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Will cars someday run on cardboard? How about sawdust? Weyerhaeuser and Chevron have formed a joint...
Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation...
A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in...
The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate...
Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a...
Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of...
Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a...
The best way to make money on the Internet may be to give it away, a leading thinker on the online...
Will cars someday run on cardboard? How about sawdust? Weyerhaeuser and Chevron have formed a joint venture to convert cellulose and lignin -- two basic compounds found in plants -- into biofuels. Much early biofuel research has...
Rural communities around the state often balk at supporting Seattle-centric transportation projects. One big one might be a windfall for Grays Harbor County, however. The $4.4 billion project to replace the State Route 520...
A new biotechnology company being launched out of Accelerator Corp., a business incubator in Seattle, is seeking to commercialize technology developed at Washington State University. Commercializing university research is not...
The nonprofit Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched a new major project to accelerate brain and spinal cord research and help scientists worldwide gain new insight into numerous diseases and disorders.
The Seattle-based...
Thinking you can put a fire under your employees by threatening to can 'em? Can layoffs create a leaner, meaner organization that reacts faster to change? A new Washington State University study suggests that while Donald Trump's...
Alex Alben is named vice president of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze is named vice president of sales and business development for Seattlebased Pluggd.L & L Financial Holdings Inc., Seattle, names Gene M. Bennett...
Seattle developer Bruce Blume, founder, chairman and CEO of The Blume Co., is spearheading a project inspired by the ideas of urban-planning critic and activist Jane Jacobs. Yale Campus, in Seattle's South Lake Union...
The best way to make money on the Internet may be to give it away, a leading thinker on the online economy says.
"Every business, one way or another, is going to have to compete with free," says Chris Anderson, the editor of...
Dwight Babcock is appointed interim CEO and chairman for IsoRay Inc., Richland, following the resignation of Roger Girard.Sachin Chawla, vice president of product development at GoldenGate Software, is named chairman at...
Boeing failure to deliver on recent defense contracts was a key reason the Air Force didn't pick it to fill a $40 billion contract for refueling tankers. Lexington Institute analyst Loren Thompson says the decision "was not a...
Microsoft just loves Seattle as a place to set up new offices. Combined with employees who joined through the Redmond company's acquisition of aQuantive Inc., the company expects to have nearly 1,400 employees in seven locations...
With a resurgent downtown, a four-year University of Washington branch campus, more affordable housing than in Seattle and one of the top seaports in the nation, you'd think all is well in the City of Destiny, T-Town -- Tacoma....
The Tulalip tribes will open their new 12- story, 350-room Tulalip Casino Resort this summer at their Quil Ceda Creek development west of Marysville. The new resort will be Snohomish County's first destination hotel. The resort...
Commuter rail could expand to the east side of Lake Washington under a proposal being considered by Sound Transit. Seattle's Cascadia Center has proposed spending $37 million to upgrade an existing 42-mile rail line between...
Seattle was home to 33 environmentally sustainable buildings in 2007. The city is projected to have more than 100 "green" buildings by 2020, according to Colliers International.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Feb. 7 that CEO Patty Stonesifer would be leaving the organization by the end of the year. Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive, has led the foundation since its inception in...
The Washington Technology Center (WTC), a statewide economic development organization, has awarded $528,978 in funding to eight local technology firms and their two supporting research institutions, the University of Washington...
One element of Bremerton's evolving downtown renaissance is proving problematic -- the new Harborside Marina has been involved in two recent collisions with state ferries attempting to land at the nearby ferry dock.
Washington...
DON'T FORGET NORM DICKS
Bryan Corliss did a fine job in his article "Welcome To Boomerton" in your March 2008 issue. Bremerton (or is it Boomerton?) is experiencing a renaissance that many cities dream of and the article points...
Seattle-based Horizon Air has repainted four of its 70-seat CRJ-700 jets in the school colors of Washington and Oregon's four Pac-10 universities.
The first - in WSU's crimson and gray - rejoined the fleet after being repainted...
PCC Natural Markets, the Seattlebased grocery co-op, plans to open its ninth store, in Edmonds, by the end of June, coming as a flurry of much larger U.S. grocery and retail chains aggressively move into its market:...
By March 2009, the Bavarian-themed village Leavenworth hopes to open a passenger train station to further boost tourism and to enable visitors from western Washington to avoid driving through the Cascades.
The train stop,...
Yakima is poised for a major resurgence, boosters say. The city recorded more than $100 million in new construction in 2007 ? a record ? as developers poured new money into a number of downtown projects.
It's a sharp turnaround...
