Indigenous artist paints an Alaska Airlines plane; Seattle population’s growing again; a new federal program hopes to help solve homelessness here and in five other places; happy (day after) Mt. St. Helens Day.

Seahawks use AI art prompts to make promo imagery; doctors fleeing post-Roe Idaho; Kraken in another playoff Game 7; what should be the CInerama’s new name?

Backyard cottage program for the homeless touts success; guilty plea in CHOP killing; Microsoft exec says AI ‘could cause real damage;’ Kraken owners want contract to replace Memorial Stadium.

Archie McPhee marks 40 years of rubber chickens; West Seattle Bridge off ramp closed with a big hole; Seattle schools start planning for big budget cuts; a judge could close an entire Alaska salmon fishery to help orcas.

Hyping rain as a reason to visit Seattle; Starbucks white-collar staffers diss its labor policies; Seattle’s lost many trees (many of them on city land) in recent years; the death of an infamous woman who lived pseudonymously around here.

Marking 22 years since the Nisqually quake (and 23 years since an infamous dot-com commercial); the sometimes-brutal toll of Amazon warehouse work; food banks prepare for a slash to federal SNAP benefits.

Modern urban mid-rise buildings & their discontents; judge sanctions city over Durkan’s missing texts; some Sounders FC fans don’t want Providence as the team’s new jersey sponsor; did Amazon lie to financial lenders about warehouse safety?

Local artist’s ‘zeitgeisty’ show at SAM; Value Village lawsuit goes to state Supreme Court; NLRB rules against companies firing people for unionizing; is the social-media age ending?

Tom Dyer’s 40-song ode to Oly; marking 10 years since the same-sex wedding spectacular at City Hall; window shot at Renton drag-queen story hour site; FTC sues to stop Microsoft from taking over Activision Blizzard.

Last Boeing 747 leaves assembly line; appeals court upholds most counts against Tim Eyman; First Baptist Church puts its land up for sale; is Amazon turning its back on customer experience?

‘Ted Lasso’ cheers on US soccer stars; alleged Ingraham shooter, 14, could be tried as an adult; City Council to debate a shrunken budget proposal; how Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won against all odds.

Sen. Patty Murray heads a slate of winning (or currently leading) WA Dems; Ingraham High shooting kills one student; ex-mayor Nickels defends the honor of ‘wealthy, older white people’; a Jackson Street jazz legend (and interracial-marriage groundbreaker) dies at 96.

Aquarium expansion, Market-to-waterfront walkway now under construction; city sues opioid makers’ PR firm; Tacoma’s guaranteed-income program’s a temporary success; can progressives learn to at least talk persuasively to each other?

More Halloween-esque spectacles; even-scarier GOP campaign ads; Rep. Jayapal pulls back from asking Biden to negotiate with Putin over Ukraine; prosecutor candidate Ferrell’s just-for-show ‘tough on drugs’ policy.

A conversation confab with human ‘books;’ the entire ‘aPodments’ chain’s for sale; Facebook found guilty of 822 campaign-finance violations; the Mariners’ postseason return stars today at last.