The donation went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It's the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings. | Continue reading
Its little bricks have barely changed in decades, but Denmark-based Lego is working on an update: to eliminate its use of petroleum-based plastics, using entirely plant-based or recycled materials by 2030. It's a big job (and stepping on one barefoot will probably still hurt). | Continue reading
The Justice Department charged Pradyumna Kumar Samal, the chief executive of Redmond firms Divensi and Azimetry, with using a tactic called “bench-and-switch” to fraudulently get high-tech visas. | Continue reading
Despite the recent cooldown in the market, Seattle is now the third-most expensive city in the country to buy a home, behind San Francisco and San Jose. Just four years ago, Seattle was 10th. | Continue reading
Allison Farris, a Microsoft employee in D.C., will compete in the Miss America pageant in September. | Continue reading
A new group of Amazon employees sharing their happiness with their jobs in company warehouses, though small, appears to represent a new front in the company’s effort to portray itself as a generous employer. Amazon has been criticized for years by activists and labor unions for w … | Continue reading
Accountguard tools and training are comparable to the technology level offered to government and big corporate customers. The service is the newest part of Microsoft's Defending Democracy program which aims to make elections secure. | Continue reading
Vulcan, which owns the property and is developing the campus, expects to begin construction toward the end of 2019 and to finish in July 2021. | Continue reading
Despite a record construction spree in Seattle, housing growth is actually down a bit this decade across King County as a whole, because development in the suburbs has plunged from its historical average. | Continue reading
It's the coffee giant's second attempt in five years to grow an artisan bakery chain. | Continue reading
The Seattle City Council passed legislation Monday to bring more bike shares to Seattle and more bike lanes to downtown. But more bike sharing depends on private companies accepting higher fees, and the Seattle Department of Transportation is dubious of the bike-lane timeline. | Continue reading
A wave of homelessness threatens to overwhelm charity workers in Ballard, while their neighbors become more and more frustrated with the city’s response. | Continue reading
The discovery of radioactive metal tissue boxes at U.S. Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in January highlighted one of the topics drawing world leaders to a nuclear security meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday and Tuesday. | Continue reading
The company’s move into ride-hailing is part of an emerging trend among personal-transportation companies to offer users multiple ways to get around via one app. | Continue reading
As parents are slowly reunited with the children Border Patrol took away weeks or months ago, experts warn that many kids may have been deeply traumatized. Here are some of their voices. | Continue reading
Washington is widely considered to have one of the more secure elections systems, in part because the state’s mail-in balloting means the state has a paper record for almost every vote cast. | Continue reading
Amazon warehouse workers afraid to go to the bathroom or take a sick day. Unattainable productivity targets. Constant surveillance. How accurate is author James Bloodworth’s portrayal? A tour in Kent delivers some answers. | Continue reading
That could give Microsoft an edge over other potential bidders in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract. | Continue reading
As new apartments open across the city in record numbers, vacancy rates have grown, rents have stopped rising and landlords are offering an increasing number of freebies to get tenants in the door. | Continue reading
A slew of technical problems with the three latest-technology jet engines is widely disrupting operations at airlines, bleeding cash from the engine makers and grounding significant numbers of Airbus and Boeing jets. | Continue reading
The vote to kill the $275 per-employee tax represents a victory for Amazon and the other big businesses that would have paid it and have been funding a referendum campaign against it. | Continue reading
Although Google promotes lively internal communication, it has been rare for employees to speak out publicly against the company. This is changing as Google has grown and become entwined in increasingly controversial matters. | Continue reading
NPS plans to move its regional offices out of San Francisco’s pricey Financial District to a cluster of buildings near Fort Vancouver, saving millions in rent and reduced salaries. | Continue reading
During the Cold War years, the Soviets ran a secret, massive program that produced a million maps of cities and places around the world. They were remarkably accurate and contained information not found on local maps — like the “explosive devices” factory in Ballard. | Continue reading
Mackenzie Andrews, who is about to graduate from the University of Washington, began a quest to understand her father and why her family fell apart after his arrest. | Continue reading
New census data show Seattle notched another year of impressive population gains in 2017. We've now outpaced Austin in rate of growth since the start of this decade, ballooning 18.7 percent, or 114,000 more people. | Continue reading
911 dispatch tapes from Saturday’s fatal cougar attack show a distraught survivor worried about his friend, and passers-by who stopped and tried to help. | Continue reading
Scientists at the Nobel-winning LIGO project caught the birds in the act, pecking at a frosty pipe along one of the observatory’s 2.5-mile-long arms | Continue reading
The legislation calls for a tax of $275 per employee, per year on for-profit companies that gross at least $20 million per year in the city — down from a $500-per-head tax that Mayor Jenny Durkan had threatened to veto. | Continue reading
The median cost of a single-family home in King County was a record $725,000 last month, while home prices in Snohomish County have surpassed $500,000 for the first time. | Continue reading
Seattle has struggled to get thousands of people living in their vehicles into housing. How have programs in San Diego and Santa Barbara managed to be more successful, and cost effective? | Continue reading
Tesla’s billionaire chief executive lashed out at analysts during a wide-ranging earnings call, sending the company's stock tumbling as much as 8 percent. | Continue reading
Virtually all of Seattle's new housing has been crammed into the few parts of town where dense housing like apartment towers are legal. The rest of Seattle is made up of pricey single-family homes that have become completely out-of-reach for most people. | Continue reading
Boeing’s P-8 military anti-submarine version of the 737 is built very differently and yet integrated into the regular 737 supply chain. That makes it one of the Pentagon’s most efficient programs. | Continue reading
In response to Seattle’s proposed head tax, Amazon is pausing construction of a new tower and may sublease to tenants a new skyscraper in downtown Seattle. Up to 8,000 fewer jobs could be created in Seattle as a result. | Continue reading
Seattle has become a place that is hostile to the middle class. | Continue reading