Amazon testing a movie-style robot (to do human tasks); KEXP may buy a northern-Calif. station; could Seattle apt. values shrink 30 percent?; man tries to ‘hire a prostitute for his horse.’

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.)

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.

Local rallies support different stances in Gaza conflict; the ‘original sin’ of Seattle urban planning; Microsoft completes Activision acquisition; UW football stages spectacular comeback win over U of O

‘Cambodian Rock Band’ musical mixes ‘buoyant’ music & historic tragedy; Manuel Ellis’s mother claims ‘intimidation’ as police trial continues; UW Ph.D grad killed in Israel-Hamas conflict; Comcast bumps Root Sports from basic cable.

New ‘Frasier’ has even less to do with Seattle than the old one; state’s car-crash deaths soar; Grubhub settles with city over underpaid sick time; Kaiser Permanente workers may go on strike today.

Longtime Seattle art/music scene figure dies; three City Councilmembers say they’re against any major ‘austerity’ budget cuts; SDOT’s got ideas for climate-change responses in transportation; Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe still exists (but not for long).

Metro’s new buses will bear new colors; locals tell Fox News that Seattle’s all right after all; FTC suit could define Amazon’s post-Bezos era; calling out Target on its ‘crime’ excuse for closing two small stores.

Online game simulates a very-real war zone; Ann Davison wants OK to sweep encampments without promising shelter; 3rd Ave. could get high-rise rezoning; lawsuit cites birth defects among Boeing Everett workers.

Beloved bartender Murray Stenson RIP; ‘Justice for Jaahnavi’ activists march to SPOG HQ; Duwamish cleanup could cost a billion (will Boeing pay its fair share?); the rainy season’s arrived.

Comic depicts unhoused woman’s struggles, as an ambitious housing program ends; City Council approves new ‘drug war’ bill; city workers rally for a fair new contract; could Microsoft buy Nintendo?

Nighttime video-art installation at City Hall Park; why some places with more poverty don’t have more homelessness; why people don’t get needed mental-health treatment; do you trust SPD to fairly enforce a new drug law?

Film ‘Fantasy A Gets a Mattress’ shows struggles of being an artist in Seattle; stats show widening local wage gaps; more reaction to post-police-killing ‘joke;’ feds sue Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime subscription practices.

‘Chaos and male fragility’ in ex-Amazonian’s memoir; City Council’s revised war-on-drug bill moves ahead; Lusty Lady sign (what’s left of it) comes down; is or isn’t Seattle an AI industry powerhouse?

Deaf playwright’s horror-comedy; QFC (and some Safeways) to be sold off under grocery-merger plan; landlords sued over alleged software-enabled rent collusion; Bob Ferguson becomes one of 11 (so far) announced candidates for governor.