Late-model Mazda found at bottom of Ship Canal; potential teachers’ strike still looms, while state workers stage one-day walkout; remembering the guy from my high school who got a World Series ring.

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.’

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.

Columbia Funeral Home hopes to rebuild, one year later; ‘recall petition’ filed against Mayor Wilson; ‘millionaires tax’ repeal could cost WA $1.3 billion; pending home sales here ‘plunged’ this past year.

Few surprises in first primary-election results; WA vows to protect voter info from prying feds; alleged Spokane fire starter appears in court; ‘indoor agriculture’ startup goes under, while Zillow lays off hundreds.

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.

Seattle Art Fair & many ‘satellite’ exhibits; Council may OK universal free school lunches after all; WA ranks 50th in public wind, solar power; no, White House, Jimothy is a raccoon, not a MAGAt.

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.

Amanda Knox monologue show; Mayor Wilson praises World Cup’s impact; state pushes back on claims of ‘foreign election interference;’ Megan Rapinoe says anti-trans legislation’s about ‘distracting us.’

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.

Silicon Valley mogul, family aim to buy Seahawks; gray-whale deaths along Pacific coast now at 145; more wildfire evacuation orders in Eastern WA; another Boeing mid-flight near-disaster.

UW scientists, Samish Nation work to save threatened sea stars; Brown sues to stop fed homeless-funding cuts; Microsoft’s carbon emissions soar due to AI; Chelan wildfire destroys ‘Hobbit Inn.’

Indie film about a Seattle teen in the ‘grunge’ days; ICE arrests escalate locally; legal cannabis sales on the decline; central WA wildfire causes evacuation order, but also closes main highway out of town.

Seattle’s part of World Cup ends in triumph (off the field); Tukwila students’ tribute to deported classmate; Microsoft cutting 4,800 jobs (600 of them here); Wilson wants to fight rental ‘junk fees.’