Business
STEM summit focuses on ‘grow your own’ skilled workers
Regional firms need more local workers to fill skilled jobs: out-of-staters tend not to relocate.
Business
‘The future of boating’: Everett will be home to Boats Afloat
The annual show is leaving Seattle’s South Lake Union and will call the Port of Everett home.
Business
Area’s largest waterfront hotel debuts with a splash
Most of Hotel Indigo’s 142 rooms overlook Port Gardner and the Port of Everett’s Waterfront Place.
Business
Everett passenger terminal has new investors: public workers
The retirement funds of the Washington State Investment Board now have a stake in Propeller Airports.
Business
EvCC aims to recruit more women for aerospace training programs
The college gets a grant to partner with Boeing and three Snohomish County school districts.
Business
Leadership awards recognize economic, community efforts
Among those honored by Leadership Snohomish County was the Port of Everett’s incoming CEO.
Business
Mentors can help small businesses adapt to demands of growth
When a Lynnwood cleaning company won a new client, it was time to boost the business side of…
Business
Port’s new director looks ahead to ongoing waterfront revival
Lisa Lefeber says she’ll help build “a balanced waterfront” with jobs, Navy operations and recreation.
Local News
This bag is not a toy: Everett residents bring on the sacks
Everett’s plastic bag ban went into effect Monday and savvy shoppers brought their reusable totes.
Local News
Boeing workers give big dollars to support local nonprofits
The Boeing Employees Community Fund gives $500,000 to the YMCA of Snohomish County.
Business
An Everett business park is getting a big new tenant: Amazon
The company will open a new distribution center at the Port of Everett’s Riverside Business Park.
Local News
Spirit of St. Louis replica to make its first public flight
A replica of the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew will take off Sunday from the Arlington airport.
Business
Mill Creek University Book Store set to close in October
The CEO cited “a significant rental increase” as a factor in shuttering the Town Center location.
Business
Career event helps women ‘refresh, inspire, support, empower’
The local YWCA held its first training workshop last month in Edmonds.
Business
Everett Mall Sears to close by December, company says
It opened in 1969, pre-dating the mall. The closure had been rumored and was confirmed on Wednesday.
Business
For a Bothell biotech firm, a new migraine drug is personal
The spouses of three Alder BioPharmaceuticals founders suffer from severe, chronic headaches.
Business
It’s Labor Day, and unemployment here is at a 20-year low
Snohomish County’s jobless rate hasn’t been this low since 1999. And that’s good for job-seekers.
Business
On this noisy factory floor, deaf workers fit right in
Employees at Valence in Everett are learning sign language from their deaf co-workers.
Business
Ink on paper still rules at a 50-year Everett blueprint shop
“We’re not seeing guys in the field swinging a hammer and holding an iPad,” says the owner of…
Business
Century-old Port of Everett names its first female CEO
Lisa Lefeber, now deputy executive director, will assume the top leadership post Oct. 16.