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.

Cosmic Crisp apple shows up in stores; ’60 Minutes’ airs its Seattle-homelessness story; Northgate’s lonely last holiday; more WTO protest memories.

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.

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.

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.

Women’s sports and the continuing fight for equity and respect; police chief Best’s (possibly taking-sides) Tweet; Muilenberg goes to Congress; wanna buy a geoduck (not enough do)?

A BC Sikh leftist may be Canada’s next ‘kingmaker’; area rivers are flooding early and big; a big Boeing exec shuffle; Ferguson fights to keep federal clean-water rules.

A Wing Luke Museum exhibit explores Asian Americans and the ‘beauty myth’; anti-Sawant flyers sent to other councilmembers’ districts; Amazon’s not the only big PAC money source; someone at Boeing knew the MAX had troubles.

Pics of climate change’s regional results; don’t be afraid of the ‘Big Dark’; a big judgment in the Mercer crane crash; Cooke Aquaculture’s damaged fish farm to reopen.

A local artist links racial & climate crises; a WA sheriff has to give up his guns due to a protection order; Eyman insults an un-amused Seattle City Council; are online games (and online everything) meant to be addictive? (Well, duh…)

Two Seattle-connected people (one of whom I’ve known) win MacArthur grants; Felix Hernandez will start his last game; McCormick & Schmicks owner to buy Restaurants Unlimited; climate protesters are ordered to disperse from the state capitol.

A big airline’s sudden demise isn’t the worst of Boeing’s problems; a UW report exposes ICE atrocities; automation threatens a whole lot of WA jobs; a Seattle high school cuts history to save STEM.

A new novel depicts the early WA logging scene; Dow Constantine wants more films made here; ‘bronze birch borer’ beetles feast on our trees; you say ‘micromobility,’ I say ‘bikes.’