Georgetown Records’ got a southern sister store; Seattle teachers OK a new contract deal; there’s a big lawsuit over big City Light bills; some local Domino’s outlets now ship pizzas by e-bike (only).

Women get to sing (for now) at St. Mark’s Compline Service; more on state Rep. Matt Shea’s ‘Bible war’ pals; Lorena Gonzalez wants to rein in local PAC spending; Amazon says it can sense your fear.

Landmine-sniffing rodents in Tacoma; City Council OK’s a soda-tax-specific fund; NW trees are drying up and dying out; UW gets a big grant to fight disinformation.

Northgate’s end days continue; where should surplus soda-tax money go?; more sewage leaks close more beaches; sellers of past-date food to discount groceries are convicted.

Seattle inventors make a hi-tech fake coffee; other inventors make safer but costlier helmets for high school football; a sad tragedy on Pine Street; is King County helping ICE after promising not to?

Shorty’s loses its longtime space but stays alive; KCTS/Crosscut workers want a union; is ICE using WA driver’s-license pics?; Eyman’s latest initiative fizzles.

A MAD-dening announcement; Children’s Hospital ORs reopen; what’s not in Seattle Schools’ new native-history curriculum; the southern resident orcas aren’t where they should be.

Lots more oil tankers are bound for the Sound; hate crimes outside a Renton church; more Meinert/Mecca reaction; would you trust your financial privacy to Facebook?

David Meinert to buy the Mecca Cafe; local co. to buy Sports Illustrated; onetime immigrant-detention advocate’s in town; Amazon talks back to more critics.

Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

Bruce Pavitt’s cheap-food memories; this humble li’l e-missive’s fourth birthday; a rights dispute over a classic Seattle novel; Bush Garden’s ex-owner doesn’t want its building saved.

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Comparing rival fashion-art exhibits; a historic restaurant space reopens; more measles-outbreak effects; 50 years of getting stuck in traffic on I-5.

BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.

Sea lions: threat or menace?; scooter-shares might finally come to Seattle; how a global criminal helped kill a Seattle restaurant; it’s too darn hot.