Category: Economy
Even after several years of Seattle’s construction boom, the situation is not likely to subside anytime soon. As per a twice-yearly report released Tuesday by the Downtown Seattle Association, there are 66 major projects underway now in the central part of the city, from South Lake Union to Sodo, up from 65 six months prior. […]
Making money and possessing wealth is two different things. A lot of people might not have given much thought into it, but the marketing-analytics firm Acxiom has some idea about wealth. The firm uses a variety of public records and private sources to predict a household’s net worth. As per their data, Seattle is one […]
An Oak Harbor resident has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court stating her well was contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foam used at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. As per the lawsuit, accusation lies on five companies in the manufacture, marketing, sales and delivery of the firefighting foam of knowingly putting the water — […]
A King County jury on Thursday awarded $123 million to the victims of the 2015 Ride the Ducks crash that took lives of five people and injured another 60 others. The hearing was done after a four-month civil trial. The jury gave the Ride the Ducks International — the Branson, Missouri-based manufacturer of the Duck […]
The Puget Sound region’s cold temperature has taken the life of a 59 years old homeless man. He has been living without an address for a long time, and he breathed his last at the Sodo light-rail station. Derek C. Johnson, the homeless man, was found by a Link light-rail train operator, he saw the […]
A large number of inmates have launched a hunger strike at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Central Washington. The strike started on Friday, and the inmates were mostly protesting about the quality of food served at breakfast, said inmate Michael Linear, who has spent the past seven years in the medium-security prison in Connell, […]
As the issue of housing has never been off the table of debate, Washington lawmakers have now agreed on the problem of housing affordability has come to a head, and they are pushing to diminish evictions, promote density and change condo liability laws that have helped stunt development of cheaper homes. “Quite honestly, we have to […]
As the new Highway 99 is nearing it’s full operational days, Seattle had two waterfront highways full of pedestrians. Thousands of people gathered at downtown Seattle on Saturday, traveling on foot through the new Highway 99 tunnel and taking a last stroll on the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct. The tunnel was open on Monday to […]
After the closure of Alaskan Viaduct, the new Highway 99 is all set to open. And as per reports, it will have multiple safety features like eep tube with a 21-mile network of sprinkler pipes, along with jet fans, surveillance cameras and instant message signs that together depict the world’s newest safety features. Brian Russell, […]
Measles. In the Pacific Northwest has rendered pediatricians to be flooded with calls from families, wanting to know if they could vaccinate their children earlier than the recommended age of one year. Washington has declared a state of emergency over the measles outbreak, occurred primarily among the unvaccinated children. In Clark County, health officials have […]
