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BURLINGTON, Wash. – On a recent morning at Sakuma Brothers Farm, eight Latino workers sat on a bench seat behind a tractor, planting strawberry roots that…

Chubby and Tubby started selling goods out of a metal hut in 1946 in Seattle’s Rainier Valley.Low overhead costs helped the business owners get started.…

Skagit Valley is home to thousands of Mexican immigrants. Many make their livings working as farmhands. They've brought with them some of their traditions…

You probably already know this, but lunch these days is sad. This is especially true when it’s eaten during the workday. Frequently, it’s eaten alone, at…

On Thursday afternoons at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, music lessons are everywhere you look. Woodwinds twittering in the breezeways. Violas plucking…

Jon Osterberg remembers the first time he saw a hydroplane, more than 50 years ago.“I was three, maybe four,” Osterberg recalls, “walking by the…

Malls are facing trouble everywhere. But Totem Lake Mall in Kirkland is in a category of its own. It’s a zombie: an undead mall with just a few remaining…

Central District business owners will get a chance to tell city officials about the problems on 23rd Avenue on Tuesday. They say a big road project there…

In Oregon, the state tax system puts the burden more on the rich than the poor.Washington state is the opposite: Part-time workers pay up to 24 percent of…

Voters in Pierce and Thurston counties are about to cast their first general election ballots in Washington’s new 10th Congressional District. Government…