Jay Inslee’s not turning into a tree but he’s staying where he’s planted; could local tech giants’ work lead to ‘killer robots’?; Amazon claims to (heart) indie sellers; remembering when college and houses were both cheap.

Bill Nye invokes ‘behavior change’ for Google; AG Bob Ferguson sues to keep federal clean-power rules; Southwest Airlines might buy its first non-Boeing planes; mistrial in UW shooting case.

A giant, complex deal for the city-owned Mercer tract; more primary-election fallout; a China trade war could devastate Washington farmers; FedEx Ground says goodbye to Amazon.

The downtown ferry terminal will go bye-bye; pork farmers halted a big health probe; robots potentially threaten lots of jobs; a ‘hot, nasty summer election campaign’ is almost over.

An attempt to save the doomed-for-development Alki Rock House; learning about the alleged Seattle cyber-thief; more UW College Republican hate speech; can Inslee’s presidential campaign live another day?

Operation Nightwatch’s executive director recalls struggles past and present; possible delays in another Boeing jet program; City Council races turn ‘nasty’; should Seattle be more like Minneapolis (without all the ice)?

A NW rocker-turned-author decries ’90s music-scene nostalgia; how Seattle helped make Rutger Hauer a global star; Boeing loses almost $3 billion; did Durkan ‘red-bait’ a City Council candidate?

The $15 minimum wage and its continuing impact; ‘Mayor Pete’ talks here about ‘real’ moral values; the feds’ big Amazon investigation starts; a LOT more people will live around here by 2050.

Landmine-sniffing rodents in Tacoma; City Council OK’s a soda-tax-specific fund; NW trees are drying up and dying out; UW gets a big grant to fight disinformation.

An artist’s preserved kid-clothes make a message about the child detainees; ICE jails former church sanctuary resident; the Showbox gets ‘landmarked’; a shooting survivor’s concert to help others.

An anarchist protester is shot (perhaps wanting to be) outside the ICE jail; a mild earthquake shakes things up; MS backs off from a new corporate-software pricing plan; would Rapinoe accept an Inslee cabinet post?

Seattle inventors make a hi-tech fake coffee; other inventors make safer but costlier helmets for high school football; a sad tragedy on Pine Street; is King County helping ICE after promising not to?

Shorty’s loses its longtime space but stays alive; KCTS/Crosscut workers want a union; is ICE using WA driver’s-license pics?; Eyman’s latest initiative fizzles.

The owner who tried to move the Seahawks dies; Pride’s bigger than ever but its cause isn’t done; imagining a made-over Third Avenue; a state Senator accuses fellow Dems of racism and sexism.

An art installation for the Northwest’s new “fifth season”; Durkan (hearts) Amazon, presidential candidates don’t; BC can’t get rid of its trash; thousands of e-books sold by Microsoft will become unreadable.