The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — The cooling housing market is driving yet another round of layoffs at a Seattle-based company. The online real estate brokerage Redfin plans to lay off 862 employees nationwide and shut down its house-flipping business, RedfinNow, the company…

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was workmanlike. Maybe at times not all that exciting. And, for an instant, even a little anxiety-inducing. But when it was over, the Seahawks had one of the most satisfying wins they’ve had in years here Sunday, a 31-21 victory ov…

PITTSBURGH — There was a sense heading into this Saturday night clash with a slumping, ailing foe that the Kraken had an opportunity to chart a course well beyond that of a .500 team. After all, they’d captured three straight and were looking to sweep …

Pressured by economic uncertainty, Amazon is freezing hiring for its corporate workforce “for the next few months,” the company announced Thursday. The news comes after weeks of Amazon hinting it will slow growth and slim down experimental ventures and…

ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were moments before the surging Kraken opened the scoring floodgates here Thursday night when goaltender Martin Jones was the only thing standing between them and a second-period deficit. And then, after second-period goals by M…

SEATTLE — Federal regulators Wednesday ordered seaplanes like the one that crashed off Whidbey Island be inspected for a flaw that likely caused the deadly September crash. The Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive mandates that opera…

INDEX, Wash. — Six years have passed since Bruce Albert witnessed the sudden, inexplicable death of a dozen Western red cedars on his property. The trees fell victim to a nameless culprit in the span of a single summer, showing no signs of a killer pes…

SEATTLE — Jordan Eberle was not to be denied. The Seattle Kraken alternate captain had said he wanted a goal for his one-day-old son, Deacon. His first crack at it turned into an assist, and the goal didn’t hold up to review. Jaden Schwartz dove after …

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state Democratic lawmakers revealed details Friday about a push to enact a “shield law” that would protect abortion patients and providers from out-of-state legal action, and announced two more bills in the work…

Just ahead of reporting its third-quarter earnings, Seattle-based Zillow has laid off 300 workers. In a statement Wednesday, the real estate company described the cuts as part of its “normal business process” and did not attribute them to the rapidly c…