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Irena Kubiliene scans her phone as she enters the new Amazon Go store in the 100 block of South Franklin Street, Sept. 17, 2018 in Chicago.

Chicago area on Amazon’s grocery list: Stores with cashiers planned for Oak Lawn, Schaumburg, Naperville

July 6, 2020 at 4:30 p.m.

Amazon is planning to establish new locations of its conventional checkout grocery stores in Seattle, California, and the Chicago and Washington, D.C., areas. The e-commerce giant is also preparing to...

Airline policies differ a lot on coronavirus safety measures

July 2, 2020 at 1:32 p.m.

Piloting a plane might seem simpler for some passengers than navigating a plethora of differing COVID-19 safety policies implemented by the nation's airlines. While Alaska and Delta have taken the...

Sleater-Kinney perform at The Riviera Theatre in the Uptown neighborhood in support of their latest release, The Center Won't Hold, on Friday, October 18, 2019.

Washington’s concert event of the summer unites music royalty for coronavirus relief

June 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

All the footage had been shot. Filmmaking superduo Jason and Jenny Koenig were deep into production on what looks to be Washington's (virtual) concert event of the summer. The local...

In this Jan. 14, 2019 photo, a patient sits in the living room of her apartment in the Brooklyn borough of New York during a telemedicine video conference with Dr. Deborah Mulligan. Telemedicine often involves diagnosing and treating a new health problem but is also used to keep tabs on an existing, long-term condition.

Telemedicine may be the new normal in a post-coronavirus world. Here’s how it works in six common specialties

June 17, 2020 at 12:46 p.m.

The new coronavirus pandemic has necessitated the embrace of virtual medicine regardless of how ready patients, doctors, nurses and health care systems were for the shift. Now that telehealth has...

Microphone in hand, Hazzauna Underwood leads protesters in chants as they march from Harborview Medical Center to Seattle City Hall plaza on Saturday, June 6, 2020.

Double duty: Health care workers of color fight the twin pandemics of coronavirus and racism

June 10, 2020 at 11:23 a.m.

Before the pepper spray, before the pandemonium and the torched police cars that would light up media reports the next morning, Hazzaunah Underwood was downtown, peacefully protesting — and exhausted....

A worker plows under 240 acres of young potatoes farmed by Mike Pink near Pasco, Washington, on May 1, 2020. Pink has never plowed under any food he has grown.

Too many potatoes: Farmers stuck with tons of spuds as coronavirus cuts french fry demand

May 5, 2020 at 9:59 a.m.

For farmer Mike Pink, spring is supposed to be a time of hope, when he can survey a green field of young potato plants and anticipate the bounty to be...

This feral cat caught in one of Whitney Phillips' traps is one of five she caught Friday, Feb. 14, 2020 in South Seattle. Phillips is part of the Alley Cat Project, which traps feral cats, has them neutered and sometimes returns them to their original sites. She provides them with daily food.

Killers, not cuddlers, Seattle feral cats find new lives as mousers in industrial shops

April 24, 2020 at 12:06 p.m.

SEATTLE — The Craigslist posting said, "Rodents in your warehouse, garage, shop? Mouser cats need a home (Seattle region)." At a 10,000-square-foot hangar under the West Seattle Bridge, the employees...

This image released by Disney/Lucasfilm shows Daisy Ridley as Rey in a scene from "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."

I watched all 9 ‘Star Wars’ movies in a row during coronavirus quarantine. Here’s what I discovered

April 14, 2020 at 9:52 a.m.

A long time ago (late December) in a galaxy far, far away (a Seattle movie theater), I had an idea (a bad one). For the premiere of "Star Wars: The...

It’s easy to overlook good-old red radishes, but new varieties bring new possibilities for spring, like this radish green pesto

April 13, 2020 at 6:02 p.m.

Think of that one thing in your house that has been there so long, you've completely forgotten about it. Maybe it's a medal you got from running your first 5K,...

Kurt Miller prepares machines for shipment March 18, 2020, at Ventec in Bothell, Washington. The ventilator manufacturer is teaming up with General Motors to increase output.

Inside the factories where workers rush to build lifesaving ventilators: ‘It’s a lot of pressure, I’m not going to lie’

April 8, 2020 at 2:53 p.m.

Leticia Frutos never imagined she'd spend weeks avoiding her month-old granddaughter because of her manufacturing job in Bothell, Washington The material assistant for Ventec Life Systems is one of more...

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