Meet West Seattle’s ‘beaver detective;’ Seattle teachers authorize strike if contract talks fail; WA sues to stop new mail-ballot restrictions; Bill Gates calls for ‘a tax on AI automated systems.’

WA State Book Award nominees include a ‘Dumb Birds Field Guide;’ court blocks federal retaliations against King County; another sexual harassment suit against an SPD officer; city, world say ‘Goodbye Dolly.’

Author Rasheena Fountain melds environmentalism, blues; Canada tariffs’ potential local impact; over 50 new wildfires start around the Northwest; Microsoft tops list of corporate ‘tax avoiders.’

Local Black leaders still see the Central District as the community’s ‘home’; local DJ held by ICE for three weeks in Mass.; state House District 27 race narrows; ’Neumos security staff unionizes.’

Roberta Gregory’s ‘Bitchy!’ comix collection; Council nixes free school lunches for all; ICE still accessing WA driver’s-license data; two ex-Dem governors bashing ‘tax and spend’ as if they were Republicans.

Burlesque acrobatics by Tanya Gagné & co.; fired US attorney Roger Rogoff suing feds; injunction in WA’s suit against ‘prediction market’ Kalshi; Jimothy-mania goes national.

AI ‘time traveler’ vlogs from ‘grunge’ era; farm worker self-deports, leaving family behind; ‘high earners tax is working, despite whining from big business;’ Everett suit claims ‘decades’ of youth-detention sex abuse.

Indie film about a Seattle teen in the ‘grunge’ days; ICE arrests escalate locally; legal cannabis sales on the decline; central WA wildfire causes evacuation order, but also closes main highway out of town.

Memories of past Seattle civic activism (and past US birthdays); measuring World Cup’s local benefits; school superintendent Reykdal wants HS seniors to learn ‘life skills;’ the mystery of ‘Schrödinger’s senator.’

Obscure Seattle painter buys ad space at NYC subway stops; WA wins court fight to keep fed funding for wind power; tech visas’ role in area population growth; did MS unfairly exaggerate AI hype to pump stock price?

Seattle history-vignette series now all streaming; city closing Aurora side streets; Steve Ballmer to fund 10,000 affordable housing units; extremist Idaho preacher intends to ‘take over’ an eastern WA town.

Memoir by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil; the World Cup’s here (along with more ICE agents); WA sues feds over demands for voter lists; Benihana to open where Hooters used to be.

WA State Ferries at 75; White House wants to axe federal agency investigating Longview blast; did Sound Transit board members ‘screw Seattle’ in their latest cuts?; a call for an independent Cascadia.

Bill Nye honored at Madame Tussauds NYC; new teachers’-union head accused of abusing student; WA Legislative, Supreme Court races to watch; Seattle Times print edition gets even smaller.

1969 ‘People’s Wall’ in ‘landmarking’ process; shelter expansion progresses in City Council; Sound Transit chair proposes delaying rail to Ballard; remembering Ted Turner (and the Goodwill Games).