A live Santa greets kids from inside a plastic ‘snow globe;’ ‘several’ COVID positives among the UW football squad; a bomb scare at the Spokane County Democrats’ office; imaging ‘a future where Amazon rules the world.’

Inslee keeps restaurants, bars, etc. closed three more weeks (restaurant industry assn. doesn’t like it); Seattle School Supt. Denise Juneau won’t ask for another contract; big-biz group wants city’s big-biz payroll tax tossed out.

Woodland Park Zoo’s new walk-thru light show; where most new COVID infections occur in King County; Amazon Web Services has a big outage in the east; a street sign honors a late local Black theater producer.

Iconic car-wash sign gone; another one-day COVID case record as hospitals fill up; a unionization drive at an Alabama Amazon warehouse; what Thanksgiving means this year (or could).

Big new book captures old local metal bands; Seahawks’ stadium has its fourth name (but only one ‘name sponsor’); SPD budget to be cut but not ‘defunded;’ West Seattle Bridge to be fixed (but it won’t be quick).

‘Sonics Forever’ podcast gathers basketball memories; another record day for COVID cases in the state; Amazon enters the prescription-drug biz; sex robots for old folks?

New statewide closures and restrictions announced as COVID cases skyrocket; Inslee may be sticking around; Microsoft says Russian hackers seek vaccine-research data; lotsa little earthquakes on Vancouver Island.

A new local hip-hop history book remembers the people who started it all; no more City Hall overnight shelter; a trans woman Lewis-McChord soldier sues to keep her job; where new city-funded arts spaces could go (part 1).

Hundreds attend many Biden-Harris celebrations around town; the local COVID risk is now ‘higher than ever;’ the closed-since-March Local 360 restaurant may reopen after all; Ken Jennings remembers Alex Trebek.

Pre-election jitters and reassurances all around; UW researchers claim to have developed a better potential COVID vaccine; legal settlement in case of Alaska crab-boat sinking; NY Amazon warehouse workers’ safety lawsuit dismissed.

Local collage artist’s homages to anxiety; the Seahawks get in another really close one (but are unlucky this time); two SPD brutality complaints get moved forward; ‘the future of the Democratic Party’ might be at stake in a Washington US House race.

After a lot of work, the Duwamish River’s a lot less toxic these days; Washington’s COVID cases surpass 100,000; the city’s LGBTQ Commission wants Durkan out; Seattle U’s getting its first non-priest president ever.

Beloved ex-kids’ TV star Ruth Prins turns 100; local jazz great Overton Berry RIP; pandemic job recovery ‘sputters to a halt’; is working at Amazon warehouses more dangerous than logging?

Allegedly true Seattle ghost stories; Alaska tsunami threat likely won’t reach us; ex-Gov. Dan Evans turns 95 as the WA GOP steadily collapses; ballot drop boxes filling up quickly.

A local painter depicts people with things to say but without the means to say it; SPD attrition is up a bit this year; Boeing could leave its offices at the ex-Longacres site; what’s really ‘revolutionary’?