Rehabbed Salmon Bone Bridge reopens; local responses to fed govt. shutdown; anti-trans rally organizers sue city and Harrell; ‘tattoo queen of Seattle’ wants her stolen marionette back.

Tower project with an old 747 at its center is ‘back on;’ why the MAGAs want a gov’t shutdown; why the MAGAs are out to get Portland; Seattle, WA minimum wages to rise next year.

Ex-‘Seattle Sketcher’ spreads the word about hand-drawn art; city, state leaders don’t want US troops on our streets; big $$ for Harrell re-election campaign; last three Bartell Drug stores close.

Mariners-owned TV channel closes; Rendezvous buyers make themselves known; Harrell claims most of Seattle’s unhoused people aren’t from here; Portland isn’t ‘war-torn,’ doesn’t want federal troops on its streets.

Women’s ‘pre-professional’ soccer team debuts; Katie Wilson won’t debate on KOMO if it won’t air Kimmel; AZ Republican wants Rep. Jayapal murdered for encouraging protests; Ms clinch first-round playoff bye.

Popular YouTuber spends a (live, unedited) day in Seattle; firefighter held by ICE released; Harrell’s budget plan raids housing $$ for more cops (again); oh, and there was a big baseball game.

Pancake Chef to serve its last short stack; WA still won’t give state voter info to feds; Harrell’s proposed budget gives still more to SPD; another Kimmel-banning TV station group wants to buy KING.

‘Cascade PBS News,’ née Crosscut, axed; what ‘fewer tech jobs’ may mean to Seattle;’ exUW prof who founded black-history website dies; Jimmy Kimmel’s comeback won’t be on Sinclair-owned KOMO.

Ex-local cinema mogul dies; Council OKs compromise-filled Comp Plan; Ms sweep archrival Astros while Seahawks, Huskies also win big; new H-1B visa fees could ‘impact’ local tech giants.

New totem, ‘story’ poles with modern/eternal messages; federal cuts mean big layoffs at Seattle Children’s; Amazon ends policy resellers hate; Harrell catches up to Wilson in campaign fundraising.

Ceramic sculptor’s takes on myth and misogyny; homeless numbers in WA growing more slowly; Storm’s massive comeback forces a playoff game 3; no, Mt. St. Helens isn’t erupting again.

Local co.’s ‘landline-inspired’ phones for kids have no screens or apps; hundreds attend city’s last Comp Plan hearing; park goers hit by ‘dive-bombing owls,’ local school’s national award canceled by feds.

Seattle Symphony’s first female music director; Katie Wilson calls herself a ‘socialist’ (but not a purist ideologue); downtown foot traffic, hotel biz set high marks; Mariners, Cal Raleigh reach milestones.

‘Baseball cards’ depict crooked and/or abusive cops; state AG Brown warns of ‘race-based policing’ after US Supreme Court ruling; WA Justice Mary Yu retiring; ‘Seattle’s racial income gap among the widest.’

Songstress Julie Cascioppo’s new memoir; WA says it won’t feed private voter info to feds; why so many people hate expanding SPD’s surveillance-cam network; an ex-Microsoft exec’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘birthday book.’