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Bill Radke talks to KUOW Reporter Carolyn Adolph about the meeting between local businesses and the city of Seattle this afternoon, to discuss the stalled…

The bloom is off the boom.That’s the message Ben Noble, director of the city’s budget office, gave Seattle City Council’s finance committee on April 30,…

Around Seattle, you might think more workers are getting hurt given that construction is booming.Turns out, the opposite is true.Construction worker…

Let's say you owe me $20.You decide that to pay me back, you'll set up a lemonade stand. There's about $50 in overhead: lemons, sugar. And don't forget…

The Seattle area needs more housing.There’s not enough construction workers to build all the houses we need.Meanwhile, ex-prisoners have a hard time…

Construction on the first phase of the Space Needle's Century Project will be complete in May of 2018. When the project is done, the 55-year-old landmark…

The downtown Seattle tunnel that will replace the Alaskan Way viaduct is edging closer to completion.The upper level of the double-decker highway is about…

Yellow and orange cranes loom over Seattle’s landscape like an army of gentle dinosaurs. There are so many of them here that listener Ben Lang had this…

The last recession is long gone, but jobs still haven’t recovered in two major sectors. Both are tied to that last big bust: construction and financial…

Mark Adreon’s guide dog is a yellow Lab named Trek."As in Star Trek,” Adreon said. “Trek and I have been working together since Sept. 1st."Adreon is…