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.’

Annual Sheraton ‘Gingerbread Village;’ feds sue state to get voter-registration data; Ferguson to submit ‘all-cuts budget;’ SPD killing near Othello station.

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’?

The Seattle World’s Fair’s ‘adult’ shows recalled; Katie Wilson-bashing gets even more ridiculous; DC could cut homelessness funds housing thousands; charges filed in attempted Neighbours nightclub arson.

Priscilla Dobler Dzul’s art links Maya, Northwest lore; drought devastates Yakima Valley farms; Wilson stands with striking Starbucks workers; Nisqually tribe won’t house an ICE jail on its land.

Knute Berger profiles Henry and Sarah Yesler; will full SNAP funding come back or not?; mayoral race narrows in late ballots; the (unintended?) double meaning of the new women’s hockey team’s name.

Harrell, Zahilay lead in early election returns, as Davison, Nelson trail; Microsoft wants more power for AI servers; WSU studies how solar power could help farming; will any SNAP benefits resume, and if so when?

Illustrated book on Central District memories; SNAP recipients to get only partial benefits, late; new orca calf presumed dead; Election Day and ‘a tale of two Seattles.’

Ethnic advocates’ Dia de Los Muertos displays; Judge orders SNAP benefits resumed, as locals work to help cutoff victims; security guard arrested in Pio. Square shooting; venerable restaurant gets scathing review.

Art/music/comix promoter Larry Reid profiled; fewer people are dying on Seattle’s streets; Amazon to lay off up to 30,000 workers; what DOES horror mean in a world of cruelty and terror as gov’t policy?

Charles Burns’ graphic novel ‘Black Hole’ coming to Netflix; feds post, remove ICE promo vid with possible far-right ‘dog whistle;’ dog-daycare closes after ‘cruelty’ charge; big weekend storm’s big damage.

Tall ship from Norway in town with a cause; SNAP/EBT aid cutoff nears; Harrell/Wilson mayoral race divided on income lines; Alaska Airlines grounds all flights due to a tech outage (again).

New play on (not yet) dying of a terminal disease; Sara Nelson courts right-wing TV viewers; Repubs & conserva-Dems want to control Legislature again; much of tentative new SPD contract ‘still up in the air.’