Meet West Seattle’s ‘beaver detective;’ Seattle teachers authorize strike if contract talks fail; WA sues to stop new mail-ballot restrictions; Bill Gates calls for ‘a tax on AI automated systems.’

New Netflix doc on Boeing whistleblowers; cars coming back on Pike Place (some days); Amazon AI lab caught buying, destroying rare books; Olympic Peninsula forest bought, saved from logging.

Local team’s medical-ed comics for young patients; another, bigger hunger strike at Tacoma ICE jail; light rail timeline to W. Seattle delayed again; oh, and the Seahawks are back.

Shoreline Sears in happier times and today; Council bans landlords’ ‘junk fees;’ Spokane fires leave ’thousands of displaced residents;’ battery-farm developers accused of ‘keeping public in the dark.’

‘AI film festival’ coming back to town; ICE still trying to prevent state jail inspections; Storm finally win a game after 11 straight losses; where will Spokane wildfire victims live?

Local Black leaders still see the Central District as the community’s ‘home’; local DJ held by ICE for three weeks in Mass.; state House District 27 race narrows; ’Neumos security staff unionizes.’

Arson arrest in Spokane fire devastation; ICE’s alleged ‘soft raid’ at a seafood plant; Amazon’s stock value tops $3 trillion on AI hopes; and, oh yeah, there’s a primary election today.

Local geology prof co-hosting PBS miniseries; ‘ghost gun’ found at Sunday shooting site; feds ‘investigating’ local high-school Pride display; what millionaires-tax repeal proponents don’t want you to know.

Seattle Art Fair & many ‘satellite’ exhibits; Council may OK universal free school lunches after all; WA ranks 50th in public wind, solar power; no, White House, Jimothy is a raccoon, not a MAGAt.

Burlesque acrobatics by Tanya Gagné & co.; fired US attorney Roger Rogoff suing feds; injunction in WA’s suit against ‘prediction market’ Kalshi; Jimothy-mania goes national.

New local hero ‘Jimothy’ gets his own video game; trans woman from TX ‘moved here to survive;’ report pans ‘overcrowded’ WA youth-prison system; current WA wildfires burn over 160 square miles.

Amanda Knox monologue show; Mayor Wilson praises World Cup’s impact; state pushes back on claims of ‘foreign election interference;’ Megan Rapinoe says anti-trans legislation’s about ‘distracting us.’

Strange, beloved raccoon prowls Ballard back yards; Wilson’s transit measure passes Council mostly intact; suit over ‘torturous’ conditions at WA women’s prison; crime way down (mostly) in Seattle so far this year.

Tukwila industrial park with 18 (count ‘em!) data centers; campaign launched to save ‘millionaires’ tax’ from repeal; new concert hall coming downtown; Rep. Smith wants White House occupant ‘removed.’

Silicon Valley mogul, family aim to buy Seahawks; gray-whale deaths along Pacific coast now at 145; more wildfire evacuation orders in Eastern WA; another Boeing mid-flight near-disaster.