Ferry crash and truck explosion (at separate places) snarl traffic; the heat wave now comes with a side order of air pollution; Amazon loses $2 billion (Wall St. loves it); Cranium creator dies of COVID.

Inquest jury sides with officers who killed Charleena Lyles; redevelopment threatens Wedgwood Broiler; Childhaven to leave Seattle, KCTS/Crosscut to move into its building; ‘Lid I-5’ movement gets an important endorsement.

What if the monorail expansion had been built?; more local officials share their own abortion stories; Charleena Lyles shooting inquest goes to jury; local ex-punk rocker’s White Center burger joint closing after 14 years.

Pix of travelers returning to local attractions; Amazon workers want company to stop donating to abortion foes; Amtrak will go to Vancouver BC again; what does July 4 mean in a time of internal threats against freedom?

Lava Lounge building burns; Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic closing Yesler site; Pac-12 loses both LA schools; whether or not to celebrate this July 4.

Seattle’s vast, post-lockdown music scene(s); Charleena Lyles’ father’s emotional inquest testimony; Amazon limits ‘Plan B’ pill orders; why we can’t have more tourist-beloved shopping alleys.

Locally-made web series depicts a high school gay/straight alliance club; first little-kids’ COVID vaccines get injected; city’s JumpStart payroll tax survives in state court; Amazon’s top-exec ranks get even whiter. 

Storm superstar to retire after 19 seasons; Seattle will get some World Cup soccer matches; KEXP’s boss will become SIFF’s boss; using data to find biased comments in employee reviews. 

Internet Explorer’s official end; Starbucks ‘happens to’ fire another union organizer; alleged bicycle thief tries to escape on I-5 bridge; what has, will, and won’t be back this summer.

Library/UW VR project shows how sea-level rise will affect the Duwamish; what the city/county ‘child care bonus’ will really pay workers; race-bias stats among King Co. deputies; Langley’s got an official Conan O’Brien trash can.

Vito’s is closed indefinitely after a massive apt. fire upstairs; SPU grads give its prez Pride flags at commencement; more on the attempted Patriot Front violence in Idaho; timber baron George Weyerhaeuser RIP.

Cobain guitar sells for millions to an NFL team owner; Schick Shadel Hospital to close; Amazon’s reportedly cutting back on warehouse space; an anniversary wake for the Cafe Racer shooting victims. 

Amazon Labor Union’s head as a style icon?; Councilmember Tammy Morales and others share their abortion stories; Cleveland High students walk out to protest principal’s firing; a ‘Star Trek’ lesson about modern politics.

Columbia City Theater preserved; report says most calls to SPD aren’t crime-related; local theater legend John Aylward dies; Iceland’s prez, in Seattle, pleads for apps/devices that speak his language.

Memories of Mount St. Helens and the future KEXP; suicides and unknowns at the King County Jail; was the China 737 crash deliberate?; local tech employees are still mostly ‘bros.’