Saving one of the region’s last big theater organs; survey says more folks are ‘optimistic’ about Seattle; lawsuit challenges Amazon’s hiring practices; Boeing’s bond rating perhaps headed for ‘junk’ level.

Filmmakers spend years covering Aurora sex workers’ struggles; Harrell’s budget plan raids affordable housing to hire more cops; Afghans top WA’s refugee arrivals; Paul Allen estate pledges $9 million to downtown arts groups.

New gallery showcases Native arts, traditions; machinists nix Boeing’s ‘final offer;’ SPS puts school closures on hold while state officials call for more funding; right-wingers bash Macklemore speech at pro-Palestinian event.

Remembering Dan Evans’ life and deeds; Boeing ‘flies in out-of-state janitors’ during strike; white man strikes Black protester on Queen Anne; Three Mile Island to restart, exclusively to power Microsoft data centers.

Boeing strikers in for the long haul; Black UPS driver wins $237.6 million discrimination case; downtown PCC to reopen in shrunken form; Microsoft ‘selling AI to fossil-fuel companies’ while boasting of its green-ness.

Using AI to update a century-old play; is Andrea Suarez a Dem in name only?; Boeing machinists might reject contract offer, go on strike; UW researchers say teen brains got physically worse during COVID.

Protest after UW grad killed in West Bank protest; Jaahnavi Kandula’s family suing SPD; Boeing machinists to vote on contract offer; cyberattack shuts down an entire suburban school district.

Sonics band documentary (and 60th anniversary concer); state GOP sues King County over primary returns; Seattle Symphony’s getting its first female music director; Seattle ranks #2 in AI developers.

Bellevue Arts Museum suddenly shut (again); Nordstrom family wants to ‘take company private;’ why the right-wing initiatives are bad for students, bicyclists, and everyone; gamers can also be lovers, or at least fantasize about it (in many varieties).

Local author’s novel on national ‘most-challenged books’ list; state suing rent-software co. RealPage; Harrell ordered BLM Garden’s removal; new Starbucks CEO to commute from Calif. via private plane.

Bill Gates doesn’t like his latest biography; damning testimony about Boeing to the NTSB; Jaahnavi Kandula’s killer challenges his traffic ticket; remembering a longtime local restaurateur.

Dow Constantine’s plan to redo King County’s downtown campus; family of Titan submersible victim seeks $50 million; updated vote totals bring no real changes; beginning of the end for the current City Council?

Early election results: Ferguson, Shaun Scott ahead, Tanya Woo behind; councilmembers go behind closed doors to delay social-housing initiative vote; MoPOP seeks ‘national’ status; Boeing workers talk of ‘chaos and dysfunction.’

‘Fresh caught’ chinook salmon: tasty to humans, needed by orcas; city, county want office workers back more often; SPD officer fired for making a sick ‘joke’ sues; Woodland Park Zoo workers just might strike.

Jefferson Park Golf Course renamed for local Black pioneer golfer; minimum-wage retreat bill withdrawn; why national eyes may be on WA’s primary elections; what does WA get for data-center tax breaks? Unknown.