The Emerald City Is One of the Greenest: The personal finance website Wallethub has ranked Seattle as the 6th Greenest City in America. In honor of October being National Energy Awareness month, the site conducted an in-depth analysis comparing 100 of the most-populated U.S. cities across 13 key metrics, ranging from green-house gas emissions per capita…

Every dog has its day. And that day has finally come for Tillie the setter, a dog that Governor Inslee will present with the Washingtonian of the Day award, KING 5 News reports. Tillie stood ground for a week after her canine friend, Phoebe, fell in an old cistern on Vashon Island. The two pups…

Peet’s Buys Stumptown: In a letter released on Tuesday, Stumptown Coffee Roasters announced their acquisition by Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a major West Coast coffee retailer. Although the companies maintain different philosophies, Josh Ricci, president of Stumptown, ensured the New York Times that the companies will continue to “run independently” and will be “treated as seperate businesses but with…

More secure credit card chip readers are supposed to be installed in stores by Thursday, although only 27 percent of retailers have the new machines, KIRO 7 reports. Cards with chips will no longer be swiped, but dipped into the new readers that provide an added level of security by creating a unique code for…

Let the demolition begin. IKEA begins demolition today—September 17—to make room for its 406,000-square-foot facility in downtown Renton. The store—which will be built across the street from its current Seattle-area location—comes with 1,600 parking spaces. Customers can continue shopping at the current location until construction is complete in spring 2017. The age-old question that has…