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Boeing's Model 314 Clipper flying boat made its 38-minute first flight over Puget Sound, piloted by test pilot Eddie Allen. The giant flying boat went on to open Pan Am's first non-stop transatlantic passenger service.

Peter Canlis opened his restaurant in 1950 on the slope above Lake Union, in a post-and-beam pavilion of glass and stone that became a landmark of north-west modernism, and it has stayed in the family. Its kimono-clad service and copper-fired charcoal grill were both unusual for an American dining room of the period.

The rebuild of the north end of SEA's main terminal added the airport's first at-scale automated bag drops, a redesigned Checkpoint 6, a new Bridge Level check-in, upgraded baggage claim devices and eight major public art installations. The Port of Seattle and Alaska Airlines marked the finish of major construction, the first of a run of Upgrade SEA projects due to complete before the summer's international soccer tournament.

The FAA granted Boeing an amended type certificate for the 737-7, clearing the smallest and longest-range MAX variant for commercial service after a test programme that began in 2018 and ran more than 1,000 hours.

Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.

Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, who founded Mandiant and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion, to its board of directors and its Audit and Security committees.

A week after 21 Air Flight 7598 overran a Miami runway and killed five people, Amazon said it had paused its operations with the North Carolina cargo carrier, which had flown Amazon Air packages since 2024.

AWS became the first cloud provider approved to handle NATO RESTRICTED information for every member nation, after Spain's National Cryptographic Centre assessed it against NATO's D32 cloud directive. Allies can now run NR workloads in any AWS Region located in a NATO country.

A $1-an-hour raise lifts minimum starting pay for Amazon's U.S. full-time core operations employees to $20, with average pay nearly $24 an hour, part of a more than $1.5 billion investment in higher pay. A 10% employee grocery discount and a lifetime banking benefit come with it.

Amazon's 48-hour fall Prime Day sale, with Prime member-exclusive deals across more than 35 categories and new Today's Big Deals dropping three times a day. It kicks off the holiday shopping season in 22 countries.

Based on Stephen King's iconic debut novel, Carrie is a bold, timely, and surprising reinvention of this classic coming of age story, adapted for television for the first time by visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan. Misfit high schooler Carrie White has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret. After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence. Told over eight propulsive episodes, the series expands King's cultural landmark - deepening its characters and tensions, and following the small, everyday choices that build toward a single, shattering night, in a gripping, deeply human story about kindness versus cruelty, and whether we're witnessing the making of a hero, a monster, or something far more complicated. Season 1 starts on Prime Video.

Based on the best-selling novel by Jack Carr, The Terminal List follows James Reece after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves. Season 2 starts on Prime Video.

Set thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, this epic drama follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. Season 3 starts on Prime Video.

Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city. Season 1 starts on Prime Video.

Amazon says it has launched enough Leo satellites for initial service and will open its satellite broadband to consumers later in 2026, after an enterprise preview that began April 8.

The FTC and state attorneys general take Amazon to a bench trial before Judge John Chun over claims it illegally keeps its online marketplace monopoly by overcharging sellers and punishing those who offer lower prices elsewhere. The trial has slipped twice from its original October 2026 date.

Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle and the Kraken-backed One Roof Partnership are replacing the 1947 stadium with a rebuilt open-air venue for school sport, concerts and community events, keeping and reframing the Memorial Wall that honours 762 local students and alumni killed in the Second World War. It is funded with $110 million of public money plus roughly $30 million raised privately.

The Port of Seattle's S Concourse Evolution project adds 150,000 square feet to the 1973 satellite concourse that handles most of SEA's international flights, including a new upper concourse level and dual-level boarding at selected gates, reusing customs space freed when the International Arrivals Facility opened in 2022. All phases are estimated to finish by 2034.

Sound Transit pushed back the opening of the West Seattle Link light rail extension, one flagship piece of its $54BN Sound Transit 3 build-out.