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The City of Tacoma says it won’t put a properly submitted initiative to a vote of the people, and that courts can’t make them do it.

Roughly 2½ years after Washington’s pay transparency law took effect, lawmakers, state courts, employers and job seekers are still trying to make sense of it.

Coffee purveyors say they're contending with stumbling blocks and trying to avoid passing costs to weary customers.

Amazon and Microsoft remade the Seattle area. Now its economy is feeling the pain of the industry’s pullback.

It’s a victory for Katie Wilson, the leading candidate, and a sign that previously cautious organizations in the labor world ...