Bursting with Black talent and fueled by WPA funding, this Depression-era theater troupe lit up Seattle stages with ambitious productions and huge casts.
The state's unemployment rate is still rising and jobs are still disappearing, though not as fast as in the past year. Here's a survey of Washington state's economy, which has shed 166,500 jobs since...
Benefits paid to unemployed workers in Washington set a record in 2010. And one broad measure of unemployment puts the true jobless rate here at over 18 percent.