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Chipotle closes 43 stores in Seattle and Oregon over an E. coli scare
SEATTLE (AP) -- An investigation was underway Saturday in an E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle restaurants in Washington state and Oregon, health officials said.Three people in the Portland area and...
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A massive storm in Washington that toppled trees and triggered mudslides...
SEATTLE — At least three people were killed and about 250,000 homes and businesses were without power in Washington state on Wednesday after a storm blew down trees and triggered mudslides, authorities...
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Uber cars in Seattle will have a bright color-coded light to let you know...
In Seattle, Uber is testing a new color-coding system to make sure you know exactly which car is yours, according to a blog post.How does it work? Glad you asked.When Seattleites hail a ride with...
View ArticleI visited Amazon's first retail store, and one thing was especially annoying
In November, Amazon opened its first brick and mortar location, Amazon Books, in Seattle's upscale University Village mall.The store not only sells books, but also sells Amazon devices such as the...
View ArticleThis 73-year-old man had never gotten a ticket — until he was pulled over and...
This 73-year-old man was pulled over in Seattle for not having his headlights on. He had never gotten as much as a ticket before, and was about to get away with just a warning.However, as Seattle...
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The Seattle City Council defied the mayor to let Uber drivers unionize, and...
Seattle made history as the first city to pass any legislation on Uber drivers unionizing, but Mayor Ed Murray isn't having it.The Seattle mayor sent the City Council a letter urging it to seriously...
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High schools are listening to scientists and starting later in the day
More school districts around the U.S. are heeding the advice of scientists who have long said that expecting teens to show up to class before 8 a.m. isn't good for their health or their report...
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These 10 cities have the fastest-growing startup scenes — and neither New...
The conventional wisdom is that Silicon Valley is the only great place to found a tech startup. It's got great engineers, a huge network of financiers and advisers, and pleasant weather all year.But...
View ArticleAmazon will open over 300 brick-and-mortar bookstores — we visited the first one
In November, Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar location, Amazon Books, in Seattle's upscale University Village mall. While originally dismissed as a gimmick, it must've done well: Amazon now...
View ArticleHow Marshawn Lynch — who hasn't spent a penny of his NFL salary — makes and...
Marshawn Lynch doesn't spend his NFL salary; he lives off of his endorsement deals. Despite recently announcing his retirement from the NFL, his endorsement deals from Skittles, Nike, Activision,...
View ArticleHere's how much time you waste sitting in traffic a year
Traffic data company Inrix put together a list of the top traffic congested cities. Produced by Jacqui FrankFollow BI Video: On Twitter Join the conversation about this story »
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No wonder every big Silicon Valley tech company is opening offices in Seattle
The high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Silicon Valley, has been the subject of a lot of conversation. Everybody agrees that we need more housing, but nobody can seem to...
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This crazy tiny home is only 4 feet wide and costs $499,000 — take a look inside
Nearly a century before tiny homes were trendy, an ultra-slender duplex appeared in Seattle.From the front, the mustard-colored home looks like a relatively normal house — it's about 56 feet long. But...
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25 beautiful US cities to live in if you love spending time outdoors
It's too often assumed that moving to a big city — like San Francisco, New York, or Boston — means giving up your love for nature. Fortunately, that doesn't always have to be the case.A recent ranking...
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This 22-year-old intern just spent 40 days living in his car — here's how he...
When Levi Joseph scored a manufacturing internship in Seattle for his last summer before graduating college, he waited a little too long to scope out a place to stay."I was kind of foolish — I didn't...
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The hotel cycle is headed downward
The end of strong growth in U.S. hotels’ revenue and occupancy rates could hurt loan performance for commercial mortgage backed securities as interest rates rise, Fitch Ratings reported on Monday.And...
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We checked out the massive glass spheres that Amazon is building in the heart...
Amazon is growing out of control.Unable to be constrained by its existing offices in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, Amazon is expanding operations to three new skyscrapers a few minutes' walk...
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I shopped at Amazon's first real-life bookstore ever and it was freaking awesome
Last November, Amazon opened the doors of Amazon Books— its first physical, real-life bookstore — right on its home turf of Seattle.While I was in town this week, I made sure to stop by Amazon Books to...
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Cascade Mall shooting suspect tried to buy a handgun just before fatally...
SEATTLE (AP) — Detectives have confirmed that the man accused of shooting and killing five people in a mall north of Seattle tried unsuccessfully to buy a handgun just hours before the slayings.Arcan...
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China's richest people plan to invest in housing abroad — three US cities are...
More than 60 per cent of China’s richest people plan to invest in properties abroad in the next three years, with three American cities – Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle – topping their list of...
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