Eastside light rail’s arrival (at last, partly); the Boeing crisis and US manufacturing’s ‘dark age;’ feds’ report about ICE jail death leaves out a lot; FTC claims Amazon regularly deleted internal messages.

Stories of young red-state clients of SPL’s ‘Books Unbanned’ program; Auburn police officer’s murder trial starts; more low-income tenants facing eviction; students planning big pro-Palestinian actions around the region today.

Historic mid-century Egan House for sale; state GOP convention descends into chaos; US Supreme Court to take on OR town’s draconian anti-homeless law; what light rail can do to/for the Eastside.

Beloved ‘Salish geek’ artist Jeffrey Veregge dies; City Council committee rejects affordable-housing scheme; Alaska Air officials optimistic after first-quarter losses; Seattle Storm opens its fancy new practice facility.

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.

Cherdonna Shinatra’s cabaret show at an auto garage; most library branches to close one day a week; Carnation neighbors vs. Remlinger Farms’ concert plans; is T-Mobile supporting a red-states AGs’ group?

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.

Storm legend, in new doc, states her case as Seattle sports’ GOAT; new SPD contract would include huge retroactive raises; outcry after Frye Art Museum curator’s layoff; Victor Steinbrueck’s little house to go for big bucks.

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.

City finally releases new Comprehensive Plan, with far less new housing than advocates want; Muni Court judge denies allegations of bias; Burien makes homelessness (more) illegal; did Legislative Dems sell out LGBTQ youth?

Local TV special on a Black theater company’s struggle to stay alive; anti-rent-gouging bill dead in Olympia; FTC to fight big grocery merger plan; why Seattleites mourn Bartell Drugs.

Fictional Seattles in film, TV, and games; Harrell’s ‘State of the City’ speech short on specifics; labor union supports big grocery merger; Amazon goes on the Dow Jones Industrials.

Linda’s Tavern marks 30 years (without Linda); Alaska Air flight attendants authorize strike; ‘Twin Peaks’ museum exhibit coming to North Bend next week; the Smith Tower was almost turned residential.