Varsity Theater closing; Ferguson plugs millionaire tax and bashes MAGA regime; White House threatens all fed funding to ‘sanctuary’ cities and states; prosecutors won’t charge ex-Harrell aide after allegations of sexual assault.

New musical tracks a gender and family journey; Legislative session starts with threats of big cuts; anti-ICE protests (and proposed actions) continue; 49ers to play Seahawks in playoffs.

Massive Monkees’ dance studio adds cafe; more federal arrests/shootings in Seattle, Portland bring more protests, responses; quarterback Demond Williams Jr. not leaving UW after all; ‘Can Katie Wilson build a movement?’

Anti-ICE protests follow Minneapolis shooting death; police trainers accused of harassing female recruits; development plan’s breakup might save Wedgwood Broiler; UW star quarterback enters transfer portal.

County Council honors Ken Jennings; state retracts carbon-reduction claims; juvenile detention sex-abuse suits could bankrupt Pierce County; five years since the attempted domestic coup.

Katie Wilson’s swearing-in speech; local reactions/protests follow Venezuela invasion; critics of Microsoft’s AI obsession call it ‘Microslop’; Justice Mary Yu retires from state Supreme Court.

Art by loved ones of the incarcerated; city buys Talaris property in Laurelhurst; Bush Garden reopening at new site after two-year delay; proposing a ‘180 degree turn’ approach to the climate crises.

Local Chanukah ceremony after Sydney shooting; Green River levee break causes temporary ‘Get Out’ order; alleged pimp crashes SUV into kombucha taproom; tech giants ‘offloading the risks of the AI boom.’

MOHAI explores intersections of women, queer-lib, and motorcycles; Seattle’s soul-food queen dies; Wild Waves gets one more year; over 100,000 may evacuate region’s ‘catastrophic’ floods.

Another light-rail expansion opening day; Sen. Murray speaks for a man mauled by an ‘ICE dog’ during arrest; local rents rose 30+ percent in just 5 years; waiting for the big rain.

Light rail expands in south King County; city to double aid to ‘affordable’ housing providers; local Somali community reacts to racist White House remarks; ‘everyone in Seattle hates AI.’

Personal notes get translated into fabric in local artist’s exhibit; WA defends voter privacy and Planned Parenthood from the feds; Boeing cleared to buy back Spirit Aerosystems; ‘South Hill Rapist’ dies.

A coffee house training at-risk youth; Costco sues over federal tariffs; state big-biz payroll tax plan coming to next Legislature; BC Bitcoin ‘mines’ turning into AI data centers.

Bookseller Peter Miller on Pioneer Square’s future; Little Red Hen suing to stop eviction; state lawmakers prepare for big budget cuts; are Gas Works’ legacy structures a ‘public nuisance’?

Ancient natural ‘abstract sculptures’ on display; DC shooting suspect’s Bellingham connection; state sues to stop SNAP cuts to lawful permanent residents; Alaska earthquake gets felt down here.