Dept. store Santa photos’ local origin; gifted-education task force’s suggestions; Safeway & Stratolaunch now connected; another year-end honor for Megan Rapinoe & co.

A corporate buyout means New Seasons Markets is leaving Seattle; a photographer’s last goodbye to the Viaduct; cops attack anti-fascist protesters at Westlake; Sea-Tac makes rules for facial-recognition scanners.

City Council approves big aquarium expansion; 737 MAX ‘whistleblower’ to testify; Megan Rapinoe gets another big honor; a plea to cartoonist David Horsey.

US Rep. Denny Heck will retire; Pocket Theater space will close; two local restaurant empires will shrink; first Native American justice will join state Supreme Court.

KOMO weather legend Steve Pool retires; hotel owner/ambassador Gordon Sondland tells on just about everybody; Children’s Hospital staff complaints about mold go way back; a podcaster ‘Indigenizes’ Seattle.

Supersonic jets (at least prototypes) could fly here again; a Showbox buyout offer (terms undisclosed); a possible Children’s Hospital mold infection case from 2005; parents of special-needs kids are advised to move out of the state.

After a decade, nothing will happen to a speeder-prone intersection near a middle school; Children’s Hospital’s mold issue goes way back; SeaTac’s city council gets less white; ‘telecom bro’ CEO John Legere’s leaving T-Mobile.

Remembering the ’87 “punk riot” on a Seattle ferry; report chides Amazon delivery contractors (and Amazon); Planned Parenthood of the NW goes into two ‘red states’; will people fly the 737 MAX again?

Local military vets sing for Seattle Opera; why didn’t Shaun Scott get more progressive campaign $?; Rep. Denny Heck foresees GOP budging on impeachment; our city’s the ‘gloomiest’!

AB-InBev gulps down Washington’s pioneer microbrewer; a US family with a ‘Case Against Boeing’ (and a famous relative); the next City Council might explore new wealth taxes; hockey’s most famous face gets pulled.

Was a major local crime story just a staged hoax?; could burning trash save King County millions?; could (and would) Southwest take over Alaska Airlines?; it’s your last day to turn in your ballot.

AEG wants out of running Bumbershoot; outdoor-wear maven Gert Boyle dies; the Snoqualmie Tribe buys Salish Lodge and nearby lands; our long local political trudge is almost over.

The cost of hatchery salmon (and hence of dams); Starbucks to host voter events; UW College Republicans lose their charter; long live Dia de los Muertos.

A giant corn-maze map of WA; a senator wants Boeing’s CEO to quit; NYT notes Amazon’s local campaign $; author lauds Hanford whistleblowers.

Boeing CEO’s contrition to Congress; Sounders go to their third title game in four years; Pioneer Square buildings to get way-gentrified; a tiny-home-village turf war apparently ends badly for all.