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Blue Bridge Traffic Gonna Be Jacked Up For a Few Days I think most of us tend to take our Tri-Cities bridges for granted until there's an accident or a lane closure. Then we really feel the pain of getting from one side of the river to the other. If you usually travel from Kennewick to Pasco over the blue bridge (that's northbound for those of us that are direction challenged), roadwork will be taking place from 9:00 a.m. To 3:00 p.m. today through Thursday. That means one northbound lane across the bridge and the Columbia drive northbound ramp to the bridge will be closed during those hours....

Pasco Police Talk Down Potential Cable Bridge Jumper Scary stuff over the weekend happened on the cable bridge as Pasco Police were called in to talk down a man who was ready to jump from the Cable Bridge. The incident happened at about 1:45 PM on Sunday afternoon on February 28th. A concerned DOT worker helped Pasco Police avoid a potential jumper situation on the Cable Bridge that connects Pasco to Kennewick. Here is the report according to the Pasco Police Department: At about 1:45 PM Sunday afternoon, Dispatch reported that a sharp-eyed DOT employee was on the Cable Bridge with a male ou...

227 3 minutes read This article is part of Liberation’s commemoration of Black History Month, 2021. Katie Barton was a tireless and militant Black activist in her community of Tri-Cities, Washington. In what became her life’s work towards fair treatment and equal rights for Black people, Katie Barton played a significant role in taking down the Jim Crow style “No blacks after dark”  sign that once hung on the bridge that connected East Pasco to its “sundown town”  sister-city Kennewick.  “Mother-Katie Barton, she stayed on it all the time. And she was the one that took th...

Pasco Police have released details about the wild apprehension of a drug suspect from last Thursday. Around 10 PM, Officers were called to the Sage N' Sun Motel at the base of the Cable Bridge in Pasco. A female victim who rents a room there had left for several hours, but when she returned, she found 30-year-old Amber Rae Diaz of Richland and another person in the room, "doing drugs and laughing." The male left, but Diaz refused. She assaulted the victim, shoved her outside, and locked her from the room.  Officers got a key from the front desk, but Diaz continued to hold the handle from th...

High Speed Volvo(?!) Chase Ends in Crash Into Jewelry Store What began as a chase in Benton County ended near midnight Sunday night in Pasco, with an errant driver smashing their vehicle through the front window of a jewelry store. The driver's name was not released, but Pasco Police say BCSO units were pursuing this Volvo SUV across the Cable Bridge into Pasco. The driver failed to negotiate the dogleg intersection at 10th and Sylvester, and plowed through the front and into a jewelry store, after "bouncing off a lightpole" according to Pasco PD. Benton County is handling the eluding and arr...