Bellevue

Seattle is well known for its thrifting scene - so much so, that Seattle-born artist Macklemore (Benjamin Hammond Haggerty) minted "Thrift Shop" as Best Rap Song during the 2014 G…

Fireworks, grilled food, baseball, and lakefront leisure. No other holiday encapsulates summer quite like 4th of July weekend in Bellevue - the largest Fourth of July celebration …

Home to the #1 cruise homeport on the U.S. West Coast, the Port of Seattle is celebrating the largest season in history this year. With 330 vessel calls and 2.1 million revenue pa…

The Boeing 777X is a next-generation twin-engine jet designed for long-distance international travel. It improves fuel efficiency and reduces emissions, while also being the large…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was running for a fifth term when he passed away over the weekend, began a tumultuous new chapter in South Carolina p…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday it ended its latest wave of strikes targeting Iran, insisting that Tehran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. T…

Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a “bri…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he had finally had enough of the man who was championed by the mob that stormed the pillar of Am…

Hosts discuss Clyde Hill's financial struggles amid WA's property tax limits and their impact on the town's budget crisis.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up Sunday from widespread damage caused by a line of severe, short thunders…

Optimism comes from those with the most to gain, in the rising economies and inside the labs; doubts rise from those with the most to lose or the most to fear. Read More

On this week's show, we're on the GeekWire deck for our annual founder open house, where we dig into Microsoft's latest round of layoffs — including a major Xbox shakeup — and the…

British Columbia-based General Fusion on Friday completed its deal to become the first publicly traded fusion stock. The 24-year-old company… Read More

HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar argues that convenience-driven apps and AI are pushing us toward the dystopia depicted in Pixar's 2008 film, and makes the case for regulation an…

Seattle-area startup says its technology could be used for orbital tracking and communication as well as for beamed power. Read More

Microsoft’s annual sustainability report shows a 25% emissions jump fueled by AI energy demands, testing its 2030 climate goal to become carbon negative. But its chief sustainabil…

Past exec at Amazon, Microsoft and Google is now Dropbox's first CPO; T-Mobile appoints a new C-suite leader and promotes another; and Xbox VP Kevin LaChapelle is laid off in Micr…

Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, salmonberries, huckleberries and black currants, the “it” berry that spice and seasonings company, McCormick, crowned the 202…

The world's biggest soccer tournament may be coming to the Pacific Northwest, but global influences have long visited and lived in Bellevue, home to global companies and a diverse…

The new 2 Line light rail access connecting Bellevue to Seattle has been a total gamechanger. It took me around 20 minutes to get from the Bellevue Downtown Station to the Interna…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Vermont man who was 17 when he and a friend killed a pair of married Dartmouth College professors 25 years ago is seeking to have his life sentence reduced …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will return to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairm…

A video that went viral over the weekend captured a bull bison tossing a Washington resident approximately eight feet into the air at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

Lindsey Graham, the garrulous son of South Carolina pool hall owners, rose to become a fixture on the global stage and one of the most prominent advocates of American military mig…

Kathy Allen, a political strategist, discusses how transgressions now impact campaigns differently than in the pas

Explore the debate between data centers and supportive housing in WA, as Federal Way enacts a moratorium for further evaluation.

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of July 5, 2026. Read More

A look at the science behind Elon Musk's goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming the planet to make it habitable would take centuries,…

"You don't have to do what the numbers say," Mike Macdonald said, adding that variables such as how a game is going, the feel for your own team, and gut instinct can all cancel ou…

Commentary: The last couple of weeks have served as a capstone to what’s become a bad few years for the international video game industry. Now it appears the larger sector is head…

Echodyne is opening an 86,350-square-foot manufacturing and operations hub in nearby Woodinville, Wash., that it says will eventually be able to produce more than 2,500 radars eac…

Former Amazon executive Dave Clark's supply chain startup has raised $50 million in new funding, bringing its total to $150 million, as it builds a customer base that includes Met…

Dane Renkert is co-founder and CEO of the Bellingham, Wash.-based startup that's building an app that tracks scores by voice alone, settles betting games automatically, and never …

Golfing in greater Puget Sound is as varied as the landscape itself, with courses that tuck into the alpine forests, wind through the lowlands and spread above Puget Sound. The be…

Summer in Bellevue is so glorious that locals prefer traveling at other times of the year, and stick around for June, July, and August’s long sunny days. When my granddaughters, 1…

In the beautiful state of Washington, there's an air of intention that is deeply engrained in stewardship and built into how the region grows, governs, and shows up for itself. Ac…

MIAMI (AP) — The last prisoner strapped to a table in Florida’s death chamber was 74 years old — the oldest the state has executed in modern times. The next two set to die are old…

BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices jumped and Asian shares were mostly lower Monday after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated. The price of Brent crude, the international s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounti…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oi…

Explore the disparity in penalties for wage theft in Washington and its impact on workers in taxpayer-funded projects.

The governing body for sailing is looking at how the sport’s Olympic-class equipment is made, used and discarded, to eventually make changes that will reduce its environmental imp…

He's obsessive about talent, fiercely loyal to the leaders he picks, and relentless when told no. Here's what Vinod Khosla's four decades in tech and investing tell us about how t…

For the second time in the past 60 days, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that takes direct aim at the state’s political …

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was named to co-lead a Federal Reserve task force on jobs and productivity — three days after announcing 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft's gaming division. Th…

A federal court has turned down the Federal Trade Commission's request to declare a rentals deal between Zillow and Redfin "presumptively unlawful" before trial next month. Read M…

Washington climbed three spots to No. 11 in CNBC's annual America's Top States for Business rankings, up from No. 14 last year, suggesting that many of the state's underlying comp…

T-Mobile's longest-tenured Un-carrier architect is leaving after 28 years, as CEO Srini Gopalan reshapes the carrier's leadership team and brings in a former AT&T executive. Read …