Mural of Seattle icons done all in pencil; Harrell details parts of his big downtown plan; Soundgarden members reach settlement with Chris Cornell’s widow; local Navy vet runs pro-Putin propaganda account.

Crowdfunding drive saves Couth Buzzard Books (for now); pro-gun lobby plans to fight assault-weapons ban; homeless folk now in hotels may get kicked out as funds expire; remembering Elijah Lewis’s deeds and words.

Portland-made ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’ wins Oscar; SPD trainer’s support of anti-gay policies; Sawant’s support of PCC labor actions; phony Safeway employee accused of stealing $700,000 worth of crab from a warehouse.

Marking 22 years since the Nisqually quake (and 23 years since an infamous dot-com commercial); the sometimes-brutal toll of Amazon warehouse work; food banks prepare for a slash to federal SNAP benefits.

Fun local, indie museums; ex-Boeing CEO’s investment startup suddenly closes; Tacoma LGBTQ ‘safe space’ store closes after ‘violent attacks;’ does anyone expect scientific accuracy in a Marvel movie?

Vintage store enters the ‘metaverse;’ WA schools are now ‘majority minority;’ feds say city can’t just sit on unspent City Center Collector trolley grants; UW researchers say ‘love’ really is a drug.

A prominent public art installation’s now half-disappeared; Colorado judge disses Starbucks’ labor policies; bill in Olympia would let strip clubs sell booze; report claims Russell Wilson’s charity gives out less than half its income.

Papercut artist Nikki McClure’s ‘slices’ of real life; Seattle Center picked to run new waterfront park; more area tech layoffs; Starbucks orders office workers back.

Bill Gates and others developing neo-nuclear power concepts; Inslee gives marching orders to Legislature; City Council votes to preserve ex-Seafirst bank branch building on Denny; some students disagree with Seattle Schools’ suit against social media giants.

Windstorms, floods wreak havoc around the region; why Southwest Airlines is so messed up; why crabs are the ‘canaries’ in the ‘coal mine’ of Alaska fisheries; are next year’s Mariners already doomed?

Maps show different communities’ carbon outputs; Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer acquitted of making false accusations against a Black newspaper carrier; Inslee proposes a $70 billion, two-year budget; will electric cars kill the radio star?

Native American Heritage Month-themed art shows; still more city budget details; free home COVID tests to end; human programmers sue Microsoft over ‘self-writing’ AI coding project.

Second set of ballots doesn’t change city, state races; Amazon’s stock value drops $1 trillion since year’s start; Paul Allen’s private art collection auctioned for a total of $1.5 billion; Ingraham High School shooting suspect could face a murder charge.

MOHAI’s big AI exhibit; friends, neighbors mourn Central District community advocate fatally shot near his business; El Corazon building (again) threatened by redevelopment; waiting for the cleansing rains to arrive at last.

Studying (and saving) ‘mid-century modern’ apartments; Chamber of Commerce poll shows support for housing; why crews sometimes let wildfires keep burning; two more days of smoky skies.