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Should remote workers take hush trips? Experts weigh in

Hush trips are an increasingly popular travel trend where remote employees work from a vacation destination and don’t disclose their location to their employer.

Maritime Industry

Dylan Jorgensen, a deckhand on the 46-foot F/V Miss Kathleen, this week with a catch of Dungeness crab off of Westport. Chuck Custer is the captain and his wife, Jennifer Custer, does the bookkeeping. They live in Ocosta, an unincorporate community in Grays Harbor County.

Dungeness crab at $5.99/lb. Nice! But crab fishers get $2/lb. Tough deal.

Real Estate

A 90-acre compound on San Juan Island is the most expensive home currently for sale in Western Washington at $75 million.

Sprawling WA island estate hits the market at $75 million VIEW

Technology

The digital version of the SIM card, included on many newer phones, is set to become prevalent. It also offers affordable cellular data abroad. (Derek Abella / The New York Times)

Attention, travelers: Now is the best time to switch to eSIM

Tech Reviews & Tips

A person uses a laptop while working from home in Tiskilwa, Illinois, in 2020. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg)

How to change Edge default browser settings | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Retail

Barbora Samieian, (CQ spelling) CEO of Canadian furniture brand Sundays at their new Seattle showroom on First Avenue in downtown Seattle. 223434

Canadian furniture retailer Sundays opens in Seattle

Agriculture

Workers pick corn and organic peppers at Yakama Farms, formerly Inaba Family Farms in Wapato, Wash., on Aug. 23, 2022. In the face of discrimination and hate, the Inabas and the Yakama Nation forged a bond through a farm in eastern Washington that has lasted for more than 100 years. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) XNYT260 XNYT260

A Japanese American family and a native tribe blend at a WA farm

Amazon

Amazon boxes during a delivery in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Amazon consultant admits to bribing employees to help sellers

Boeing & Aerospace

In this photo provided by Boeing, technicians work on the Starliner spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 19, 2023, in preparation for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. (John Grant/Boeing via AP)

Boeing’s 1st astronaut flight to space delayed until July

More on Boeing

The final version of the 737 MAX, the MAX 10, takes off from Renton Airport in Renton, WA on its first flight Friday, June 18, 2021.

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Microsoft

The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, on Wednesday morning on January 18, 2023. The software giant announced it would cut jobs in a number of engineering divisions.

Microsoft Seattle-area layoffs top 2,700 with tech giant’s latest cuts

Personal Finance

FILE – This July 24, 2018, file photo shows a portion of the 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return form. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Last-minute guide to filing your 2022 tax return: EV credits, shrinking refunds and more

Money Makeovers

Ann Wolfe, at her home in Wedgwood June 23, 2022.

She bought a house in Seattle for $36,000 in 1973. How can she release some cash?

Economy

On the Bainbridge to Seattle Washington State Ferry – Port of Seattle and downtown – 021122 Giant cranes on Harbor Island wait to unload cargo ships as Mount Rainier basks in the winter sun Friday, Feb. 11, 2022 in Seattle, Wash. 219599

Maritime is still big here, but for trade the seas are stormy | Jon Talton

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Maritime is still big here, but for trade the seas are stormy

Local Business

Street sinks for homeless people in front of University Heights Center on The Ave. A “Seattle Street Sink” has a utility sink, a soap dispenser, a planter box and a garden hose. The water drains into the planter box, which acts like a rain garden.

Seattle set aside $100k for street sinks. Two years later, where are they?

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Markets

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Stocks rally as Wall Street heads for winning March, quarter

Latest business headlines

Calif., 3 other states join bid to block JetBlue-Spirit deal

California and three other states are joining a federal lawsuit against JetBlue over its proposed $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines.

Careers

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