Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

Nordstrom’s leaving Northgate; a freak ambulance crash; where can two young-adult shelters go?; why should we save the Showbox?

Bush Garden lives!; the Showbox may live!; Seattle keeps growing (but more slowly); no, affordable housing can’t wait.

Comparing rival fashion-art exhibits; a historic restaurant space reopens; more measles-outbreak effects; 50 years of getting stuck in traffic on I-5.

Remembering the Chinese railroad builders 150 years later; Boeing says it’s got a 737 MAX fix ready; why Puget Sound’s orange in spots; another Mt. St. Helens anniversary.

BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.

Bill Nye explains climate change with funny props; big business has a city-council takeover plan; a legal win for backyard cottages; robots will pick apples and box up Amazon stuff.

Sea lions: threat or menace?; scooter-shares might finally come to Seattle; how a global criminal helped kill a Seattle restaurant; it’s too darn hot.

Hardwick’s Swap Shop to close (really this time); crane victim’s family to sue; homeless numbers drop (maybe); the boats that evoke a pre-techie Seattle.

Making room for light-rail tracks next to I-5; Russell Wilson gets a big pay raise; the Legislature sprints to the finish; two newspaper wakes, a decade (and a month) apart.

A local vintage-wear merchant’s newest comeback; Boeing’s CEO again vows to make things right; Bezos divorce details; one surprisingly positive result of the KOMO homeless-special ado.

How will Boeing survive this crisis (or can it)?; the City Council’s final upzone vote nears; Huskies & Zags both choke in conference title games; Howard Schultz isn’t really ‘from the projects’.

A grunge photo exhibit in an Amazon office building; Jay Inslee in Iowa; the Lava Lounge block’s still threatened; ‘Howard Schultz’s biggest haters.’

Gov. Inslee’s White House run starts; a big Durkan/Sawant spat; Sound Transit funding’s still not safe; rents here aren’t rising AS fast as before.

The Symphony’s new hi-tech performance space opens soon; more on the HALA deal’s current status; will the Art Institute of Seattle survive?; did Amazon have an illegal ‘in’ for a big Pentagon cloud-computing deal?