‘The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show’ returns; massive windstorm threat also returns; Ferguson proposes drastic budget cuts but supports income tax on millionaires; most striking Starbucks workers returning to work.

Santa’s whole family on a holiday train; floods aren’t over but recovery’s just begun; local Dems start ‘non-violent resistance committee;’ just another ho-hum Seahawks miracle win.

New nonprofit arts/performance space; ICE arrests surge while detention conditions deteriorate; big windstorm power outages continue; who’s behind mysterious right-wing political entity ‘Washington Rising’?

The historic ‘bus riders’ depicted on a Rainier Ave. mural; another local levee breaks; two farms accused of keeping workers on the job during flood evacuations; Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy.

Local Chanukah ceremony after Sydney shooting; Green River levee break causes temporary ‘Get Out’ order; alleged pimp crashes SUV into kombucha taproom; tech giants ‘offloading the risks of the AI boom.’

MOHAI explores intersections of women, queer-lib, and motorcycles; Seattle’s soul-food queen dies; Wild Waves gets one more year; over 100,000 may evacuate region’s ‘catastrophic’ floods.

‘Seattle’s last roadhouse’ closing; waiting for the ‘atmospheric river’ to resume after major floods; City Council OKs SPOG contract; Ste. Michelle wines sold to in-state buyers.

Autistic actor in an autistic role; ICE wants to deport deathly-ill man; state Sen. Rebecca Saldaña running for Zahilay’s old County Council seat; ‘Pride Day’ at Seattle’s World Cup matches will take on a deeper meaning.

Another light-rail expansion opening day; Sen. Murray speaks for a man mauled by an ‘ICE dog’ during arrest; local rents rose 30+ percent in just 5 years; waiting for the big rain.

Light rail expands in south King County; city to double aid to ‘affordable’ housing providers; local Somali community reacts to racist White House remarks; ‘everyone in Seattle hates AI.’

Personal notes get translated into fabric in local artist’s exhibit; WA defends voter privacy and Planned Parenthood from the feds; Boeing cleared to buy back Spirit Aerosystems; ‘South Hill Rapist’ dies.

Annual Sheraton ‘Gingerbread Village;’ feds sue state to get voter-registration data; Ferguson to submit ‘all-cuts budget;’ SPD killing near Othello station.

A coffee house training at-risk youth; Costco sues over federal tariffs; state big-biz payroll tax plan coming to next Legislature; BC Bitcoin ‘mines’ turning into AI data centers.

Ex-Seahawk’s mobile ‘spatial design’ gem; civil-rights official named to state Supreme Court; community clinics brace for ‘the new uninsured;’ why did BP’s pipeline leak go undetected for so long?

Cafe Nordo concept to be revived, expanded; what America pre-JFK-shooting was really like; states block feds from killing some funding programs; UW study set AI contributes to racially-biased hiring decisions.