UW Quad cherry blossoms lit up one night only; will ICE agents show up to take TSA duties at Sea-Tac?; Zags, UW women, Seattle U ousted from b-ball tourneys; CBS Radio abruptly killed at age 99.

Non-‘mystical’ 20th century NW art at SAM; Wilson pauses new police CCTV cams (but keeps current ones on); backlash against light-rail expansion cutbacks; ICE detains asylum seekers on questionable grounds.

One-day winter wonderland; Seattle Center wants big bond measure; REI cuts benefits, new-employees’ pay; feds want man to pay $1.8 million for not self-deporting.

Seattleite’s book on an obscure aspect of WWII; Seattle corporate lawyer is new state Supreme Court appointee; ex-city attorney Davison left over 5,000 unresolved cases; still more Starbucks store closures (most of them unionized).

Longtime, still-living leaders for local Native rights; Ferguson says he’ll sign ‘millionaires tax;’ 5th Ave. Theatre, Pacific Science Center lay off workers; Starbucks closing another unionized store.

Seattle-born artist’s spectacular feature-film debut; Wilson wants more ‘tiny homes’ faster; bill would outlaw AI child-abuse imagery (even if no actual children were involved); rapper ‘Raz’ Simone convicted in abuse, trafficking case.

Tattoo legend gets her marionette doll back; Seattle named ‘best place to live in US’ again;’ city, county on different paths about banning new ICE facilities; ‘millionaire tax’ bill might have to wait until next year.

Netflix doc on Eddie Vedder’s crusade vs. a rare disease; top local philanthropist (and staunch Israel defender) dies; Torrent sets a women’s-soccer attendance record; locals denounce new Iran war.

Kyle MacLachlan on ‘Twin Peaks Day’; Tukwila bans new detention centers; CARE team chief blasts SPD-driven limits on what it can do; man fatally stabs four, then is fatally shot by police, in Purdy.

Bruce Lee ‘forever stamp’ launching; Wilson’s ‘State of the City’ focuses on affordability, safety; debunking conservative claims against ‘millionaire tax;’ we could use someone like Jesse Jackson these days.

More afterglow from Seahawks’ Super Bowl win; bankrupt Eddie Bauer closing Seattle HQ; ‘millionaire tax’ passes first hurdle in Olympia; King County sues to stop ‘conditions’ attached to federal funding.

Local artist’s seemingly-moving silhouettes; Ferguson hesitant about millionaire-income-tax bill; Gluesenkamp Perez’s primary challenger rakes in bucks; locals still fighting for Black history in schools.

‘Rustic style’ 1908 home threatened; in-state Amazon layoffs exceed 2,000; homicide, other violent crimes went way down in Seattle in ’25; ‘Easy Street Records owner apologizes for sympathetic ICE comments.’

Army vet Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry’s long drive for citizenship; Wilson makes several anti-ICE measures; outgoing SPOG boss Mike Solan makes one more crude insult; jury finds Seattle negligent in 2020 CHOP killing, awarding $30 million.

Dance producer premieres new collaboration project; Amazon laying off another 16,000 globally; Microsoft announces big profits, big AI costs; Macklemore endorses ‘National Shutdown” campaign.