The number of students studying the humanities at the University of Washington is shrinking, with some majors down as much as 50 percent in a decade. It's having a financial impact, and also affecting the breadth of the university's expertise. | Continue reading
Most of the cranes dotting the skyline now are building apartment high-rises, though there are also several new offices going up at a time of intense competition for space among companies. | Continue reading
Home prices across King County have fallen 12 percent since their spring highs. King County’s median single-family home price ticked up just 0.6 percent in December from a year before, and condo costs rose at the same rate — the smallest annual gain since early 2012, when the mar … | Continue reading
The biggest jet engines ever seen are now hanging from the longest wings on any Boeing plane. Ahead of the new 777X jet's rollout, Boeing offered a first look at its jaw-dropping GE-9X engines inside its Everett assembly plant. | Continue reading
Seattle built the fourth-most apartments of any metro area in the country over the past year, with only New York, Los Angeles and Dallas — all with far bigger populations than Seattle — building more. | Continue reading
Seattle built the fourth-most apartments of any metro area in the country over the past year, with only New York, Los Angeles and Dallas — all with far bigger populations than Seattle — building more. | Continue reading
This is the way a wood frog freezes: First, as the temperature drops below 32 degrees, ice crystals start to form just beneath the frog's skin. The normally pliant and slimy amphibian... | Continue reading
You're paying a premium to live here: The cost of living has risen faster in Seattle than in any other American city. | Continue reading
The great romaine recall of 2018 is a testament to how difficult it is to pinpoint tainted produce from thousands of farms across the country, despite a growing network of local, state and federal health departments tapping technology like genome sequencing. | Continue reading
As a priest takes the city to court, a young mayor tries to figure out how to deal with a sprawling longtime homeless camp on the riverfront. | Continue reading
Whether it's a secluded residential treatment center or a 12-step group, the Seattle area has become a hub for treatment of extreme tech use. The addiction diagnosis, not officially recognized, crops up among tech workers and others. | Continue reading
Alan Naiman died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children's charities. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are lauding Naiman as the anniversary of his death approaches in January. | Continue reading
Inside Boeing’s Everett assembly plant, the first 777X flight test plane is all but complete. Engineers and mechanics are preparing to roll out this majestic jet for its public debut as early as February. We got an advance look. | Continue reading
If humans continue to pump greenhouse gases at our current rate, “we have no reason to think it wouldn’t cause a similar type of extinction," said Curtis Deutsch, a UW professor and author of the research. | Continue reading
The Idaho National Laboratory in 2019 will move into a massive cybersecurity building and another that will house one of the nation’s most powerful supercomputers. | Continue reading
The new Allen Institute for Immunology will benefit Allen's hometown and people around the world, by helping researchers better understand the immune system and develop new disease treatments. | Continue reading
The lawsuit marks a new chapter in the ongoing tension between the world's largest online retailer and major brands that have to decide how to interact with a retailer than can be their partner and competitor. | Continue reading
Just like Bellevue, Redmond has rapidly diversified, with people of color now making up nearly half of its population, according to new U.S. Census data. | Continue reading
Researchers said the amoebas likely got into the woman's brain through the tap water she used to fill a neti pot, rather than using saline or sterile water. The organisms entered her brain after she squirted the water up into her upper nasal cavity. | Continue reading
Microsoft recommended that tech companies be required to publish documents that explain their technology’s capabilities and limitations and that people be told when facial recognition systems are being used in a public place. | Continue reading
The single-family zones that make up about 75 percent of Seattle's residential land have accommodated just 5 percent of all new housing added in the city this decade, according to the planning commission's report released Monday. | Continue reading
Microsoft closed stock trading Friday with a market value of $851.2 billion, topping Apple's $847.4 billion and making the Redmond company the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. | Continue reading
Microsoft managers likely knew that the former employee had filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company before the employee was given a poor review and laid off, according to the 8-1 ruling. | Continue reading
