Everett airport puts ‘Seattle’ in its name; City Council passes industrial-zoning package; MS sees ‘massive opportunity’ in AI tech for business; DoorDash database mistakes a Tacoma home for a Popeyes.

Local video game incorporates farm-simulation with recipes; Everett co.’s Titanic-wreckage submersible presumed lost; Homelessness Authority workers claim a ‘toxic work environment;’ plans show Lusty Lady building to be razed.

ChatGPT-written song lyrics are about what you’d expect; SPD killings rose during federal oversight; youth mental-health crisis viewed as a business opportunity; did Jeffrey Epstein try to blackmail Bill Gates?

Ms star Julio Rodriguez gets his own cereal; Amazon shareholders nix activist motions (again); can the orca Tokitae survive bring brought home?; seven City Council races, 45 candidates.

Indigenous artist paints an Alaska Airlines plane; Seattle population’s growing again; a new federal program hopes to help solve homelessness here and in five other places; happy (day after) Mt. St. Helens Day.

Seahawks use AI art prompts to make promo imagery; doctors fleeing post-Roe Idaho; Kraken in another playoff Game 7; what should be the CInerama’s new name?

Club-night promoters try for ‘safer space’ policy; Chinatown-Intl. District declared ‘endangered;’ Weyerhaeuser HQ workers told to come back on-site; what might be behind the big supermarket-takeover plan.

Backyard cottage program for the homeless touts success; guilty plea in CHOP killing; Microsoft exec says AI ‘could cause real damage;’ Kraken owners want contract to replace Memorial Stadium.

Painter Alfredo Arreguin dies at 88; more scrambling about drug-possession laws; King County settles with e-cig maker Juul; NLRB claims Starbucks ‘refused to negotiate fairly’ at unionized cafes.

Rachel’s Ginger Beer founder dies; ‘crisis care centers’ levy passing; gun advocates already challenging WA’s new assault-weapons ban; bacterial outbreak kills four Virginia Mason patients.

Olympia counter-protest defends WA’s new trans-youth protection law, as Legislative session winds down; father of police-shooting victim sues SPD; remembering the victims of old Native boarding schools.

Ferry runs aground at Bainbridge; I-90 Bridge light-rail tracks need replacing; major COVID-closed restaurant to finally reopen; tech cos. try to hire back their ex-employees—as temps without benefits.

Art/music/DJ space opens in a Ballard storage building; Inslee has the state stock up on one ‘abortion drug;’ why local homelessness persists after all these years; Jon Shirley and the Paul Allen Foundation donate big on the arts.

Jinkx Monsoon, from Seattle drag stages to ‘Doctor Who’; community mourns Elijah Lewis; Bainbridge special-needs student allegedly locked in a police car; state suing Google over online-ad monopoly.

Art projects (with far different public reactions) in Everett and Lakewood; Howard Schultz tells Senate committee he’s not a ‘union buster;’ Kirkland megachurch accused of forcing workers to ‘tithe’ back part of their pay; some sports pundits predict big things for the Ms this season.