Northwest CEOs saw a lopsided bump in equity pay
In a typical Pacific Northwest public company, the average CEO salary increased 7 percent while stock-based compensation jumped 18 percent to $3.02 million.
T-Mobile CEO sprints to top of best-paid bosses at NW companies; check your pay against the top 90
John Legere's pay package is simply a grander version of the compensation formulas that most of the biggest publicly traded companies use to reward their...
Starbucks stores to stop selling newspapers in the fall, pointing to ‘changing customer behavior’
In September, Starbucks will remove all newspaper stands from its 8,600 company-owned U.S. locations in response to "changing customer behavior."
June real-estate numbers tell a now-familiar story: Seattle is losing buyers to Tacoma, other outlying spots
June's housing data reinforces a shifting narrative in the Puget Sound market: Priced-out buyers are fleeing Seattle and bringing new demand, and, maybe new problems,...
Naturalization ceremony creates 500 new Americans, underscores immigration tensions VIEW
For the 35th time, new citizens were sworn in at a Seattle ceremony held on the Fourth of July, a visual representation of the American...
Puget Sound Energy to make all-too-rare woman CEO to woman CEO succession
Mary Kipp, Puget Sound Energy's new president and future CEO, arrives at a pivotal time for the investor-owned utility. She also represents one of the...
Shares of Adaptive Biotechnologies double in hot IPO
The stock's doubling made it the secon-largest opening-day jump of an IPO this year, according to Nasdaq.
Seattle’s Adaptive Biotechnologies upsizes stock offering on strong investor interest
The company's initial stock offering is the state's largest in several years, reflecting strong interest in the technology behind the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...
Safeway plans Seattle upgrades and redevelopments, but questions remain about timing
The Boise-based grocery chain, which operates 17 stores in Seattle, wants shoppers to know it has "imminent plans" to remodel nearly half of them along...
‘This is a change election’: Amazon-backed Seattle Chamber endorses City Council candidates
The endorsements signal the Chamber's dissatisfaction with the current council, and the group's leaders say they're optimistic a majority of voters share that view.