Manhattan Project National Historic Park exciting step for Tri-Cities, Washington, Nation

Washingtonians have a monumental reason to celebrate an exciting new development for the Tri-Cities community, our state, and our nation: the opening of America’s newest national park.

The anticipation has been building for years, and the Manhattan Project National Historic Park was officially dedicated with much-deserved fanfare last week.

With the new park, the legacy of the people who spent their lives and labor at Hanford will be preserved for generations to come.

Seventy years ago, the scene of the Hanford site would have been unrecognizable: more than 51,000 workers lived at the site to...