C-ID merchants feel left out from World Cup business, while Monday’s match will be Seattle’s biggest sports event ever; a few thousand more Microsoft layoffs; Homelessness Authority losing most of its authority.

A ‘Seattle hip-hop walking map;’ WA resident, deported to South Sudan, now in his native Vietnam; city considering removing SR 99 through South Park; Seattle has 20% more ‘unsheltered’ people than in 2024.

Alexandra Lozano’s empire of false hopes to immigrants; Eddie Vedder (and Chicago kids) perform at Obama Center opening; SAM workers vote to form union; Seattle’s greatest spectacle ever?

Wall of Sound Records closing after 36 years; Seattle World Cup debut a ‘win’ for the city; ICE immediately deports Honduran siblings here for medical care; millionaires spending big to defeat ‘millionaires tax.’

Memoir by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil; the World Cup’s here (along with more ICE agents); WA sues feds over demands for voter lists; Benihana to open where Hooters used to be.

Comedy-club chain buys Crocodile; White House approval rating hits new local now; 10,000 apply for 75 subsidized ‘social housing’ units; allegations of abuse, slavery at Bellevue ‘OnlyFans house.’

Projecting ‘TAX THE RICH’ on Zuckerberg’s yacht; Amazon hits $1 on Fortune 500; gay SPD officers sue city over discrimination; county’s ‘supportive permanent housing’ funds at risk of federal cuts.

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.

Vintage flight-attendant fashions at Museum of Flight; all Longview blast victims recovered; three Spokane ICE protesters convicted; Ballard light-rail advocates aren’t giving up.

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.

UW architecture students document what Seattle lost to I-5; Israel abducts WA men in Gaza aid flotilla; some Kitsap ‘non-emergency’ help calls will go to AI; Longview school admin accused of covering up student abuse.

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.

Teen’s anti-suicide clothing line; Seattle Housing Authority buildings derided as ‘unsafe;’ unionized REI workers call for anniversary-sale boycott; Seattle factory being built to create ‘autonomous warships.’

‘Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet’ becoming a musical; campaign watchdog files complaint about Let’s Go Washington; Microsoft fires its Israeli head; could Seahawks buyer want a new stadium?