100 years since the first round-the-world flight; why LA-made Rainier Beer’s missing from local bars; more background about the cop who killed Jaahnavi Kandula; data centers and electric cars straining the NW power grid.

Kids’ TV host ‘Brakeman Bill’ dies; advocates decry city transportation plan and SPD contract proposal; Senate wants Boeing CEO to testify; ‘at least six’ suicide attempts reported at Tacoma ICE jail.

More Cobain remembrances 30 years later; more on Boeing’s longtime fealty to the Almighty Stock Price; proposed SPD contract offers little to no increased accountability; there’s an eclipse and we’ll get it just partly (again).

Anniversary of Spokane’s Expo ’74 (and of Cobain’s death); Harrell announces a not-so-exciting transportation plan; John Oliver vs. food delivery app companies.

Accordion-esque apartment tower opens; refugees get a few more days in Kent hotel after one-night encampment; Manuel Ellis police killing co-defendant quits new job; Boise State prof ran an extremist website.

Online ‘influencers’ are a growing target of restaurant marketing; Rainier View principal transferred out; more protests against Tacoma ICE jail; MAGAts will invoke racism on any flimsy excuse.

Master plan to improve Pike Place Market for local shoppers; SPD union gets tentative contract deal with city; Seattle Schools closing ‘highly capable cohort’ program; a print-media tradition few people probably miss.

Trying to save Puget Sound’s endangered ‘kelp forests;’ Instacart settles sick-leave law violations; burnt-out site on Rainier to become 400 apartments; some past bridge disasters of our own.

A history of Black student movements at UW, WSU; Legislature OKs three conservative initiatives; King County launches new anti-fentanyl efforts; MAGA candidate in SW WA invokes racism to oppose a new I-5 bridge.

Charles Peterson’s Nirvana pix in new book; charter school partly funded by Russell Wilson may have to close; man beaten by Lakewood cops says he hadn’t spit at them; remembering a ‘vivid’ abstract painter.

Standing relics of Seattle’s vice-laden past; national site likes Seattle & Spokane’s downtown efforts; ex-owner of Tula’s Jazz Club dies; fighting back against the ‘racial justice backlash.’

City says don’t toss your old AAs in the trash; two gay bars cited for under-dressed patrons; migrant refugees to be kicked out of Kent hotel; ‘pickleball hotel’ coming to Interbay.

Music-scene outreach to supply the homeless; Tacoma man convicted at 18, out of prison at 43, could be sent back; ex-WA First Lady Nancy Evans dies; ‘three girls’ caught on cam vandalizing cars in Bellevue.

A Tacoma-based ‘Muslim Khmer’ artist’s provocative installations; ‘SNL’ makes a spoof Alaska Airlines ad; Sens. Murray & Cantwell describe a horrific post-‘Roe’ landscape; a beloved Seattle music-scene figure dies.

PacSci exhibit extols women in STEM; Huskies fall short in national football title game; fallen ‘door plug’ from 737 MAX 9 found in a Portland back yard; beloved Tacoma bagel-shop owner killed in New Orleans.