Etailer Zulily’s final days; Denny Blaine Park won’t be de-nuded for a kiddie playground; Starbucks wants to talk to unions again (under certain conditions); UW QB Michael Penix Jr. doesn’t get the Heisman Trophy.

Can ‘Boys in the Boat’ movie spur UW applications?; some already disappointed in Legislative session that hasn’t started; bad early reviews for Amazon chatbot; Bezos’ yacht has to dock with oil tankers.

Locally-written drama explores Israeli-Palestinian rift; TV-station owners, streaming services playing fiscal hardball; SPD officer accused of helping drug runners; Alex Pedersen wants to use trees to deter residential development.

Are taprooms ‘the new coffee houses’?; Sam Altman’s back at OpenAI (so he’s not going to Microsoft); anti-Israel slogans tagged on Mercer Island synagogue’s walls; Pac-12 football’s demise draws near.

(Cleaned-up) stuff found in local sewers; cryptocurrency tycoon pleads guilty to allowing money-laundering; petition to keep ‘Dykekiki’ nude beach at Denny Blaine; Harrell wants SLU light rail to be less convenient. 

Thousands of historic Asahel Curtis photos being digitized for the first time; Microsoft hires ousted OpenAI boss; Burien threatens to sue church for hosting an encampment; suit says Amazon drivers work too dangerously fast.

Locally-made video game with South Asian American vibe; activists block ship at Port of Tacoma; tech pundit claims Amazon overcharges on many items; it’s Election Day, remember?

Halloween stories include a (big) Bigfoot film collection; SPD can’t lie to the public (as much) anymore; seven state ferries are now in for repair; did Amazon fire a worker for criticizing its back-to-the-office edict?

Artist/curator Tariqa Waters wins big SAM award; off-duty pilot tries to sabotage Alaska Air flight; business groups spending big in City Council races; Bainbridge High football players accused of chanting racial epithets.

NYC authors recount the ‘Joy of Costco;’ Instacart hates Seattle’s worker-protection laws; Seattle Schools planning big budget cuts; Kirkland police used ‘irritant’ on protesters.

Ex-local actor wears 8th Generation garb on a major magazine cover; grocery mega-merger scheme could go to court; why Alaska snow-crab season was canceled; do you have to be old to be a ‘true Seattleite’?

Megan Rapinoe’s big career finale, and other major local goings-away; the controversy (and limits) of AI-generated prose; Manny Ellis’s family speaks out at trial of officers who killed him.

Marchers want cops who ‘joked’ about woman run over by another cop fired; SPD takes 50 minutes to answer hate-crime call at Wing Luke Museum; 300 affordable units planned at former Rainier Valley 7-Eleven site; a personal tragedy.

Seattle’s newest lesbian bar; cops caught laughing about another cop running over someone; family-friendly shelter units are especially scarce; saving what’s left of Seattle’s historic Black neighborhood.

Critics question rollout strategy of Seattle company’s Disney collectible card game; Cal Anderson memorial tree replaced in Oly; WA’s next no-longer-affordable place to live; Tacoma as the next great radical hope.