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.

Pictures and stories of notable Seattle buildings; local lawyer sues Instagram over users’ drug dealing; judge says Amazon violated labor laws in NYC warehouse elections; federal COVID ‘emergency’ ending.

Mourning ‘outsider artist’ Gregory Blackstock, Screaming Trees cofounder Van Conner, and author Jonathan Raban; Grand Illusion Cinema could be razed in two years; Microsoft confirms 10,000 worldwide layoffs.

Wing Luke exhibit connects WWII internment camps with other ethnic struggles; a little snow around here can still cause big problems; hopes for sentencing reform in the next Legislature; how private-equity firms bleed (sometimes fatally) the companies they buy.

Charles Mudede on modern ghosts of Seattle past; a million chickens killed due to bird flu; an ‘officer involved’ death at King County Jail; Catholic Archdiocese spends big on a new archbishop’s residence.

1875 shipwreck remains found off WA coast; gun background-check law may finally get enforced; magic-mushroom therapy begins in Oregon; faulty Xmas-tree lights cause major house fire.