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

Brighten your winter day with cargo-container art; a (too simple?) solution to Hanford waste; City Council candidate doesn’t officially live in town.

A Christmas tree ornament for our time; tribes vs. oil pipeline redux; new City Council candidates; what’s in a (potato chip) name?

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

Keeping King Donut-Teriyaki-Laundromat ‘a real place’; a legal victory for MHA upzones; a Bitcoin ‘mining’ data co. files for Chapter 11; remembering JFK after 55 years.

Amazon’s new campuses and their discontents; can a big new methanol plant lead to less carbon emission?; what we don’t know about killed and missing indigenous women.

Amazon admits what we’ve known about dual HQ2s; is Seattle’s loss also NY & VA’s loss?; big Starbucks layoffs; City Council approves Seattle Police labor contract.

The sunken ships of Lake Union; Howard Schultz for Prez?; an ex-employee’s claim against the Mariners’ management; walking as a feminist issue; remembering Stan Lee.

A vital local mag meets an untimely end; thousands rally to defend the rule of law; a partial Ride the Ducks settlement’s announced; the Sounders run out of miracles.

Local artist revisits awful comics hero-sidekicks; Kim Schrier wins and other election fallout; was there never going to be a co-equal Amazon HQ?

The original Shorty’s has held its last pinball tourney; Amazon may pick two ‘HQ2’s; the ‘Lid I-5’ drive gets some major support; one last (desperate) election plea.

Protesting the Big A’s ties to ICE; the homeless crisis sparks violent incidents; a Yakama tribal leader’s not allowed at the US Supreme Court; will HQ2 end the local housing mega-boom?

Local reactions to the Pittsburgh terror attack; how would you spend Bezos’ billions?; faulty light-rail escalators to be replaced (eventually); there might be plastic in your clams.

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.