‘Rustic style’ 1908 home threatened; in-state Amazon layoffs exceed 2,000; homicide, other violent crimes went way down in Seattle in ’25; ‘Easy Street Records owner apologizes for sympathetic ICE comments.’

Amazon suddenly closes two grocery chains, potentially creating a Central District ‘food desert’; ICE abducts dad in front of child in Shoreline; Boeing sales jump 60 percent; region loses 130,000 jobs in the past year.

Seattle in the Depression, as it was covered at the time; ICE flights at Boeing Field way up; Wilson replaces more city dept. heads; area unemployment rises above 5 percent.

Crocodile music club for sale after amassing big debts; six Seattle schools ‘shelter in place’ after ICE rumors; tariffs mean slow going at Port of Seattle; should historic Gas Works Park structures be torn down?

Ode to a favorite light-rail station; migrant farmworkers face ‘fear and uncertainty;’ Ferguson’s mostly-cuts budget plan and its discontents; the intersection of politics, religion, and AI.

Art by loved ones of the incarcerated; city buys Talaris property in Laurelhurst; Bush Garden reopening at new site after two-year delay; proposing a ‘180 degree turn’ approach to the climate crises.

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.

Bookseller Peter Miller on Pioneer Square’s future; Little Red Hen suing to stop eviction; state lawmakers prepare for big budget cuts; are Gas Works’ legacy structures a ‘public nuisance’?

Doomed Belltown apt. building saved by and for artists; ICE abductions threaten local suburbs; Bill Gates’ daughter wants more women running AI companies; Buy Nothing Day’s local roots.

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?

Big rotating globe invites contemplation at St. Mark’s; Katie Wilson’s lead for mayor grows; judge nixes city plans for a Sodo housing/arts complex; WA sez SNAP benefits are ‘go’, SCOTUS sez they’re ‘stop.’

Tower project with an old 747 at its center is ‘back on;’ why the MAGAs want a gov’t shutdown; why the MAGAs are out to get Portland; Seattle, WA minimum wages to rise next year.

Bremerton civic project honors Quincy Jones (and other Black locals); CVS devours Bartell Drugs’ last crumbs; judge orders ICE to release Seattle man; is Harrell using city funds/resources for electioneering?

Ichiro retrospective exhibit at MOHAI; right-wing cancel culture targets public media; gasoline-truck spill imperils Pt. Angeles water supply; is city inspector general deleting/altering public records?

(Shorter) film-fest madness returns; what you might not hear about King County shooting numbers; Amazon was falsely rumored to be listing products’ tariff costs; Texas ia getting a 3-D printed Starbucks store.