Hundreds of Hanford workers will be laid off in September as the stimulus-driven clean-up effort winds down. Progress is not just noticeable on paper. It's also visible at the site’s largest reactor.

It's not just political pressure or empty threats, we are creeping closer to a government shutdown. It's a very real concern for folks in the Tri-Cities. Thousands work for the feds through the Hanford site. KEPR Action News is taking a closer look at what a shutdown would mean for our community.

The ERDF is a low-level radioactive and mixed waste disposal facility at Hanford. It's known as the "hub of clean up". The project is seven months ahead of schedule and $16.4 million under budget.

1,600 layoffs are coming to Hanford due to the end of stimulus funding, and Action News spoke with contractors about the changes to come.

At KEPR Action News we are keeping you ahead of the curve and looking ahead to the big stories you can expect to hear about in 2011. And one of the questions that keeps coming up, what will happen when Hanford stimulus money goes away?

Scientists in the Tri-Cities are test-driving technology to be used nationwide.

About one hundred canine officers were at Hanford's HAMMER site today to sniff, attack, and chase down bad guys. The training is important to law enforcement agencies from all over the state. What they learn here over a three day period keeps them fine-tuned for work.

A Hanford engineer filed a lawsuit Monday in Benton County Superior Court against two Hanford contractors, Bechtel National and URS Corporation. The contractors were hired by the Department of Energy to design and build the Waste Treatment Plant. The lawsuit alleges the contractors conspired to ignore safety concerns brought up by the engineer.

The traffic congestion from Hanford is not a new problem. But we wanted to find out if there was a new solution. A Facebook follower asked us to find out. So we looked into it and found some changes and some solutions well down the road.

Senator Patty Murray made a campaign stop in Kennewick, one day ahead of a visit by her new contender in November, Dino Rossi.

The Hanford nuclear reservation is already the most contaminated U.S. nuclear site, and federal efforts to find a permanent place for all of the nation's radioactive waste shouldn't impede plans to clean it up, people from various backgrounds told a federal commission Wednesday.

Hanford officials say they have doubled the number of truckloads they're hauling out of the Columbia River Corridor because of stimulus money.