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Business Brief: On travel, elbows could be higher

Business Brief: On travel, elbows could be higher

Good morning and welcome to day 20 (already!) of Summer 2025, a season of raised elbows from coast to coast to coast. Today we’ll look at what the numbers say about the boost to domestic tourism from U.S. travel boycotts, but also the limitations...

Urban League’s Summer University Gives Seattle Teens A Path To Entrepreneurship And Career Success

Urban League’s Summer University Gives Seattle Teens A Path To Entrepreneurship And Career Success

Pictured above are students from the Urban League’s Summer University. By Kiara Doyal, The Seattle Medium The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle’s Summer University is back at Garfield High School this year, offering a free, six-week program...

The Changing Face Of Department Stores In Seattle

The Changing Face Of Department Stores In Seattle

When I was a kid, it was the golden age of the department store in Seattle. It was all about the Bon Marche and Frederick and Nelson along with the immense Sears building near downtown Seattle and then there was Nordstrom originally founded back...

Can the NFL overcome Trump’s anti-Canada rhetoric? The Bills are banking on it

Can the NFL overcome Trump’s anti-Canada rhetoric? The Bills are banking on it

Wayne Kretz always knew what to expect. For nearly a decade, Niagara Sports Trips took buses full of Canadian fans over the U.S. border for Buffalo Bills and Sabres games. The excursions became so popular that Kretz could sell out as many as four...

AtWork Opens Newest Location In Greater Seattle Area

AtWork Opens Newest Location In Greater Seattle Area

By: AtWork Group | 0 Shares 18 Reads July 09, 2025 // Franchising.com // SEATTLE–AtWork® has opened its newest location in Kent, Washington, near Kaibara Park and the Kent Library. This grand opening will mark AtWork’s third location in the state....

Nationwide strike call: Trade Unions take out rally in city

Nationwide strike call: Trade Unions take out rally in city

Mysore/Mysuru: Following the nationwide strike call, various Trade Unions including hundreds of factory workers, staged a protest at Gandhi Square in city this morning. As many as 10 Central Trade Unions, including INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU, AIUTUC,...

Foley’s Coastal Alabama Farmers and Fishermens Market earns spot in Newsweek’s Top 10 Best Farmers Markets

Foley’s Coastal Alabama Farmers and Fishermens Market earns spot in Newsweek’s Top 10 Best Farmers Markets

The Coastal Alabama Farmers and Fishermens Market in Foley has once again drawn national recognition, this time being named one of the Top 10 Best Farmers Markets in the U.S. in Newsweek’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards. The year-round market,...

Should Cubs, White Sox strike a deal before trade deadline?

Should Cubs, White Sox strike a deal before trade deadline?

White Sox starting pitcher Adrian Houser throws home during a game last month against the Texas Rangers. AP Most front offices are taking a break from trade talk to focus on this weekend's MLB Draft. But White Sox general manager Chris Getz is...

Judge, Raleigh trade homers late in Yankees’ rout of Mariners

Judge, Raleigh trade homers late in Yankees’ rout of Mariners

Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh traded late home runs after the outcome was all but decided, with Raleigh's 36th of the season keeping the Seattle catcher two ahead of Judge for the major league lead. Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt each had three...

Yankees change their infield dynamic, power their way to victory against Seattle

Yankees change their infield dynamic, power their way to victory against Seattle

NEW YORK – Tuesday night’s Bronx power show was a solid follow-up to a Subway Series-salvaging win Sunday afternoon. Late in a 10-3 Yankees win against Seattle, the 38,641 fans even caught some of MLB’s home run battle, with the Mariners’ Cal...

Washington state committee distances from drug use work group’s ‘buyers club’ suggestion

Washington state committee distances from drug use work group’s ‘buyers club’ suggestion

By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square Washington’s Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee, or SURSAC, is distancing itself from recent recommendations made by a subset work group that included having the state set up a “buyers club”...

Seattle now faces the highest DoorDash delivery prices in the United States

Seattle now faces the highest DoorDash delivery prices in the United States

SEATTLE — Starting this month, consumers in Seattle will face even more increases on DoorDash service fees for all deliveries due to the city's regulations that raise delivery and operating costs. DoorDash, which reported operating at a loss in...

Washington State ranked 5th in average VA home loan amount in Q1

Washington State ranked 5th in average VA home loan amount in Q1

Tanya Bradshe Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs | https://department.va.gov Tanya Bradshe Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs | https://department.va.gov With $509,531 in home loans issued, Washington State ranked fifth in average loan amount...

Jake Oettinger and Mason Marchment reunite on the golf course days after Marchment's trade left Stars goalie heartbroken

Jake Oettinger and Mason Marchment reunite on the golf course days after Marchment's trade left Stars goalie heartbroken

Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger linked up with his former teammate Mason Marchment at the Hazeltine National Golf Club this week. On Tuesday, Oettinger shared a snap from their day out on his Instagram stories. They were also joined by San...

Evening market returns to Pike Place

SEATTLE — Pike Place Market's weekly evening farmers market, Produce on Pike, starts up again today. Located at the north end of Pike Place Market between Stewart and Virginia streets, this midweek event running is scheduled to run from 3 p.m. to...

Small business optimism index shows slight decline in June

Small business optimism index shows slight decline in June

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released its monthly Small Business Optimism Index, showing a slight decrease in June. The index edged down by 0.2 points to 98.6, which remains slightly above the 51-year average of 98....

CRIME WATCH FOLLOWUP: Suspect arrested after West Seattle bank robbery, accused of other holdups too

CRIME WATCH FOLLOWUP: Suspect arrested after West Seattle bank robbery, accused of other holdups too

We’ve just learned that a suspect is in jail on suspicion of Monday’s West Seattle bank robbery and four other robberies. We requested followup information on the case this morning and when police sent it to us a short time ago, it included the...

Earthquake swarm strikes Mt Rainier in Washington state

Earthquake swarm strikes Mt Rainier in Washington state

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Washington state households can’t afford basics, even if they’re not poor, report says

Washington state households can’t afford basics, even if they’re not poor, report says

Jessica Fu / The Seattle Times (TNS) Over a quarter of households in Washington earn more than the federal poverty threshold but still struggle to afford necessities like housing, child care, transportation and more, according to a recent report...

Seattle woman arrested in Centralia for theft from Coach Outlet, forgery and financial fraud

Seattle woman arrested in Centralia for theft from Coach Outlet, forgery and financial fraud

By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com A 42-year-old Seattle woman was arrested in Centralia Thursday, July 3, and charged Monday in Lewis County Superior Court with unlawful possession of payment instrument, forgery, first-degree criminal...

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