Meet West Seattle’s ‘beaver detective;’ Seattle teachers authorize strike if contract talks fail; WA sues to stop new mail-ballot restrictions; Bill Gates calls for ‘a tax on AI automated systems.’

WA State Book Award nominees include a ‘Dumb Birds Field Guide;’ court blocks federal retaliations against King County; another sexual harassment suit against an SPD officer; city, world say ‘Goodbye Dolly.’

Frye exhibit on ‘impermanence;’ Matt Calkins goes from Seattle Times to right-wing podcast; Wilson dismisses Chamber of Commerce polls dissing her; Starbucks fires workers who won’t move to Nashville.

‘What the Funk?!’ burlesque fest is back; Wilson recall drive goes to court; Chamber of Commerce poll says folks want CCTV cams, activists disagree; Uber Eats paying $4.4M in gig-worker settlement.

Nonprofit roller rink opens in an ex-Bartell’s; White House wants to end ‘roadless rule’ in National Forests; Costco to offer Medicare Advantage plans; visiting one of the 56 (so far) data centers near the Gorge.

New Netflix doc on Boeing whistleblowers; cars coming back on Pike Place (some days); Amazon AI lab caught buying, destroying rare books; Olympic Peninsula forest bought, saved from logging.

Local team’s medical-ed comics for young patients; another, bigger hunger strike at Tacoma ICE jail; light rail timeline to W. Seattle delayed again; oh, and the Seahawks are back.

Three wildfires attack WA’s second city; Councilmembers, Black leaders diss SPD chief Barnes’ ouster; Edmonds church condemns ICE activity on its property; another stupid shooting, in Idaho.

Wilson gets SPD chief Barnes to resign; appeals court rules in favor of ICE detainees; tech giants taking on ‘mountain of debt’ with AI spending; Storm co-owner fined, suspended over interaction with transphobe rally goers.

Local geology prof co-hosting PBS miniseries; ‘ghost gun’ found at Sunday shooting site; feds ‘investigating’ local high-school Pride display; what millionaires-tax repeal proponents don’t want you to know.

An illegal parachute jump from Space Needle; a fatal mass shooting nearby two days later; protests meet Erika Kirk at a right-wing Kirkland church; hundreds celebrate Jimothy in Ballard.

Burlesque acrobatics by Tanya Gagné & co.; fired US attorney Roger Rogoff suing feds; injunction in WA’s suit against ‘prediction market’ Kalshi; Jimothy-mania goes national.

New local hero ‘Jimothy’ gets his own video game; trans woman from TX ‘moved here to survive;’ report pans ‘overcrowded’ WA youth-prison system; current WA wildfires burn over 160 square miles.

Strange, beloved raccoon prowls Ballard back yards; Wilson’s transit measure passes Council mostly intact; suit over ‘torturous’ conditions at WA women’s prison; crime way down (mostly) in Seattle so far this year.

Judge sez Denny Blaine Park can stay nude, with ‘conditions;’ new US attorney for western WA promptly fired by White House; anti-‘millionaires tax’ initiative makes ballot; lightning could spark wildfires today.