UW bails out of a sinking Pac-12 Conference; Seattle’s ‘urban heat island’ grows; Pierce Co. brush fire destroys nine homes, kills two residents; rival online-psychic networks in a legal dispute.

Museum of Museums closing forever (partly due to faulty plumbing); UW Regents ponder what to do if Pac-12 Conference collapses; City Council approves studying new I-5 lids; my annual defense of the hydroplane races.

Biopic about ’70s eastern-WA musicians whose LP’s ‘discovered’ decades later; updated vote totals don’t change much; short-staffed youth jail teeming with detainees; how rich must you be to buy a Seattle house?

The Kraken and a player’s wife don’t like explicit online sex-talk about the player; few surprises (and few incumbents) in first primary-election returns; Sawant’s rent-control bill fails; WA’s suing to stop ID’s ‘abortion travel ban.’

Three Thai-born Seattle filmmakers get noticed at Cannes; Bellevue finally has a permanent men’s shelter; Harrell announces revised drug-crackdown bill; the Pee-wee Herman legacy.

Last phase of new downtown ferry dock to finally open; can ‘Big-Art Culture’ in Seattle survive without Paul Allen?; guilty plea in 2020 protest killing; south-central WA wildfire now bigger than Seattle.

Fatal fire destroys a former U District theater; a ‘more potent fentanyl’ is now on the streets; the state’s court trial on Amazon-warehouse safety begins; ‘X’ marks the what?

Seahawks hope to sell lotsa ‘throwback’ jerseys; this year’s Seattle Art Fair to be more local than ever; court says Seattle’s doing too many encampment sweeps without advance notice; in Seattle becoming ‘a trans haven’?

Everett airport puts ‘Seattle’ in its name; City Council passes industrial-zoning package; MS sees ‘massive opportunity’ in AI tech for business; DoorDash database mistakes a Tacoma home for a Popeyes.

Local filmmaker’s Stewart Udall doc; Rep. Jayapal makes pro-Israeli politicians mad; folks had already complained about deadly Tacoma crash site; Harrell switches course on S. Lake Union light rain.

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).

Stonewall icon appears on U District ‘mural house;’ many crimes in WA went up last year (but not as much as the population); J-Rod hits it big, then loses; long lines at ice cream festival.