Who goes looking for Bigfoot? On a new podcast, a former NPR editor and producer found out. | Continue reading
Seattle had led the nation in home price increases for nearly two years and had been among the top two markets in the country for almost three years, but that has changed recently. | Continue reading
Mired under heavy debts, GigaWatt, one of the earliest players in Central Washington's bitcoin boom, has filed for bankruptcy protection, the latest casualty in an industry hammered by falling prices. | Continue reading
In Miami, home purchases cloaked in an LLC virtually disappeared after the Treasury Department implemented this disclosure rule, though buyers were able to hide their identity through other means. | Continue reading
An estimated 68,500 daily riders are expected to board the Lynnwood Link trains, which will provide an option to escape some of the nation’s worst highway delays. Construction is slated to be completed in mid-2024. | Continue reading
The company’s Electron rocket carried a batch of small commercial satellites from a launchpad in New Zealand, a harbinger of a major transformation to the space business. | Continue reading
The United Airlines pilot leadership, in a sharp break with peers at American Airlines and Southwest, pushed back against criticism of Boeing for not disclosing to airlines the existence of a new automatic flight control system on the MAX. | Continue reading
The company plans to start testing its car service on Seattle streets this week. Lime operates bike- and scooter-rental services in more than 100 cities around the world, but Seattle will be its first foray into car sharing. | Continue reading
Hundreds of Microsoft alumni gathered Saturday to remember the past, and see plans for Microsoft's massive campus renovation. "I mean, we grew up here," said Ed Fries, a co-creator of Xbox. | Continue reading
The pilot project, an attempt to make downtown deliveries more efficient, will start in the Pike Place Market neighborhood and, if successful, could expand around Seattle and the nation. | Continue reading
The Trump administration plans changes to the H-1B visa lottery that could boost the odds of visa applicants who have a master’s degree or higher from a U.S. university. | Continue reading
A year ago, Giga Watt was the golden child of the state’s bitcoin boom. Today, the company faces huge debts and angry investors, while the cryptocurrency sector is caught up in a massive price correction. | Continue reading
The Sears catalog revolutionized rural black southerners' shopping patterns in the late 19th century, allowing them to avoid the blatant racism that they faced at small country stores. | Continue reading
Paul Allen died Monday afternoon from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. | Continue reading
Snopes, the country’s most popular hoax-debunking site, is run by its founder out of a 97-year-old house in Tacoma. And is it ever busy, with 47 of its “Hot 50” posts having something to do with politics. | Continue reading
Bill Gates, in a Tuesday blog post, said he would contribute to the Yes on 1631 campaign, vote for the measure and encourage others to do the same. | Continue reading
Uber's vow to lobby for congestion pricing in Seattle could be the biggest boost yet for a City Hall effort that's certain to encounter political roadblocks. | Continue reading
It's been quite the reversal for the Seattle-area rental market, where rent growth has been near the bottom of the country in 2018 following years of rent hikes that were among the nation's largest. | Continue reading
Subscribers with several networks, notably AT&T and T-Mobile, reported being unable to download data or use their apps for hours soon after receiving a “presidential alert” test. AT&T blamed an unrelated hardware problem. | Continue reading
The 351 to 475 training aircraft and 120 ground-based training systems would be produced at Boeing’s St. Louis plant through 2034. | Continue reading
Only four years after achieving statehood, Washington was caught up in one of the worst economic collapses in U.S. history. | Continue reading
Six women computer scientists from the University of Washington respond to an essay about why women don’t pursue computer science as often as men. | Continue reading
Amazon said it never implemented the technology described in the patent, granted in 2016, and has no plans to. | Continue reading
Charging for parking by the day, not by the month, is one of the most powerful tools that employers have to spur their employees not to drive alone to work. Spurred by state law, Seattle-area employers have seen big results in keeping cars off the road. | Continue reading
CAIRO — When a new bout of fighting between rival militias engulfed the Libyan capital in recent days, badly shaking the fragile United Nations-backed government, some combatants picked up rifles and rocket launchers and headed into the streets. Others logged... | Continue reading