Boeing said Wednesday it is reverting to an older approach that "has proven more reliable, requiring less work by hand and less rework, than what the robots were capable of." | Continue reading
Convoy, the Seattle-based company whose app promises to make the freight process more reliable and efficient, said it has raised $400 million in its latest funding round. | Continue reading
Three of the largest U.S. airlines — American Airlines Group, United Airlines Holdings and Alaska Air Group — are removing screens from their domestic workhorses, the family of medium-range 737 and A320 aircraft sold by Boeing and Airbus, respectively | Continue reading
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — The Russians were hard to miss. They appeared suddenly last year in Madagascar’s traffic-snarled capital, carrying backpacks stuffed with cash and campaign swag decorated with the name of Madagascar’s president. It was one of Russia’s most overt... | Continue reading
Despite clear indications from the previous month's Lion Air tragedy that the pilots had not responded as Boeing's safety analyses assumed, a company presentation to the FAA reiterated its previous assumptions and never approached the question of whether the 737... | Continue reading
The animal die-offs offer the world a stark example of the perils of rising ocean temperatures, which already are upending parts of the Bering Sea ecosystem as climate change — driven by greenhouse-gas pollution — unfolds in Alaska at a breakneck pace. | Continue reading
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Formula One is a global series with a large carbon footprint. Teams, drivers and fans fly to 21 races around the world, hauling tons of equipment. The cars use up and discard hundreds of tires during... | Continue reading
In response to a new policy on e-book purchases imposed by Macmillan Publishers and effective Nov. 1, King County Library System will be boycotting the publisher’s upcoming e-books. Seattle Public Library will not be boycotting but warns readers that they... | Continue reading
For investors, water rights are seen as an increasingly scarce and valuable commodity. But to Washington’s aging farmers, they’re valuable assets as the agricultural economy shifts beneath their feet. | Continue reading
Police and doctors didn't believe a 46-year-old man who swore that he hadn't had alcohol before he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. His blood alcohol level was 0.2, more than twice the legal limit for operating a car.... | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Alexis Bledel has been bookish and sweet on "Gilmore Girls" and "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." But the actress herself is now officially dangerous. Cybersecurity firm McAfee on Monday crowned Bledel the most dangerous celebrity... | Continue reading
The final report by air accident investigators into the Lion Air crash of a 737 MAX in Indonesia that killed 189 people a year ago provides a devastating critique of the design and certification of Boeing's new flight control system... | Continue reading
Boeing will not pay annual bonuses to its management, executives or unionized engineers and white-collar workers next February, payouts that for many years have pumped millions of extra dollars into the accounts of employees in the Puget Sound region and... | Continue reading
Amazon sells Holiday Toy List sponsorships for as much as $2 million, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg. | Continue reading
The Wellington Avalanche of March 1, 1910, near Stevens Pass is still the deadliest in U.S. history, with 96 lives lost. | Continue reading
We shouldn’t let Apple turn headphones into expensive, disposable products because of bad battery design, says tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler. | Continue reading
The Mary's Place shelter in Seattle will have room for 275 moms, dads and kids, an 18% increase in emergency shelter beds available to families with children in King County. Amazon says it is contributing more than $100 million to... | Continue reading
Creativity is shown not just in financing, but in opting to preserve older structures that are naturally more affordable and cost much less than developing new units. | Continue reading
Hong Kong’s position as a gateway to mainland China may now come with more risk than opportunity. | Continue reading
The details revealed in the ethics complaint raise new questions about the culture at Boeing and whether the long-held imperative that safety must be the overarching priority was compromised on the MAX by business considerations and management's focus on schedule and cost. | Continue reading
In the final installment of our special report Hostile Waters, we travel south to California, where memories of what once was are fading, and to places closer to home, where orcas bursting through the water are still a sight to... | Continue reading
Starting Tuesday, the curtain will be pulled away from a secret long kept within the community of real estate agents: how much the agent representing the buyer collects when a house is sold. | Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission is suing Match Group for allegedly using notifications about phony profiles to trick consumers into paying for a subscription to dating site Match.com The site lets people create profiles for free but... | Continue reading
The Apple Watch has a fall-detection feature, which sends out an alert if the wearer is immobile for 60 seconds after a fall. Bob Burdett suffered a concussion and abrasions but is recovering — and has already been back on... | Continue reading
