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, a packet of documents designed to help him plan for his release. But imagining a future beyond prison wasn’t easy.

Connell, WA · 3d

The Coconut Mama

Iconic Washington drive-in closes after 25 years, ending a family chapter

Washington has lost another longtime local favorite, joining a growing list of beloved Washington restaurants that recently closed. Fast Eddy’s in Walla Walla served its final burgers and milkshakes on…

Walla Walla, WA · 1d

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Judge rules county violated state law

Adams County, WA · 1d

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Our Town: Basin City, sealed with a kiss from Kiko!

BASIN CITY, Wash. - Just north of the Tri-Cities, Basin City is a small community with deep agricultural roots. The area was developed in the 1950s to support a growing farming industry, and orchards still help define its landscape today.

Basin City, WA · 2d

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SMR project moves beyond big announcements into planning mode

There were no big reveals about the planned future SMR facility north of the Tri-Cities during Energy Northwest’s recent summit on public power and energy issues. The annual Public Power Forum in Kennewick has been the setting for major announcements about the project in the past two years. Two...

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Church members build new home for growing congregation

In the farmland just outside Pasco’s city limits, a congregation came together on evenings and weekends over the course of two years to build a new church. The result is a 36,606-square-foot building with a sanctuary large enough for more than 1,000 people, classrooms, a commercial kitchen, dining space and something the congregation didn’t have before: its own cemetery.

Pasco, WA · 3d

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These 8 Old-School Chinese Restaurants Stand Out Across Washington For Classic Dishes

One restaurant on this list has swinging cowboy doors and more than 90 years of wonton soup behind it. I love that detail so much in Washington. Another spot keeps a separate entertainment room called the Lotus Room, complete with a jukebox. A third still serves something called the Bo Bo Platter.

Washington · 6d

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Still not home. Family of Tri-Cities pilot MIA in Vietnam holds onto hope

For 58 years the family of Major San D. Francisco have been waiting for a follow-up to the telegram delivered to their home in Burbank with the devastating news that his F-4 Phantom jet had been shot down over Vietnam . Despite an extensive search and rescue mission, he was not found alive, and his body has yet to be recovered and returned home. “There’s hope. There’s always hope,” said his sister Terri Francisco-Farrell of Kennewick, on the eve of Veterans Day 2026. Before Veterans Day 2025, she was told that new technology could be used to find her brother’s body. Officials had approved using a drone equipped with a magnetometer, which can detect metals at a greater distance than conventional metal detectors. It could alert to metal from a cluster bomb that hit the area. Francisco was killed by friendly fire, with his remains likely among the metal, said Francisco-Farrell. But no progress to use the technology was made in the last year. “There’s just not money available right now,” Francisco-Farrell said. She is encouraged that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency met with her niece in March and told her that the status of Francisco’s case has been upgraded

Kennewick, WA · 4d

Crafting Your Home

A Tri-Cities Woman Who Films Shelter Dogs Without the Sad Music Has Built a TikTok Following of About 175,000

Julie Saraceno skips the sad shelter content and has built about 175,000 TikTok followers, hoping upbeat videos drive adoptions and volunteering.

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Dave's Hot Chicken update + New pizza restaurant delayed and more Tri-City food news

You’ve seen the signs. The “Coming Soon” banner on that long-empty building or the flashy posting on Facebook and Instagram. New restaurants, coffee shops and more are in the beginning stages of their Tri-Cities’ debut. They may not be quite ready to open, but we’ll share what we know about them. Send your questions and tips to news@tricityherald.com. Pizzeria Evo 6494 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick Chef Donny Evola is getting ready to open up his pizza place: Pizzeria Evo. The grand opening was set for Sunday, Nov. 15, but the party has been delayed to some time in mid-December. For Evola, pizza making is art form. The award-winning “pizzateer ” lets his dough ferment for 72 hours before serving hungry customers. “When you eat my pizza, you don’t feel like ‘Oh man, my stomach,’” Evola said. “My pizza is very digestible.” Evola has occupied two units at the 1-derful Food Park since February. Dave’s Hot Chicken 7235 Burden Blvd., Pasco The old Subway off Road 68 has been transformed. Now, Dave’s Hot Chicken signs brand the outside of the building. Dave’s Hot Chicken didn’t respond to the Tri-City Herald’s question about an opening date, but this will be the first

