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Every year, tens of millions of tourists visit Seattle’s Pike Place Market, the Elliot Bay waterfront, and sports stadiums.  

That tourism industry is growing -- this year, a record number of cruise …

Thrifting has long been a favorite pastime of Seattleites, so much so that we have the biggest Goodwill store in the world.  

But buying second-hand is also an economic survival strategy for people w…

It's music festival season. Seattle's own Bumbershoot is just days away. But music festivals across the country are on shaky financial ground, and their futures could be in trouble.

Over the past few…

For decades, owning a home was considered a golden ticket to economic security.

The reality looks a lot different today -- the median price of a single-family home in Seattle is around $1 million, an…

Millions of people are asking tools like ChatGPT questions every day. But your questions don’t just fly up into the ether. They go to a real place. 

AI has a backend, and it looks like massive data c…

It's been almost 25 years since the Nisqually earthquake, the last "big one" to hit Seattle. 

But the region is due for an even bigger one -- one that could be more massive than the underwater quake …

Bellevue, Washington – Seattle's neighbor to the East - is having a bit of an identity crisis. For decades it’s been the younger sibling... trying to get out from under Seattle’s shadow.

But now, Bel…

Microsoft is spending $4 billion dollars on workshops, technology, and other initiatives to get artificial intelligence into the hands of millions of people around the world.

The company pioneering t…

For nearly a century, Washington’s timber industry produced everything from paper to 2x4s to the massive wood beams that hold up the Tacoma dome. But the industry’s been on a long decline since the 1…

Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs leaves even more tech workers in Washington without a job – and with a new worldview called "cruel optimism."

Just a few years ago, a job in tech was considered a …

Mayor Bruce Harrell has a big to do list. He’s got to fix bridges, build housing, and spruce the place up for the World Cup next year.  But to make all this happen, he needs federal dollars... money …

Seattle is one of the wealthiest and most expensive cities in the U.S. One out of every fourteen Seattleites is a millionaire.  By some estimates, costs in Seattle have risen more than 20% in just a …

Washington state is known for its cherries. We produce more sweet cherries than any other state in the country, and we export them all over the world.

But to supply the world with cherries, Washingto…

After years of heated arguments, Seattle just passed a law allowing up to four houses per residential lot -- and six, in some cases.  

The hope is that building a lot more homes will keep prices fro…

Bartell Drugs is a Pacific Northwest icon. But its corporate owner, Rite Aid, is going belly-up — and that’s put the future of Bartell’s in jeopardy.  

On today's episode, staying alive is not just a…

It's graduation season. When today’s grads started college four years ago, an entry-level job in tech was a sure bet. Now, it's anything but. And it's not just tech. Internship openings across the co…

A lot of people have been wondering if the Port of Seattle is dead. Spoiler alert: the ports haven’t been knocked out by the trade war, but they definitely have whiplash. 

The extreme tariffs that th…

In Seattle's Central District, the number of Black homeowners has reached a historic low. And across Seattle, less than half as many Black households own homes as white families. But there's a new la…

If you've got tariff whiplash, you're not alone. 

The Trump administration's on-again, off-again tariffs are meant to protect domestic businesses and bring industry back to the US. So tariffs should …

When it comes to the white-collar workforce, alarm bells are starting to go off. The tech industry is seeing widespread layoffs, and a lot of those laid off workers are struggling to find new gigs. S…