A driven entrepreneur, taking shortcuts to grow his business, made it appear he had job offers for workers he brought to the U.S. when he did not. It comes at a time that the H-1B program, widely used by the... | Continue reading
For those who remember the dramatic protests over logging in the spotted owl's Olympic Peninsula habitat, building with wood seems counterintuitive. But loggers and environmentalists alike say that building with cross-laminated timber needs to be one part of the response... | Continue reading
Using remote cameras that detect motion and a machine learning system, a method that finds patterns in a large amount of data, some researchers say they have the answer to tracking the shy creatures during a critical time for their... | Continue reading
Ark Lodge Cinemas, which is in the middle of a sales drive, has struggled for viability since it opened in 2012. Like other independent moviehouses, it faces stiff challenges at a time when audiences are changing and competition from shiny... | Continue reading
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has posted a video on social media that appears to show the driver of a Tesla sleeping as the car speeds along a Boston-area highway. Teslas have an autopilot function, but the company says... | Continue reading
European aviation regulator EASA, conducting its own review of the 737 MAX, is not satisfied with Boeing's fix for the Angle of Attack sensors. It's demanding flight tests of the stability of the MAX in extreme maneuvers, not only with... | Continue reading
In a study that will publish this fall in the Journal of Research in Personality, individuals who posted a lot of selfies were almost uniformly viewed as less likable, less successful and more insecure than people who posted more "posies" — that is, traditionally... | Continue reading
Home prices in Seattle and the surrounding counties took a dip of 1.3% in June compared to last year, according to the latest data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index | Continue reading
SEATTLE (AP) — The Trump administration is opposing Washington state's effort to make a privately run, for-profit immigration detention center pay detainees minimum wage for the work they do. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued The GEO Group in 2017,... | Continue reading
With rent hikes already slowing down and even more apartments set to open in 2018 and 2019, renters will gain more power to negotiate with landlords. | Continue reading
King County plans to bring more medically-assisted treatment for opioids to homeless tent camps and shelters this fall. | Continue reading
Median condo prices across the county are down 3.4% year over year, to $400,000 in July. Meanwhile the median King County home sold for $680,000, down 2.7 percent over 12 months. | Continue reading
Following two deadly crashes of Boeing's 737 MAX and the ensuing heavy criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its limited oversight of the jet's original certification, the agency conducted newly stringent tests that in June uncovered a potential... | Continue reading
BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal officials say they've found a missile launcher in a man's luggage at the airport in Baltimore. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the military grade weapon was located in the man's checked luggage... | Continue reading
At a rock camp in Seattle, adults learn to prioritize growth over perfection. That's the animating force behind numerous skill-learning programs for adults, from weekend workshops to full-blown summer camps. | Continue reading
The pretty hefty "Asteroid 2019 OK" (its official name) was discovered only this week. One astronomer said it proves there are "still dangerous asteroids out there that we don't know of" that "can arrive on our doorstep unannounced." | Continue reading
Boeing boss Dennis Muilenburg said Wednesday that though the company's "best estimate" is that the 737 MAX will return to service in October, a slip in that optimistic timeline could mean the Renton 737 production line would be temporarily shut... | Continue reading
A study of census tracts across 100 big cities shows that the perception of gentrification might be more dire than reality. Researchers tracked individuals over time and found original residents might benefit from changes in their gentrifying neighborhoods. | Continue reading
More than 320 goats are happily working on a steep slope to reduce the fire risk in a neighborhood that was consumed by a wildfire four years ago. | Continue reading
The unprecedented research could help develop tools to control or eradicate populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a public health menace that spreads viruses. | Continue reading
Uber released an analysis this week of downtown tolls, known as congestion pricing, finding the policy could reduce travel times downtown, increase transit use and bring in more than $100 million a year. | Continue reading
Washington’s major crustal faults can generate quakes as big as magnitude 7 to 7.5. While that’s far less powerful than a magnitude 9 subduction zone megaquake, a quake of that size near any city in the state would be devastating. | Continue reading
Seattle ranks high in sustainability among American metros in a new UN report card. But most U.S. cities are much lower and Americans are divided on what the word even means, or the costs for attaining it. | Continue reading
The magnitude 4.6 earthquake began shaking about 9 miles east of Everett, according to the United States Geological Survey. | Continue reading