Local author follows an ‘indicator species;’ City Council gives Wilson two months to decide Homelessness Authority’s fate; Ferguson won’t suspend cap-and-trade to cut gas prices; longtime Seattle Opera boss RIP.

WA State Ferries at 75; White House wants to axe federal agency investigating Longview blast; did Sound Transit board members ‘screw Seattle’ in their latest cuts?; a call for an independent Cascadia.

Bush Garden karaoke bar reopening after a decade; Sound Transit board approves big project delays; Denny Blaine nudity foes claim proof of public sex acts there; more bodies found at Longview paper-mill blast site.

Local popular historian Paul Dorpat RIP; cleanup, recovery continue at Longview mill blast site; possible ‘white collar slowdown’ could hurt local economy; Dan Strauss’s plan to save light rail to Ballard.

Big galleries plan Seattle Art Fair rival; ‘trans refugee’ advocates march for city support; Social Housing Developer buys 150-unit building; Wild Waves water park’s final season has started.

New musical on pioneering Black woman pilot; Boeing helps fund MAGA official’s reality show; US Supreme Court may ‘review’ WA Legislative districts; Starbucks makes major marketing mistake in S. Korea.

‘Lady Rainier’ statue, between I-5 and Sound Transit yard; UW researchers wanted to ‘train AI’ on preschoolers; GOP wants to stack WA high court against ‘millionaires tax;’ UW stabbing suspect may have stalked another student.

Getting Vonda N. McIntyre’s last novel published; remembering the slain trans UW student Juniper Blessing; Seattle schools top national scores (as a whole); happy Cascadia (Mount St. Helens) Day!

Lori Matsukawa’s new memoir; LGBTQ folks fleeing to WA from TX, other red states; UW stabbing victim remembered as her alleged slayer turns himself in; GOP group wants judge to throw out Legislative district map.

May Day rally/march draws thousands; Ezell’s Chicken talks of going national; bicyclist who struck a car in a ‘protected bike lane’ gets big city payout; Ooh! Ooh! Meanie mayor talks non-reverently about the rich!

Black Film Fest is here; two Silicon Valley moguls rumored to each want the Seahawks; Councilmembers propose ban on new in-city data centers; multiple stabbings at Tacoma’s Foss High.

Group bike ride as performance art; UW student arrested for drumming near Turning Point event; judge blocks WA law regulating sheriffs; the stark truth behind the Supreme Court’s latest horror.

Photog captures new life in long-logged forests; Homelessness Authority can’t find $13 million; Starbucks staffers worry over company’s future in Seattle; parents rally to prevent school closures.

Ex-Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur’s memoir; Bothell cops accused of anti-Asian violence in massage-parlor raids; candy maker Brown & Haley merges with China firm; Starbucks to open big Nashville office.

More on David Lewis’s book ‘The Burning of Moses Seattle;’ far-right men’s group to hold rally at the Gorge; Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe splitting up; civilian crisis responders don’t like SPOG restrictions on their work.