June 18, 2013

Competition among taxis, for-hire cabs and ride-sharing services became more tense at Seattle City Hall on Monday as the City Council reconsidered how to regulate them all.

In the third-largest forestry acquisition in North American history, timber giant Weyerhaeuser Co. will acquire Longview Timber and its 645,000 acres of timberland holdings in Oregon and Washington for $2.65 billion.

The Obama administration is considering a sweeping initiative to address climate change, including the first-ever limits on carbon dioxide from power plants, the country’s biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

A new study has found that blacks, Latinos and Asians looking for homes were shown fewer housing options than whites who were equally qualified. And fewer options meant higher housing costs.

This summer, the 9th Circuit Court in California is weighing the question of whether companies have the right to take preemptive legal action against peaceful protesters for hypothetical future protests.

A new Victoria venture, PlasticShore, wants to transform the problem of marine plastic into a resource for use in consumer products.

Once again the rescue goats of Rent a Ruminant are hitting the slopes under the Seattle viaduct at Lenora and Pine, munching away the weeds by order of the city’s Department of Transportation.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health released a report yesterday concluding that diesel, mercury, lead, manganese and methylene chloride in the air significantly increased the risk of having a child with autism.

Is it actually less expensive to stay at an Airbnb than a hotel?

The New York Times is collecting riders’ shared wisdom about biking where they live.

Washington State University entomologists are preserving semen extracted from the industrious insects that pollinate much of the nation’s food supply but face environmental threats.

An energy and shipping company has developed an online video game to help attract young people to jobs in the oil and gas industry.

When it comes to American Latinos and climate change, the numbers are stacking up in a couple of ways.

If the US shale experience is supposed to forecast the world, then the evidence so far suggests a boomlet followed by frantic efforts just to keep production level.

For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.