After a lot of work, the Duwamish River’s a lot less toxic these days; Washington’s COVID cases surpass 100,000; the city’s LGBTQ Commission wants Durkan out; Seattle U’s getting its first non-priest president ever.

Beloved ex-kids’ TV star Ruth Prins turns 100; local jazz great Overton Berry RIP; pandemic job recovery ‘sputters to a halt’; is working at Amazon warehouses more dangerous than logging?

Wizards of the Coast sued over role-playing-game spinoff novels; a ‘fall surge’ in regional COVID cases could be here; Durkan asks Seattle cops to stay; ballots just keep a-coming in.

Allegedly true Seattle ghost stories; Alaska tsunami threat likely won’t reach us; ex-Gov. Dan Evans turns 95 as the WA GOP steadily collapses; ballot drop boxes filling up quickly.

A local painter depicts people with things to say but without the means to say it; SPD attrition is up a bit this year; Boeing could leave its offices at the ex-Longacres site; what’s really ‘revolutionary’?

State high court nixes Eyman’s latest kill-transit initiative; local man gets COVID twice; Portland pastor/NAACP head accused of repeated sexual/physical abuse; ‘Uncle Ike’ doesn’t like his face on urinal cakes.

More on the ‘Keep Music Live’ fund drive; Durkan’s hand-picked ‘Equitable Communities Initiative Task Force’ and its discontents; conflicting tales about the Portland protest shooting suspect’s killing in Lacey; the state’s COVID response boss gives her notice.

An ‘Indigiqueer’ drag performer wants real Native inclusion in the arts (not just slogans); more evidence of tech-biz sexism; Gates says COVID vaccine could be close; another failed try to track a ‘murder hornet’.

More on the Elephant Car Wash’s demise and the fate of its classic neon; state’s top court nixes Durkan recall drive; remembering a local gay-rights pioneer; a poll shows big support for Black Lives Matter protests.

Bartell Drugs to be sold off; Elephant Car Wash on Denny to be razed; public school enrollment (especially kindergarten) is down statewide; city Human Rights Commission wants Mayor Durkan to resign or be removed.

Promoting Black liberation at a ‘healing farm;’ cinemas can reopen (but many won’t); Congressional report says Amazon has ‘monopoly power’ over many sellers and suppliers; Storm makes getting a fourth WNBA crown look easy.

Museum of Museums finally nears opening; Inslee disses White House COVID ‘downplaying;’ Seattle may have the fewest COVID infections of any big US city; a venerable local charity’s slick/bland ‘rebranding.’

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme make a streaming holiday special; will we ever get to a ‘phase 3’ reopening?; 16 arrests at another Capitol Hill protest; gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp’s book compares gun laws to the Holocaust.

787 assembly to leave Everett some time in 2021; Greek Row COVID outbreak passes 100 cases; Seattle police union negotiations about to start; a ‘socially distanced theater production.’

A local dancer’s tale of depression, drink, and survival; COVID outbreak at Salish Lodge; Durkan to disband Navigation Team after all; Inslee threatens Boeing’s tax breaks if it moves 787 work out of Everett.