Plans for new, enhanced Peace Park statue; ‘big bill’ would put 4.5 million WA acres for sale; farms here can’t find enough workers; two die when police chase ends at Edmonds ferry dock.

RFK Jr.’s spam texts to Bill Nye; ‘improved survey method’ means higher homeless count; Tacoma school shooting injures one student; Amazon CEO predicts AI will cost more corporate jobs.

Huge ‘No Kings’ protest crowds here and nationally; ICE removals cause empty seats at graduations; more 787 India crash fallout; bee-colony collapse threatens WA crops.

Kshama Sawant running for congress; Cathy Moore quitting City Council; city attorney candidate Nathan Rouse vowing to rein in police guild’s power; feds create, then drop, list of ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions.

Graphic novel of gay Asians in Seattle; Filipina UW lab tech ordered released by ICE; MS foresees AI changing the whole Internet; county assessor Wilson asked to resign after restraining order.

Spokane fundamentalists rally again, SPD arrests only counter-demonstrators again; school district budget balanced (for now); wildfire season starts; ‘thousands of jobs disappear’ in the region.

The latest cute-vehicle craze from Japan; Ferguson announces joint anti-tariff suit; AT&T buying Lumen’s fiber unit; College Inn Pub closing (again).

Barnes & Noble taking over University Book Store’s ‘trade books’ dept.; Ferguson signs budget; tax bills; Nordstrom’s ‘go private’ deal closes; ya gotta be rich to even rent in today’s Seattle.

Local doc on historic ‘70s gay disco; Ferguson slams DC regime’s ‘assault on the US Constitution;’ feds may drop charges against Boeing in 737 MAX crashes; Elijah Lewis’s killer sentenced.

Microsoft fetes 50 years by laying off thousands; state, transit orgs. sue against federal spending cuts; Boeing settles with whistleblower’s survivors; ‘mental health crisis center’ plan faces neighborhood opposition.

Nathan Vass’s second book of bus-driving tales; Air Force One ‘gift’ from Qatar and its discontents; clergy-abuse survivors support new WA law; average Seattle home prices rise above $1 million.

Light rail expands into Redmond; a lot fewer Blue Jays fans showed up in town; man jumps to death from I-5 bridge while running from cops; Ken Jennings defends Seattle’s honor.

Rally defends suspended UW activists; ICE spying on Spokane immigration activist; Bill Gates plans to donate his fortune, wind down Gates Foundation in 20 years; the all-American (and apparently anti-MAGA) new pope.

Tacoma Art Museum’s modern takes on old Japanese art; King County warned of a ‘federal government that doesn’t exist anymore;’ UW suspends 21 student protesters; what ‘Victory in Europe’ 80 years ago means in the present day.

SIFF short depicts Native Hawaiians economically exiled in the NW; protesters accused of $1 million damage to UW building; two more City Council candidates announce; MAGA claims a Seattle housing project’s too ‘woke.’