Amazon coders are working on a project that could make some coding jobs obsolete; UFOs still light up Wash. skies; Inslee wants ‘clean electricity’ to power the state; Carol Channing RIP.

An artist’s delicate little tableaux of eco-disaster; the Legislature gets underway; Viadoom starts without major incidents; could the federal shutdown make wildfire damage worse?

The Viaduct’s end becomes a big cruisin’ scene; KIRO-FM ‘talk bros’ axed; the Legislature starts minus one embattled member; why the Bezos’ split was announced when it was; the Seattle music scene’s founding mother dies.

Various folks’ post-Viaduct plans; the federal shutdown’s effects get more dire; another GOP legislator’s anti-Seattle scheme; misleading ‘spreadsheet’ smears SeaTac immigrant business owners.

Neighbours dance club’s building sold; Bruce Harrell to leave the City Council; Inslee wants public-option health care; Mounties trash BC pipeline blockades.

UW scientists hope to decipher mouse language; Blue C Sushi dies; Bush Garden might live; state’s ski resorts get more corporate.

Indigenous artist offers a different take on superheroes; Eyman still wants to kill transit; Rep. Adam Smith hates the border-wall scheme; another windstorm wreaks havoc.

One of the last three Seattle video stores gives up the good fight; footage is posted of the 12/31 police shooting; big vacancies at Seattle apartments; Viadoom phase one begins.

Red pandas temporarily escape their zoo enclosure; state Supreme Court OKs youth-jail funding; black hotel guest proves he’s a paid guest, gets kicked out anyway.

A classic Chinese restaurant closes; remembering journalist Rick Anderson and soccer coach Sigi Schmid; 12-step groups for tech addicts.

Faiths come together to help out on the holiday; good news for (some) local fish stocks; hotel-worker protections shut down; what Boxing Day means to me.

One of Seattle’s least-known museums revealed; a new SDOT director’s picked; new attempts to save the salmon; are our orcas too antisocial?

“Torrey Pines” animator’s new project; abusive ex-priests sent to Spokane; Durkan’s new housing push; Redmond’s now more diverse than Seattle.

Downtown protesters target Chase’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline role; Bumbershoot was lonely this year; will Bremerton get a Quincy Jones town square?; how to properly describe Amazon.

Remembering all the orcas caught for display in private aquaria; Inslee’s new budget (and tax) plan; Amazon wants to put a spy-cam on your doorbell; Dave Reichert’s a GOP suck-up to the end.