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Those options weren’t what voters approved — and would be like “butchering” the plan, the Snohomish County executive said. By Ben Watanabe Thursday, September 29, 2022 1:30am LOCAL NEWS EVERETT TRANSPORTATION EVERETT — Some Snohomish County leaders rejected calls to study Highway 99 and I-5 light rail options that would skip the Boeing and Paine Field

Sep. 27, 2022 at 8:47 am Updated Sep. 30, 2022 at 10:37 am 1 of 10 | The all-electric airplane called Alice, designed and built in Arlington, takes off on its first flight Tuesday morning in Moses Lake. It landed safely eight minutes later. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times) By Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace

By Shea Johnson Updated September 26, 2022 10:09 AM Two rural expanses of land in Pierce County are among three so-called “greenfield” sites still under consideration for a new airport after a state Legislature-created group on Friday narrowed down options for where it will recommend establishing flight operations to accommodate growing passenger and cargo traffic

The two Skagit County sites being considered for a new commercial airport were taken off the state Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission’s list Friday. The commission had been looking into 10 possible sites for a new airport. The sites on the list are what are called greenfield sites — undeveloped, commonly agricultural land that is sought

Battery-powered planes are gaining traction with airlines and some are slated to be in the air by 2028. But big hurdles remain. By Pranshu Verma September 21, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT A graphic image of Heart Aerospace’s ES-30, a battery powered plane that United Airlines, Mesa Airlines and Air Canada have purchased. (Heart Aerospace) For

Photo from KIRO 7 BY NICOLE JENNINGS KIRO Newsradio Reporter Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is apologizing for the abnormally long security lines last Sunday, which stretched into the Sea-Tac parking garage. The airport says it was a combination of unexpectedly high numbers of end-of-summer travelers, not enough Transportation Security Administration officers to meet the demand, and

Twenty-seven of the 29 security lanes were open during the peak period, which was 8:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. Published: 10:33 PM PDT September 18, 2022  10:06 AM PDT September 19, 2022 SEATAC, Wash. — Security screening lines stretched all the way into the parking garage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday morning. Many travelers say they missed

An empty office floor in the Olympic Tower in downtown Seattle, September of 2020. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times) by Gene Balk Seattle Times columnist Driving is no longer the dominant way Seattle residents get to work — and all it took was a pandemic. Census data released Thursday shows from 2019-2021, the number of Seattle

Employees think they’re being just as productive as ever. Bosses aren’t buying it. New data from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, which surveyed 20,000 employees across 11 countries, finds that despite early signs of a productivity boom during the pandemic—when many workers traded commuting time for more hours of working from home—there’s a steep divide between how