UPS returns to bike couriers (sort of); really dangerous volcanoes are right here; ex-Gov. Locke disputes Rossi’s ’03 budget claims; autumn truly arrives at long last.

South Park’s new pavement art; why our local taxes are so un-progressive; Sawant wants to revive the ‘head tax;’ a major NW art-scene figure dies.

UW scientists’ ‘brain interface’; sorting out the new minimum-wage study; Bellevue PD chief cleared of assault claims; the ‘city that had too much money’ (not us).

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?

More Paul Allen punditry; #MeToo lands at Seattle’s premier black church; Inslee scoffs at oil ports on military lands; fewer opioid deaths in SnoCo.

One of Seattle’s (and the world’s) most prominent people passes. Also: KeyArena razing starts; more deliberate far-right violence; dams vs. orcas.

A new book maps out Seattle’s past and present; who’s a ‘local’ writer really?; lower-end rents keep soaring; a ‘Christian’ confidence scheme is busted.

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.

Wannabe Seattle NHL team owners show off their planned practice rink complex; ‘Lid I-5’ folks show show off their proposals to ‘reclaim’ downtown lands; Susan Hutchison shows she’s a dittohead.

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

Mr. ‘Claymation’ dies; who cares about the NBA anymore?; Viaduct razing will be fast and loud; recalling the ‘Infamous Kitsap Ferry Riot’.

Ballard’s beautiful, doomed railway bridge; more Amazon pay-raise fallout; county to change deadly-force inquests; are flying cars on the way at last?

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.