PAX West and the business of play; AI’s real threat isn’t what ‘AI doomers’ claim; officials vow to keep Sound Transit projects funded; could Boeing be prosecuted over 737 MAX disasters?

Rallies for ‘Workers Over Billionaires;’ other protesters don’t give homophobes the martyrdom they want; deportation flights now hiding their identity; some subsidized apts. now cost more than some market-rate units.

Sock puppets mime to Council meetings in videos; feds used WA DOL data to track down undocumented residents; Microsoft asked FBI to spy on pro-Gaza employees; can kazoos drown out homophobic preacher?

‘Sasquatch Mountain’ attraction coming to waterfront; pro-Palestinian sit-in at MS execs’ offices; politicians caught using AI text (and one who denies it); Stranger owners buy Chicago Reader.

Starbucks/Redhook/Seattle Weekly cofounder Gordon Bowker RIP; how right-wing preacher Sean Feucht capitalizes on Seattle-bashing; how to keep federal troops off our streets; coding careers are even more male-dominated these days.

Singing together for the fun of it; ICE arrests activist during citizenship hearing; Rendezvous in Belltown suddenly closes; local COVID rates highest in a year.

Lynda V. Mapes launches book praising old forests; Ferguson keeps defending WA’s immigration policies; two more Fred Meyer stores (one in Seattle) closing; KING to be absorbed into the biggest TV station group ever.

Sue Bird Statue unveiled; Ferguson defends WA’s ‘sanctuary’ status vs. Pam Bondi attacks; nudity-hiding fence at Denny Blaine Park has a rough start; the monster storm that wasn’t.

Two specialty bookshops open in short-term spaces; why Worldcon coming here’s a big deal; locals decry fed takeover of DC local police; will city allow another homophobic ‘hate rally’ on Capitol Hill?

Props, puppets, street theater defending Denny Blaine Park nudity; state sues feds over lost climate funding; was Mercer Island teacher’s abuse covered up?; violent crime down in Seattle (and DC), despite right-wing claims.

Late photojournalist’s son displays his works in new prints; WA state employee held by ICE in Texas; Katie Wilson has majority vote for mayor; no, Pacific Place’s plight isn’t downtown-Seattle-specific.

A homecoming jaunt to Oregon; primary results unchanged in late counts; Alaska Airlines’ Native icon isn’t on some new planes; ex-Seahawks coach Carroll’s return visit ends in a draw.

Lloyd Center adds the ‘Portland weird;’ Katie Wilson’s lead for mayor widens; state cites landlords under new rent-cap law; how Microsoft helps Israel’s surveillance program.

‘Performative male’ contest on Capitol Hill; TB cases allegedly spreading at Tacoma ICE jail; did Costco secretly share customers’ Rx info?

Pacific Science Center ending dinosaur exhibit; ICE frees Juanita school worker; tsunami advisory on WA coast; Dick’s heir’s initiative would criminalize sleeping outside in parts of King County.