Wallingford’s Changes gay bar at 35; Seattle author Neal Stephenson’s 1995 predictions about AI; bill to raise local property-tax cap dies in Legislature; SPD female employees allege harassment and discrimination.

A pop up African American museum in Columbia City this month; a jury award in the case of Children’s Hospital mold infections; kids at a Seattle daycare secretly got fed melatonin; Ristorante Machiavelli’s suddenly closing.

Video game teaches mega-earthquake survival skills; repeal of ‘lewd conduct’ ban in bars passes state Senate; Starbucks told to rehire labor-organizing barista; WSP officers thought woman with ‘bleeding brain’ was just drunk.

Marita Dingus’s big sculptures made from recycled stuff; initiative launched to fund Seattle social housing; feds say missing bolts led to 737 MAX 9 debacle; 10 years since the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win.

Standing relics of Seattle’s vice-laden past; national site likes Seattle & Spokane’s downtown efforts; ex-owner of Tula’s Jazz Club dies; fighting back against the ‘racial justice backlash.’

Local conceptual artist’s documentations of futility; Ezell’s Famous Chicken marks 40 years (without Ezell); Chateau Ste. Michelle plans big developments (but no more winemaking on site); could end of ‘lewd conduct’ rules help strippers?

Trying to solve civil-rights leader’s slaying 55 years later; Liquor & Cannabis Board pauses ‘lewd conduct’ enforcement; bill to rein in rent-gouging dies in Legislature; OR GOP lawmakers who walked out can’t run again.

Touring play’s exuberant ‘meta’ take on ‘Don Quixote;’ two School Board members resign; Councilmember Nelson opposes even-year elections; AI ‘deepfakes,’ abuse, and disinformation.

Music-scene outreach to supply the homeless; Tacoma man convicted at 18, out of prison at 43, could be sent back; ex-WA First Lady Nancy Evans dies; ‘three girls’ caught on cam vandalizing cars in Bellevue.

Play, book explore the roots of a NW-reared art-music legend; Alaska Air wants Boeing to pay losses due to 737 MAX 9 troubles; big layoffs at REI and Microsoft; King County landfill’s got lots of arsenic.

City’s $10 million settlement with CHOP-era police abuse victims; Boeing reportedly ‘improperly reinstalled’ 737 MAX 9 door plug, while Cantwell calls for hearings; no more ‘trucks, trucks, and more trucks.’

40 years of ‘the computer for the rest of us;’ center-right Council picks center-right Tanya Woo; SPOG VP dissed for ‘joking’ about woman killed by police car; yet more 737 troubles.

Misadventures in AI-generated e-tail product blurbs; Harrell imposes (almost) citywide hiring freeze, while most City Council Position 2 nominees pledge fealty to him; legislation would ban police from ‘hog-tying suspects.’

A Tacoma-based ‘Muslim Khmer’ artist’s provocative installations; ‘SNL’ makes a spoof Alaska Airlines ad; Sens. Murray & Cantwell describe a horrific post-‘Roe’ landscape; a beloved Seattle music-scene figure dies.

Auburn company’s historic role in donut making; the ‘former guy’ stays on WA Presidential ballot for now; winter mayhem continues to our north and south; light-rail maintenance disruption proves even more disruptive.