Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ suck up electricity, stress power grids in...
Bargain electric rates are attracting digital currency entrepreneurs, but three public utilities districts are reassessing how they deal with the surging demand, and whether they should even try to...
View ArticleDiana Rhea, Boeing’s longest-serving employee and an early female manager,...
Diana Rhea loved working and loved Boeing. She combined those loves for 75 years, starting in 1942 as a 20-year-old clerk-typist and retiring last year at 95. Ms. Rhea died Wednesday at 96.
View ArticleKing County effort to fight homelessness delayed by Seattle head tax
A regional approach to fight homelessness was delayed by Seattle’s business head tax, said King County Executive Dow Constantine.
View ArticleIndie Folk Project Dear Nora Return with Skulls Example, and Perform in...
by Ciara Dolan Last year, Portland singer-songwriter Katy Davidson revived their beloved indie folk project Dear Nora to reissue their 2004 record Mountain Rock. Riding the high from that triumphant...
View ArticleSeattle head tax adds delay to King County effort to fight homelessness, Dow...
A regional approach to fight homelessness was delayed by Seattle’s business head tax, said King County Executive Dow Constantine.
View ArticleAlan Bean, astronaut, moonwalker — and artist — dies
Alan Bean stepped onto the lunar surface preceded by Pete Conrad, the mission commander of their Apollo 12 flight, in November 1969, four months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first...
View ArticleMan stabbed in Capitol Hill melee after bars close
Even the victim of the stabbing on East Pike Street struggled with Seattle police officers, who eventually were able to apply a tourniquet and stop the arterial bleeding.
View ArticleKhalsa Day Celebration in Kent
Thousands of Sikhs and other community members join the Khalsa Day Celebration in Kent and marked the day with sacred hymns, vegetarian food and a parade.
View ArticleMan shot in foot in central Seattle gunfight
Witnesses called 911 on Saturday afternoon to report two men shooting at each other near 14th Avenue South and South Jackson Street.
View ArticlePort of Olympia says GoFundMe campaign was a mistake
Harbor Director Bruce Marshall said one of the Harbor Patrol volunteers created the GoFundMe campaign. A port spokeswoman said the port learned about it Wednesday.
View ArticleCoal industry praises Northam decision to sign tax credit
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Southwest Virginia lawmakers and coal industry representatives see hope for economic development in Gov. Ralph Northam’s decision to sign a bill reinstating a pared-down tax credit...
View ArticleBattling Scotch broom along Olympic’s Hoh River that threatens fish, forests
Invasive Scotch broom is disrupting natural forest succession and ruining prime salmon habitat as its yellow scourge spreads along the Hoh River and in other Olympic Peninsula salmon strongholds.
View Article‘I have found a way to survive’: Haitians resilient amid struggles, 8 years...
The Trump administration says “extraordinary conditions” caused by the 2008 quake “no longer exist.” Yet Haiti still has a severe housing shortage as nearly 60 percent of people live on under $2.42 a...
View ArticleMore women take aim at glass ceiling in campaigns for Washington Legislature
More women are running for the Washington state Legislature this year — than possibly ever. But after breaking records for female representation a couple of decades ago, women have struggled to break...
View ArticlePark Service: Rising sea levels threaten some Georgia parks
ATLANTA (AP) — A new study by the National Park Service found that rising sea levels threaten some national park land in Georgia. Among them: Cumberland Island off the Georgia coast, a fort near...
View ArticleBesides lava and ash, Hawaii volcano is pumping out ‘vog’
HONOLULU (AP) — Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has had it all over the past three weeks: molten rock shooting toward the sky, lava oozing from the ground and ash clouds rising miles into the...
View ArticleTrump is telling those who fled Haiti earthquake to leave the U.S. What will...
The Trump administration says “extraordinary conditions” caused by the 2010 quake “no longer exist.” Yet Haiti still has a severe housing shortage as nearly 60 percent of people live on under $2.42 a...
View ArticleBesides lava and ash, Hawaii volcano is pumping out ‘vog’ — volcanic smog
Volcanic smog can affect areas far from the volcano, and "Everyone is having symptoms now on some level," says an emergency room physician. But vog does intensify the colors of the sunset.
View ArticleWoman critically hurt, man missing after plane crash off Bainbridge
A woman was taken to the hospital, while crews searched the water for hours for a man who was also on board.
View ArticlePride ASIA celebrated at Hing Hay Park
The event focuses on celebrating pride and creating a safe space for queer Asian/Pacific Islander Americans.
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