Ms star Julio Rodriguez gets his own cereal; Amazon shareholders nix activist motions (again); can the orca Tokitae survive bring brought home?; seven City Council races, 45 candidates.

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?

SIFF to reopen (and rename) the Cinerama; Metro’s dropping more routes; we just had a really bad flu season; gay men can donate blood again.

UW researchers to earthquake-test a mass timber high rise; Seattle has more very-rich folk these days; City Council won’t prevent new housing in the name of saving trees; it’ll get mighty hot here.

Kent church parking lot turned into community garden; street clock moving crew damages roof of Westlake transit station; it’s back-to-the-office day at Amazon; more horrid shootings.

Bartell Drugs’ oldest store suddenly closed; Legislature passes weakened ‘missing middle housing’ bill; some Amazon offices aren’t ready for workers to come back; progressive groups ask Starbucks to accept unions.

VR app explores Central District’s heritage; a federal judge in WA approves ‘abortion pill’ while a federal judge in TX moves to ban it; assault-weapons ban passes in Legislature; would light-rail station construction kill the SIFF Uptown cinemas?

Exhibit shows how I-5 construction decimated part of the Chinatown-International District; ‘transit-oriented’ housing bill watered down; Costco reports slowing sales growth; West Seattle’s Yen Wor Village dive bar closes.

What (or rather who) is/isn’t in new Seattle Literary Map; Harrell launches $970 million affordable-housing levy drive; City Council candidate accused of reneging on paying campaign workers; Happy Indictment Day!

Art projects (with far different public reactions) in Everett and Lakewood; Howard Schultz tells Senate committee he’s not a ‘union buster;’ Kirkland megachurch accused of forcing workers to ‘tithe’ back part of their pay; some sports pundits predict big things for the Ms this season.

How an ex-corner store became the Grocery Studios; city and feds want to end the SPD ‘consent decree’; City Council OKs permanent paid sick leave for gig workers; survivors claim Boy Scouts ignored abuse at a WA summer camp for decades.

Ex-Coliseum Theater to become a big pop-up art space; more about the apartment eviction that led to a shooting death; bakery king Remo Borracchini dies; King County’s now majority ‘high income.’

Online map grades Seattle neighborhoods by ‘walkability;’ social housing measure leads in early returns; a big Boeing deal with Air India (which makes an even bigger deal with Airbus); do ‘crumb rubber’ sports fields cause cancer?

Seattle crime stats beyond the scary headlines; Microsoft adds AI shticks to searches (as expected); a traffic death is allegedly due to a DUI forklift operator; a downtown cineplex might not close after all.

Granddaughter’s picture book celebrates Pacific Science Center architect; Teresa Mosqueda wants to jump from city to county council; Amazon reports a money-losing year; Sounders FC to compete on a global stage.