Anna King
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Department of Justice says that a federal contractor charged for time that workers were idle.
They accused Hanford Mission Integration Solutions of knowing that those charges were wrong.
It all came out from a whistleblower.
He claimed that Hanford's fire control systems were not being maintained by his employer.
Richard Condit is with the whistleblower's law firm.
He says the company's plans for workers were mismanaged.
According to the Justice Department, the falsified record-keeping happened for several years.
In this field north of Pasco, Washington are recently mown down asparagus ferns.
The ground will be tilled up soon, readied for spring.
Tariffs could really shift the domestic asparagus market.
That's Alan Schreiber, who heads up the Washington Asparagus Commission.
He says farmers might not have to ship crops far away if they're not competing with Peru and Mexico.
But it's still not yet clear if the tariffs will stick.
Some Northwest winemakers say you can go casual with bubbles.
Walla Walla winemaker Gilles Nicole is from France, but the winemaker has been in Washington making luxe wines for more than 30 vintages.
He says, yeah, you can be all romantic with candlelight and sparkles, or you can just open a bottle on a weeknight with takeout.