Inslee’s presidential hopes get clearer; Jeff Bezos goes to ‘South Park’; a local trial focuses on the rights of kids in immigration court; ‘the Hitler analogy’ gets a modern-day update.

Classic Ballard diner suddenly shutters; useful things made from Boeing fiber leftovers; cop retaliates against man who’d cussed at him; Amazon loves pomposity.

A rich tech guy’s fancy food photos; transit’s more popular than ever here; anti-injection-site initiative halted; what’s REALLY behind Seattle’s big changes?

UW dental faculty denounce budget cuts; we’ll know today about NHL in Seattle; judge’s police-reform questions; state tenant-rights bill coming.

Making a statement about a disappearing community; home prices still fall; state’s foster-care crisis gets worse; another City Council vacancy looms.

Lummi carvers warning the nation about endangered orcas; (horrific) local angles in the feds’ climate report; hunger-striking ICE inmate dies; weather getting serious.

Google workers protest what they call a toxic corporate culture; DSHS is ruled liable for foster kids’ safety; Chris Cornell’s widow sues his doctor.

Making Dungeons & Dragons less mono-gendered; the death of a local jazz legend; prayers for healing and compassion at a Seattle synagogue; a bike-share company wants to add cars.

Loving the Viaduct in its last months; state Supreme Court says kids shouldn’t get life in prison without parole; can a smartphone app help keep people off drugs?

The state Supreme Court nixes the death penalty; a local cartoonist’s poignant school-shooting verse; the stock market as a fickle god; a Seattle themed shopping plaza opens in Japan.

Sonics nostalgia on display; more national political nightmares; towns where Amazon’s good for physical retailers.

Amazon’s sudden conversion to $15 an hour for everyone; Seattle’s a step closer to NHL hockey; how kids in different Seattle neighborhoods have different chances in life.

Remembering the Pioneer Square underground ‘comfort station’; City Light’s new boss has another mess to clean up; saving historic video; there’s a new plague of prank 911 calls.

A proud holdout dive bar; still more local Kavanaugh and gender-justice fallout; e-scooters are a big hit in Tacoma; putting logs into a river to help the fish.

Archie McPhee’s latest novelty junk food; heroism and spoiled privilege on display in DC; a plan for tiny art spaces; a petition would rescind the county’s Safeco Field subsidies.