Japanese co. opens fancy commercial ‘campfield’ in southwest WA; judge halts big grocery merger for now; feds planing a giant solar farm at Hanford; western wildfire season getting worse.

Seattle’s biggest art weekend is here; violent crime is down (despite politicians’ ranting to the contrary); WA voters don’t like abortion restrictions; Justice Dept. OKs Boeing plea bargain deal over 737 MAX crashes.

The prettiest Taco Time is going away; what got cut from city’s Transportation Levy; a new name for an old light-rail stop; Kraken hires NHL’s first female asst. coach.

Detailed map shows eco projects at risk under cap-and-trade repeal initiative; we’re almost to 800,000 people; a state employee’s big alleged fraud; Bill Gates loses his spot among the world’s richest to his Microsoft successor.

More dissing about corporatized Pride; local officials say they won’t be (more) punitive against the unhoused after SCOTUS decision; yet another state ferry knocked out of service; feds may seek Boeing plea-bargain deal.

Rat City Roller Derby turns 20; more impacts of Tuesday’s UW protest scuffle; Seattle School District may close up to 20 elementary schools; should a disgraced former abusive priest get to keep his Ph.D.?

Book about a sanctioned encampment by someone who lived in it; UW ‘scuffle’ between pro-Gaza protesters, Charlie Kirk followers; Macklemore’s protest-supporting song; an online dashboard of Mayor Harrell’s ‘promises.’

Pro-Palestinian protest encampment on UW Quad; city Planning Commission finds Harrell’s Comprehensive Plan deeply insufficient; SPD contract goes to City Council; Mariners win an epic pitching-duel game.

Frank Herbert wrote a gay-coded villain while disowning his gay son; local newspaper chain’s mysterious new owners; traffic deaths set a recent record; MacKenzie Scott gives big (again).

Shaun Scott book recounts the age-old sports/politics interface; more reaction to acquittals in Manny Ellis’ killing; the complicated truth behind that ‘nightmare tenant’ story; what Boxing Day means to me.

‘Ghosts of Belltown’ group show opens new art space; ‘Jewish Voices for Peace’ mach closes University Bridge; city drug-treatment program already near capacity; could the feds order Starbucks to reopen unionized-then-closed stores?

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?

Will the PAX video-game expo outdraw the revived Bumbershoot?; late-summer COVID wave; some non-teaching Seattle Schools staff could strike; fish are ‘dying in droves’ on a Vancouver Island river.

‘American Junkie’ author/musician Tom Hansen’s cancer death; big T-Mobile layoffs; city tells free-pantry organizer to scale back her operation; wildfire smoke coming back this weekend.

Cal Anderson’s memorial tree suddenly removed from state capitol campus; wildfire smoke’s coming back here; 22 counties sue DSHS over ‘mental health failures;’ Republicans won’t believe Seattle’s not a burnt-down hellhole.