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Holidays often evoke family traditions and food memories. So we asked Leslie Coaston and Laurie Minzel, the former owners of the Kingfish Café, about theirs. The sisters' Kingfish Café was a favorite fixture in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood before it closed in 2015. And it all started out as a dream.

Which airline you choose can help cut back on the damage your air travel does to the climate, according to a new study .

This is a crazy time of year for online retail behemoth Amazon – especially for their robots. Robots have already taken over a lot of the work in Kent's Amazon warehouse, like finding and retrieving items. And they’re continually learning how to do things that humans do.

Highway congestion in the Seattle area overall was up 22 percent in 2016. That's according to the latest WSDOT report on the state of our roads network. That network is challenged — as are we all — with the consequences of Seattle’s jobs and population explosion.

It’s the last few days before Christmas and Amazon warehouses are buzzing with human activity — and with robots. The robots are getting more intelligent, and experts say robots will soon take more of those jobs. There are things humans can do to get ready for that future. Amazon intends to help them prepare.

Two friends who shared a lifelong love of trains, Zack Willhoite and Jim Hamre, had looked forward to the inaugural run of Amtrak 501 from Seattle to Portland. Friends who knew them said it was a given they would’ve been on this initial trip, likely in a front car as the train followed a brand-new route south of Tacoma.

Eurie Dessie and Kpojo Kparyea don't want to be labeled as "angry black women." So how do they respond when they're asked if they eat fried chicken and drink Kool-Aid? Or if they know every black person on campus? Or how about when a restaurant manager asked Dessie to "go clean it like your ancestors did." "I wish I went off !" Dessie said. Dessie and Kparyea talk about staying calm in the face of racism and microaggressions .

Passengers on Amtrak Cascades train 501 Monday morning were supposed to be the beneficiaries of a $181 million project aimed at making the nearly four-hour trip from Seattle to Portland 10 minutes faster.

You may not have heard of Edouardo Jordan, but he's been getting a lot of local and national praise. He’s chef owner of Salare and JuneBaby in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood. This year he was a finalist for the James Beard Award, the Oscar’s of the food world. Last year, he was listed in Food and Wine’s Best New Chefs. Lately, he’s breaking new ground in the Northwest with his southern cooking.

Last updated: 12/18/2017 11:56 p.m. An Amtrak train on its inaugural run from Seattle to Portland derailed Monday morning, sending several cars car off an overpass and onto a busy Interstate 5 below.

Seattle has 1,100 old brick buildings that are especially vulnerable to collapsing in a big earthquake. Few have been retrofitted to withstand a major seismic event. Now researchers at the University of British Columbia say they’ve come up with a cheap, fast way to reinforce such buildings: spray them with bendable concrete.

A family of four now needs annual income of nearly $76,000 just for basics to live in Seattle – up $30,000 from 2006. That’s according to researchers at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Regional politicians have been assembling a multi-county strategy to keep Amazon’s growth here. The company’s announcement last month that it will pick a second headquarters has sent cities scurrying to meet an October 19 deadline.

Hundreds of old brick buildings in Seattle are at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake – that’s clear. Also clear: These structures are often in neighborhoods with high risk for displacement – affecting people of color and low-income households.

When I met Dave Rank, he was just a normal guy on a road trip with his wife in a used Subaru. But not long before that, Dave had a very important job.