Four years after establishing a second headquarters in Seattle, healthcare technology company Accolade is betting big on the city once more with plans to double its staff and open new… Read More
Getting together with family during the holidays — especially with members who visit from across the country — is a great time to assess all that has changed. Grandkids get… Read More
Driving around Seattle, you might’ve noticed an uptick in Texas license plates. That’s what prompted us to look at drivers license data and find out which states the region is… Read More
This week on TLDR, we’re looking back at some of the top stories of 2018 so far. Today’s topic: Tech companies and workers are changing changes in cities around the… Read More
“Seattle’s losing a part of its soul.” That’s how Wyking Garrett sees it. He is a third-generation resident of the city’s historically black Central District and he discussed how his… Read More
A movie theater in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was the setting for a dramatic production on Wednesday evening, complete with laughs, cheers and even a surprise ending. Whether the protagonist… Read More
The number of people working for Amazon continues to go way, way up as the Seattle-based tech giant reached 566,000 employees worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2017 — an… Read More
Taking in the Seattle skyline is a favorite pastime for many residents and visitors to the city, thanks in large part to the unique vantage points located in various neighborhoods.… Read More
The Space Needle is clearly the most iconic building in Seattle’s skyline, and the 56-year-old structure is currently undergoing a $100-million renovation of its top house. But thanks to a… Read More
Here’s the 4-minute video you’ve been waiting for to illustrate why a 4-mile drive in Seattle takes 45 minutes. Ricardo Martin Brualla, a VR/AR engineer at Google in Seattle, and… Read More
Crisscrossing the streets of the Denny Triangle and South Lake Union neighborhoods during lunch hour on Thursday, Amazon employees faced dozens of choices between restaurants, cafes, bars, food trucks and… Read More
Tap the brakes for a second, North America. Let that sea of red tail lights on the roadways around Seattle serve as a warning from those of us who have… Read More
A week or so ago, before Seattle decided to play summer for a few days, I grilled dinner in a torrential downpour, and it felt … normal. There was no… Read More
Renters in Seattle already struggling with increases that are making the city unaffordable will need an income boost next year that is the biggest in the country to keep up… Read More
Between the thousands of jobs Amazon adds each year and its insatiable appetite for office space in Seattle’s urban core, the company has come to symbolize the city’s radical and rapid growth and transformation.… Read More
Tech workers drawn to Seattle by what seems like endless opportunity these days can sometimes bear the burden of being blamed for the problems the city is grappling with as… Read More
Seattle’s tech scene has long had a reputation as the less mature little sister of Silicon Valley. But the Valley’s popularity may be its undoing as people increasingly see the… Read More
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray believes the city needs to double its spending on homelessness and he’s calling on the region’s business community to make that vision a reality. Initially, Murray hoped… Read More
Emotions ran high this week at a meeting of the Seattle City Council Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Committee as concerned citizens voiced their opinions on a plan to rezone… Read More
The year 2016 was the first in which cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments, with cloud revenue for the four quarters ended Sept. 30 growing 25 percent… Read More
For the second straight month, Seattle home prices grew faster than any other major metro region in the country. That’s according to data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Index,… Read More
To Mayor Murray and Director Chris Gregorich, of Seattle’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations: Since 1957, our city has built sister city relationships with international communities around the world with the… Read More
We knew it was too good to be true almost instantly. The crinkled red paper, the low-resolution type, and the Amazon logo all reeked more of an ambiguous protest statement… Read More
John Blackledge, a Cowen and Company analyst, estimates half of the households in the U.S. could have Amazon Prime by the end of the year — unless they already do.… Read More
Proposed land use signs are a familiar sight around Seattle. From West Seattle to Ballard and everywhere in between, the large white signs planted in the front yard of an old house or… Read More
Seattle is growing at an unprecedented rate, with the Puget Sound region adding an average of roughly nine new jobs and seven new people per hour in 2015. Tech is… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon unveiled the first-ever Prime freighter plane this week: Amazon One, a re-purposed Boeing 767 jet that was once a passenger aircraft. PODCAST SPONSORS It is… Read More
Seattle and its surrounding counties added 86,320 new residents between April 2015 and 2016, marking the region’s biggest population gain this century, fueled in large part by the region’s technology… Read More
On Monday I noticed this article in my feed and was sucked in by the very first line: “Among the credible candidates to be the economic capital of the 21st century,… Read More
Amazon employees made their way into the company’s new Doppler office tower near downtown Seattle for the first time on Monday morning, free T-shirts in hand and blue name badges swinging… Read More