Fixing fish passages under highways will cost the state a lot; city hits new homicide record; Children’s Hospital psych nurses say they need more security; Issaquah’s XXX is now the ex-XXX.

Locally-written drama explores Israeli-Palestinian rift; TV-station owners, streaming services playing fiscal hardball; SPD officer accused of helping drug runners; Alex Pedersen wants to use trees to deter residential development.

(Cleaned-up) stuff found in local sewers; cryptocurrency tycoon pleads guilty to allowing money-laundering; petition to keep ‘Dykekiki’ nude beach at Denny Blaine; Harrell wants SLU light rail to be less convenient. 

Thousands of historic Asahel Curtis photos being digitized for the first time; Microsoft hires ousted OpenAI boss; Burien threatens to sue church for hosting an encampment; suit says Amazon drivers work too dangerously fast.

Signs put up everywhere someone died in a car crash in Seattle; KEXP confirms it’s buying a San Francisco-area station; a multi-faith protest calls for a cease-fire; ‘three-story pickleball facility’ proposed for Interbay.

Graphic novel on sibling rivalry; no Seattle public schools to close (for now); some dogs missing after dog-daycare center catches fire; is Seattle ‘too boring to be the worst at anything’?

Business-backed candidates leading City Council races in early returns; protester fights back against extremist provocateur Jonathan Choe; another installation art space closing; two new Pike/Pine nightclubs opening.

Ex-Microsoft exec, wife fund SAM’s big Alexander Calder show; early city ballot returns running low; ‘Jewish Voices for Peace’ group shuts down Federal Building; why is Jeff Bezos really splitting town?

Seattle’s true face as revealed (in Shaun Scott’s new book) thru sports; wind knocks out power to many and sets a barge adrift; ex-King Co. jail guard accused of co-running drug ring; Bezos leaving town for Miami.

Creative indie video games rise from the margins of an industry in crisis; PCC’s downtown grocery palace closing after less than two years; ex-We Heart Seattle prez accused of theft in Oregon; Convoy’s ‘tech’ has a buyer, but not the company itself.

Halloween stories include a (big) Bigfoot film collection; SPD can’t lie to the public (as much) anymore; seven state ferries are now in for repair; did Amazon fire a worker for criticizing its back-to-the-office edict?

Japanese woodblock ghost stories at SAM; The Postman store staying open after all; PCC claims its workers make too much (they disagree); why this year’s World Series may particularly irk Mariners fans.

Coffee-table mag honors ‘Filipinotown’; Amazon workers talk about ‘pain and exhaustion;’ big business wants a Council that’ll cut everything but cops; can AI really solve all humanity’s problems? (Probably not.)

Artist/curator Tariqa Waters wins big SAM award; off-duty pilot tries to sabotage Alaska Air flight; business groups spending big in City Council races; Bainbridge High football players accused of chanting racial epithets.

My suggestion for a Seattle-centric Halloween getup; big-money backed trucking startup Convoy calls it quits; new elementary school project could sacrifice classrooms for parking; dissing the new city drug law as it takes effect.