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.

Coll Thrush’s book ‘Wrecked’ interweaves NW colonialism and shipwrecks; business lobby doesn’t like ‘millionaire tax’ bill; client stabs Ballard Food Bank worker in back; Daylight Savings Time going year-round in BC.

Group swimming in the winter cold; ‘millionaire tax’ foes accused of padding their numbers; staff call for city civil-rights boss’s removal; area preachers denounce the notion of ‘MAGA Christianity.’

Seahawks’ spectacular win and fan’ celebrations; another ex-Microsoft exec named in Epstein files; ‘right wing ideologues’ speak against millionaire-tax bill; lots of WA trees are ‘dead or dying;’

New Octavia Butler biography; US 2 eastbound opening again (with limits); four die in alleged Eastside murder/suicide; ‘Somali child care providers in WA being harassed.’

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.

‘The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show’ returns; massive windstorm threat also returns; Ferguson proposes drastic budget cuts but supports income tax on millionaires; most striking Starbucks workers returning to work.

Saving a Capitol Hill gaming Mecca; judge makes ICE release disabled US vet; Children’s Hospital nurses authorize potential strike; Ross closing two Seattle stores.

Candy Cane Lane endures; flood cleanup continues; climate change’s big role in the floods; city council approves ‘stacked flat’ apartments on residential lots.

Santa’s whole family on a holiday train; floods aren’t over but recovery’s just begun; local Dems start ‘non-violent resistance committee;’ just another ho-hum Seahawks miracle win.

New nonprofit arts/performance space; ICE arrests surge while detention conditions deteriorate; big windstorm power outages continue; who’s behind mysterious right-wing political entity ‘Washington Rising’?

The historic ‘bus riders’ depicted on a Rainier Ave. mural; another local levee breaks; two farms accused of keeping workers on the job during flood evacuations; Rad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy.

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.’

Photo book celebrates local waters; floods keep causing major mayhem and damage around the state; WA as a potential haven for ‘climate refugees;’ the latest way to perk up local nightlife: vintage stores?

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.