Kennewick, WA · 5d

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1 elk, 2 deer hit in morning crashes near Tri-Cities. It's mating season

Washington State Patrol troopers were called to three crashes with elk or deer in the Tri-Cities area Monday morning, an unusual number for one day, said Trooper Daniel Mosqueda. No people were injured, even in the one crash that involved an elk. Information about the animals was not immediately available. A pickup driving northwest in the Horn Rapids Area on Highway 240 , sometimes called the Hanford Highway, hit an elk about 6 a.m. Although it is not known if the driver was headed to work at the Hanford nuclear site , the highway has many commuting Hanford workers at the time of the crash and a large elk herd roams the nuclear reservation. The other collisions were between deer and vehicles at about 4:30 a.m. on Highway 395 near Connel l and at about 5:50 a.m. on eastbound Interstate 82 near the Badger Road exit in Kennewick . “We just want to remind our drivers, especially at dawn and dusk, (deer and elk) are very active,” Mosqueda said. “We want to make sure that people are aware that we share the road with more than just cars.” At Hanford, the 580-square-mile nuclear environmental cleanup site adjacent to Richland, about

Hanford, WA · 5d

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Kennewick cafe’s new home makes room for growth

The owners of a popular European-style cafe in the Southridge area of Kennewick are expanding to a bigger location a half mile away. Café Magnolia, currently located in the Cynergy Center at 4309 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, attracts visitors from Portland traveling on Highway 395, while regular customers drive from Spokane, Walla Walla, Sunnyside, Prosser and even Seattle to get their fill of coffee, pastries and lunch items.

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Pasco weighs attendance fix to elementary that could grow to 1,000+ students

The Pasco School Board is considering whether to redraw attendance boundaries to place some Columbia River Elementary students into schools closer to their homes. Pasco School District ’s newest elementary school, which opened in 2020 and is located at 9011 Burns Road , is over capacity as new housing developments continue to spring up in the Broadmoor area. Over the next five years, Columbia River enrollment is forecast to grow 38% to more than 1,000 students if no action is taken. About 4,600 new homes are planned or permitted in the school’s area, said Mark Garrett, the school district’s chief of technology and capital planning. “Basically all the development that’s happening (in the city) is in Columbia River’s boundaries,” he said. The attendance boundary changes impact families living around Road 68, and between Sandifur Parkway and Burns Road. Those students could attend either Maya Angelou or Barbara McClintock STEM elementaries starting in fall 2027. The adjustment would impact as many as 200 Columbia River students, Garrett said. The school district is actively soliciting feedback from families, with a board decision expected in January. Pasco will let 5th grade students remain at their existing school for the last year of elementary,

Pasco, WA · 8h

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Meet Rufus, the Little Dog Looking for Big Love in the Tri-Cities

There's a little guy named Rufus who'd love nothing more than to be your shadow, and he's waiting in Pasco.

Pasco, WA · 3d

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Brace for heightened business taxes in 2027

All the attention may be on recent debates around the state’s coming income tax on high earners, but business owners also will be seeing a bigger tax bill. The business and occupation (B&O) tax rate for a slew of business activities will increase to 0.5% as of Jan. 1, according to the state Department of Revenue.

Kennewick, WA · 6d

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Hubby’s Pizza marks 50 years by keeping tradition on the menu

For five decades, people have celebrated birthdays, youth sports and family dinners at Kennewick’s Hubby’s Pizza, where the only significant changes have been the prices and one brick wall – but more on that later. Promoted as “halfway between the bridges,” the restaurant at 346 W. Columbia...

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Public Hearing Coming November 18th Over Proposed Sale of Kennewick Park

City is considering selling Yelm Park to a civic group

Kennewick, WA · 2d

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