Fancy but tiny (and toilet-less) treehouse no longer for sale; two incumbents now lead in City Council votes; camping to protest Burien anti-camping law; Megan Rapinoe’s career ends with an injury.

Amazon shows off its custom electric vans; judge says the state’s gotta pay $4.2 million to Value Village; more Bartells and Rite Aid locations closing; Starbucks sues union organizers over pro-Palestine social media post.

New SIFF sign goes up at ex-Cinerama; Cafe Racer closes for the fourth time; supporters of Israel and of the Palestinians kept apart at simultaneous UW rallies; Homelessness Authority job cuts could leave some, well, homeless.

BC artist drops Bezos’ face(s) into a Rembrandt scene; Constantine seeks sales-tax hike for arts groups; Kaiser Permanente workers striking for three days; more gay men can now donate blood.

Excavating a former Japanese American commercial nursery; AB selling Redhook, other beer brands to a ‘cannabis-lifestyle’ co.; Smith Tower for sale (again); what is and isn’t in MoPOP’s Laika Films exhibit.

Activist, with neighbor and tribal support, hopes to save historic Wedgwood tree; seeking the truth about a defunct psych hospital’s dead patients; ICE-jail owners sue state officials; lobbying for ‘head safety in soccer.’

Street eco-graffiti near Amazon Spheres; more ‘security’ at Gorge concerts = more drug busts; Tetris video-game creator now lives on Eastside; Seattle Times fires columnist behind ‘Hitler wasn’t so bad in comparison’ Tweets.

Local man bicycles every Seattle block; Canlis servers accuse ‘wage theft;’ friends of threatened Tacoma church take their case to the Vatican; ‘Seattle Times’ columnist thinks Hitler wasn’t so bad (comparatively).

TV producer Shonda Rhimes’ website profiles Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner; Everett co.’s tourist sub missing near Titanic wreckage; Portland radio station’s AI announcer; what Juneteenth means in a time of racist backlashes.

Mural of Seattle icons done all in pencil; Harrell details parts of his big downtown plan; Soundgarden members reach settlement with Chris Cornell’s widow; local Navy vet runs pro-Putin propaganda account.

UW Dance tries to diversify both participants and curriculum; giant Convention Center addition opens at last; pro-choice march passes by two big local Catholic institutions; a wish to bring NW passenger rail back to the ‘50s.

Tacoma bar owners’ quest to restore the old, funny Rainier Beer ads; Seattle’s median income hits a new high (and why that’s bad); state official is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the COVID fight in WA; we just had our driest summer ever.

Mural about NW baseball history at the Ms’ new bar (where Pyramid used to be); King County has seven new e. coli cases; that supposed ‘Gorge shooter wannabe’ now apparently wasn’t; Starbucks finds a reason to close another unionized store.

Four decades of Seattle microbrews (some less micro- than others); COVID lockdowns were good for area birds; Harborview’s overcrowded and won’t take most new patients; West Seattle bridge reopens on 9/18.

Former burger-joint site to become 25 stories of ‘student’ housing; Comic Con will require masks after all; Reagan Dunn concedes Congressional run; Linda Derschang shrinks her food-drink empire.