Bundled up against the afternoon chill, Judy Day brightened as she watched her great-grandson, Caleb, bound off a school bus and into her arms.

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South Lake Union wasn't exactly in the development doldrums before Amazon.com's announcement Friday that it will move its corporate headquarters to the neighborhood.

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What started as a small gesture of holiday cheer Wednesday, in 24 hours, grew to involve about 500 coffee drinkers in a chain of giving in Marysville.

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On the brink of an economic boom, Seattle businessmen promoted a streetcar line along Westlake Avenue, where they dreamed the tracks would spark more business and home construction. The year was 1890.

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It's tough living in a region famous for its rain.

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Efforts will resume today to rescue people from flood-stricken homes in Southwest Washington after Monday's regionwide storm killed two, severed major highways, isolated communities and closed scores of roads and businesses.

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At companies like Boeing, employees enjoy little privacy Within its bowels, The Boeing Co. holds volumes of proprietary information deemed so valuable that the company has entire teams dedicated to making sure that private information stays private.

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Every weekday, the population of a small city migrates from around the region to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond.

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The resounding failure of an AIDS vaccine that was tested with great fanfare in Seattle and around the world has left researchers with plenty of theories — but as far as ever from the long-sought holy grail in the fight against the pandemic.

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Mayors weren't the only people to show up at the U.S. mayors' climate conference in downtown Seattle. Corporate America was a constant presence, drawn by the prospect of capturing business, influencing policy and promoting its environmental image.

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Speaking at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Former President Bill Clinton this afternoon urged a gathering of more than 100 of the nation's mayors to embrace climate change as an economic opportunity, saying that their involvement in fighting global warming is crucial to show the rest o …

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Blinded and disfigured in 2005 by sectarian violence in Iraq, Muhammed "Hamoody" Hussein has found an active, happy life with Snohomish foster parents as he undergoes a series of surgeries.

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Like so many others who found their fortune with Microsoft, Peter Bladin left the company and embarked on a second career to try to make the world a better place.

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When Apple launched the iPhone with AT&T in June, other carriers started scrambling to find something to match it.

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A Seattle federal grand jury is investigating allegations by an aspiring model from Washington who said she was raped, assaulted and threatened by magician David Copperfield at his private island in the Bahamas in July, at least three federal law-enforcement officials have confir …

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Microsoft is launching a Web-based service for organizing events and remembering them afterward -- trying to move further into the highly competitive areas of social networking and online photo sharing. Preview this new Service at:

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Is anyone out there? Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen has once again announced another search into deep space along with scientists from SETI (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).

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The Boeing Co. fired at least one employee Friday for having a conversation with the Seattle P-I in July The company told Nicholas Tides in the past week that he was being investigated and was not allowed to discuss allegations against him with any other Boeing employees

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Climb on board the Microsoft bus On Monday, Microsoft started offering free bus service for employee's that provided free WiFi service and preselected seating on the bus. The buses run between 6:20 and 9:30 a.m., returning from Redmond between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m

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New T-Shirt in Seattle S.L.U.T.

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Vinemeet Seattle: Stage 1, the planning

With all I'm hearing about these other Vinemeets, I'm wondering why the city that Newsvine originated from hasn't had its own. According to our Seattleites group we have 51 members.

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AirTran Airways said yesterday that it plans in May to begin flying five times a week to Seattle from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. It will mark the airport's only nonstop flights to the Northwestern city.

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For years, the 84 Union Building off Western Avenue was "Seattle's Ellis Island," where many immigrants made their first stop in Seattle.

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Air France will start daily non-stop service from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Paris this summer with a new flight into Charles de Gaulle Airport starting June 11.

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The 21-acre Renton site is across from a residential and entertainment development known as "The Landing" near the south end of Lake Washington.

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