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Seattle-area Urban League hires city problem-solver as CEO

Pamela Banks, the newly selected CEO for the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, is currently a program manager for the city's Department of Neighborhoods and in 30 years as a city employee has worked under five mayors. »

Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface. »

Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

The huge engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have been in the Atlantic for more than four decades. »

Berry blues: Fungus hits blueberry growers

What Bill and Anita Cook should have been doing once the weather cleared last Wednesday was pruning their 60-year-old Atlantic, Jersey, Dixie and Stanley blueberry bushes - snipping away at older, weaker limbs crowding out the stronger ones as they pre... »

Urban League sells building for $2.7M; will pay debts, hire CEO

Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle sold its three-story, 101-year-old headquarters to Retail Lockbox owner Craig Dawson for $2.7 million. »

Paving the way for youth's success

Atlantic Street Center's youth-development program, supported by The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy, offers academic support and leadership training for disadvantaged kids in Seattle's NewHolly neighborhood. »

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