Seattle’s newest lesbian bar; cops caught laughing about another cop running over someone; family-friendly shelter units are especially scarce; saving what’s left of Seattle’s historic Black neighborhood.

Deaf playwright’s horror-comedy; QFC (and some Safeways) to be sold off under grocery-merger plan; landlords sued over alleged software-enabled rent collusion; Bob Ferguson becomes one of 11 (so far) announced candidates for governor.

Costco’s 40th anniversary; planned RV safe-lot site could instead become pickleball courts; Kroger and Albertsons plan to sell a lot of local stores if they’e allowed to merge; another Bartell Drugs location to close.

Mutual Fish Co. closing after 76 years; judge opts not to totally end SPD consent decree; Wallingford house fire ruled a homicide-suicide case; suit claims UW Medicine lost a patient’s bladder tumor.

Bumbershoot comeback as a Seattle landmark event; Huskies start final Pac-12 season in a rout; Elysian Brewing workers go union; seeking reasons for a fatal Wallingford house fire.

Bumbershoot’s attempted back-to-basics comeback under new mgmt.; Mayor Harrell really tries (awkwardly) to impress ethnic journalists; e-bike ‘lending libraries’ are coming to WA; a hydroplane racing legend dies.

Will the PAX video-game expo outdraw the revived Bumbershoot?; late-summer COVID wave; some non-teaching Seattle Schools staff could strike; fish are ‘dying in droves’ on a Vancouver Island river.

Critics question rollout strategy of Seattle company’s Disney collectible card game; Cal Anderson memorial tree replaced in Oly; WA’s next no-longer-affordable place to live; Tacoma as the next great radical hope.

Cal Anderson’s memorial tree suddenly removed from state capitol campus; wildfire smoke’s coming back here; 22 counties sue DSHS over ‘mental health failures;’ Republicans won’t believe Seattle’s not a burnt-down hellhole.

Spokane preacher prays for fire to ‘consume’ city (with its mayor on stage); King County considers new jail with ‘solar canopy;’ Seattle, DoorDash settle over labor violations; remembering a cancer scientist and competitive-dance organizer.

Captive orca Tokitae dies in Miami; fires scorch parts of Eastern WA while Seattle gets smoke; Julio Rodriguez and Mariners on a massive roll; after a ferry-building contract’s collapse, now what?

Kamala Harris talks in Seattle (and Dolly Parton in Tacoma); heat wave leads to stage 2 burn ban; ‘quick fix’ to Seattle drug-possession law turned down; the ice cream flavor you never knew you wanted.

Vital, historic African-American art from a sorority’s donated collection; almost every D1 council candidate endorses Megan Costa; new state drug law starts; one threatened north-end tree survives, one doesn’t.

The rise of POC-centric arts and crafts fairs; serious heat (and wildfire smoke) arriving; Seattle Muslim leader says he’s unfairly on a secret FBI ‘watchlist;’ Northwest volunteers helping the Maui rescue effort.

AI-written travel books with bot-posted rave reviews; historic Wedgwood tree saved; ‘stabilization workgroup’ proposes several new city taxes (not all of them legally available); right-wingers want to close one WA county’s only library.