Funnying-up local scenery (without Photoshopping); JCPenney leaves Seattle; a victory for pipeline protesters; a karaoke-related bar stabbing in Madison Park.

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.

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.

Seattle’s art and performance scenes are fighting back; protests over KEXP’s axing of protesters’ favorite show; a local angle on the Kavanaugh scandal; Amazon’s anti-union video surfaces.

Matt Manweller sort-of quits Legislature; Mayor Durkan plans an austerity budget during boom times; Bellingham Fire Dept. trains on a dead body; ex-UW cartoonist makes good.

Saving Beacon Hill’s Garden House; men talk about #MeToo; eviction horror stories; can the tech biz solve our region’s tech-biz-created problems?

City Council committee OKs big UW growth plan (with conditions); win for Hanford workers; setback for ICE-jail hunger strikers; A LOT more Amazon Go stores on the way.

Whose land are we really on?

Is climate change already inevitable?

Why is autumn air so wonderful?

A ‘non-binary,’ oft-cross-dressing YouTube star; viaduct’s death date announced; Safeco Field subsidy OK’d; my new book’s already a hit.