Seattle’s true face as revealed (in Shaun Scott’s new book) thru sports; wind knocks out power to many and sets a barge adrift; ex-King Co. jail guard accused of co-running drug ring; Bezos leaving town for Miami.

Creative indie video games rise from the margins of an industry in crisis; PCC’s downtown grocery palace closing after less than two years; ex-We Heart Seattle prez accused of theft in Oregon; Convoy’s ‘tech’ has a buyer, but not the company itself.

Chief Sealth HS students stage walkout to stop sexual harassment; more reactions to shootings here and war abroad; Seahawks, Huskies barely beat teams from AZ; burned-out Vito’s building probably doomed.

Ex-local actor wears 8th Generation garb on a major magazine cover; grocery mega-merger scheme could go to court; why Alaska snow-crab season was canceled; do you have to be old to be a ‘true Seattleite’?

Longtime Seattle art/music scene figure dies; three City Councilmembers say they’re against any major ‘austerity’ budget cuts; SDOT’s got ideas for climate-change responses in transportation; Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe still exists (but not for long).

‘Chaos and male fragility’ in ex-Amazonian’s memoir; City Council’s revised war-on-drug bill moves ahead; Lusty Lady sign (what’s left of it) comes down; is or isn’t Seattle an AI industry powerhouse?

Mutual Fish Co. closing after 76 years; judge opts not to totally end SPD consent decree; Wallingford house fire ruled a homicide-suicide case; suit claims UW Medicine lost a patient’s bladder tumor.

‘American Junkie’ author/musician Tom Hansen’s cancer death; big T-Mobile layoffs; city tells free-pantry organizer to scale back her operation; wildfire smoke coming back this weekend.

Museum of Museums closing forever (partly due to faulty plumbing); UW Regents ponder what to do if Pac-12 Conference collapses; City Council approves studying new I-5 lids; my annual defense of the hydroplane races.

A couple of faves at the Seattle Art Show and its satellites; violence strikes at an anti-violence event; Amazon doesn’t want a light rail stop at Westlake & Denny; the real meaning of the Seafair parade.

Everett airport puts ‘Seattle’ in its name; City Council passes industrial-zoning package; MS sees ‘massive opportunity’ in AI tech for business; DoorDash database mistakes a Tacoma home for a Popeyes.

Local man bicycles every Seattle block; Canlis servers accuse ‘wage theft;’ friends of threatened Tacoma church take their case to the Vatican; ‘Seattle Times’ columnist thinks Hitler wasn’t so bad (comparatively).

What King County could do instead of filling a landfill past its original capacity; Ann Davison to appeal injunction against anti-graffti law; WA’s got 13 active wildfires; Seattle’s getting its first ‘protected intersection.’

AI bot-written ebooks land (briefly) on an Amazon bestseller list; the would-be Obama bomber’s a Republican from Pasco; ex-Rep. Dave Reichert’s running for governor; still another Bartell Drugs location’s closing.

Author David Neiwert’s tales of NW extremism past & present; Rite Aid’s closing another Bartell’s; Seattle population nears 800,000; Rep. Jayapal’s stalker sentenced.