Seattle-area home prices accelerate; city still No. 2 in the nation
Home prices in Seattle rose 10.1% compared to last year — faster than all but one major U.S. city. The market usually cools down with...
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Surviving businesses plunge into second round of COVID restrictions better prepared than they were 8 months ago
Across Seattle and the state, employers, workers and consumers are plunging into the second round of restrictions better prepared in some ways than they were...
Seattle startup to help moon robots survive the long lunar night WATCH
A team of engineers awarded a NASA contract to work on a shoebox-sized lunar rover has tapped Seattle-based WiBotic and the University of Washington to...
For sale: $6 million Whidbey Island survival compound, stocked to withstand a pandemic VIEW
PetSmart CEO W.R. "Ford" Smith II is selling a 59-acre estate on Whidbey Island with a bullet-resistant house, escape tunnel to the woods and a...
Microsoft pitches in an additional $65 million for affordable housing
Microsoft says it will make two loans totaling $65 million to local housing groups with the goal of creating more than 1,000 new affordable housing...
Jack Block, the only longshore worker elected to Port of Seattle Commission, dies at 86 VIEW
Block served 28 years on the Port of Seattle Commission, helping transform Seattle's waterfront from a rat-infested row of crumbling piers into a destination for...
Bezos Earth Fund gives nearly $800 million to climate groups in first round of grants
The $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund will award $791 million to 16 environmental organizations largely focused on researching and implementing ways to reduce carbon emissions,...
Amazon expands palm-scanning payment technology to 3 more Seattle-area stores
Privacy advocates worry the expansion of Amazon's palm-scanning technology could point to more biometric surveillance in the future. Consumers will see it in more Amazon...
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected where you live?
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Even as Seattle home market dips, heated competition by homebuyers spreads to neighboring counties
In King County, prices dipped slightly from September — but not so in Snohomish, Kitsap and Thurston counties. See what is happening in your community.