The three glass-and-steel spheres Amazon.com has proposed as the “heart” of its high-rise complex in Seattle’s Denny Triangle drew mixed reviews Tuesday.

We’d never turn our education system over to one church to run. Why are we doing it with health care?

A number of Catholic schools in Western Washington are embracing educational innovations in an attempt to update their curriculum and to better compete with the charter schools that will open here in the next few years.

Five-year-old Pasteria Lucchese specializes in handmade pastas plus a short roster of sauces and sweets found year-round at the Ballard Sunday Farmers Market and at other local seasonal markets.

The University of Washington is growing its presence in the world of online course offerings by joining with edX, a course platform pioneered by Harvard and MIT.

Frustrated with poor customer service, a Seattle woman who is deaf founded deafReview, a Yelp-like review site for deaf, deaf-blind and hard-of-hearing individuals to rate businesses.

Kemper Development wants to build 2 million square feet of additional retail, office, hotel and residential space covering more than a block of prime real estate at Northeast Fourth Street and Bellevue Way Northeast.

In the latest affiliation between secular and religious health-care systems, UW Medicine and PeaceHealth, a Catholic health-care system, announced Monday they plan to create a “strategic affiliation,” with details to be worked out over the summer.

The North Seattle congregation has had several names in its 90 years of existence, which it celebrated Sunday. But now it has taken a name that leaves out “church,” doesn’t meet in such a building and devotes itself to feeding others.

New analyses of Washington’s many shallow seismic faults show the potential for extensive damage and loss of life across the state.

For the first time, there are more poor people living in American suburbs than in the nation’s big cities, according to new findings by the Brookings Institution. South King County is particularly “eye-opening,” the researchers say.

A new law will allow 18- to 20-year-olds to taste wine if they’re enrolled in a community college wine program — just as long as they sip, then spit.

An unapologetic advocate of sex between animals and humans was warned by a judge on Friday that he’s flirting with violating the conditions of his release by having others post comments on the Internet for him.

A complete list of this summer’s concerts.

Redmond Republican Andy Hill, the state Senate’s chief budget writer, learned a hard-won lesson when advanced lung cancer threatened his life four years ago. “The illness taught me not to sweat the small stuff,” he said.

Such a sentiment in mid-May is probably just as premature as the pessimism of late April. But certainly there is now a road map to respectability that provides some hope of sustainability, particularly with the potential for reinforcements in the second half, via the minor leagues and the trade market.

Eastside real-estate brokers say they’ve noticed a wave of affluent mainland-Chinese buyers for luxury homes in Medina, Clyde Hill and other millionaire rows in West Bellevue. Data and public records show they’re right. It’s part of a cash-buyer phenomenon sweeping the home market.

‘Gems of Our Washington State Parks’ series profiles a park with history, artifacts and eye-popping scenery in the Columbia River Gorge.

The old neighborhood under the Aurora Bridge has undergone dramatic change, but retains much of the quirky character that has made it such a magnet over the years.

When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow Lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home.