BBC Radio spins a yarn about Ballard’s spite house; a fish-saving plan that didn’t get built; the pilots who tried to warn Boeing; a scramble to control the warming Arctic.

Bill Nye explains climate change with funny props; big business has a city-council takeover plan; a legal win for backyard cottages; robots will pick apples and box up Amazon stuff.

Sea lions: threat or menace?; scooter-shares might finally come to Seattle; how a global criminal helped kill a Seattle restaurant; it’s too darn hot.

Local May Day events stayed on-message (sorry, news media); the yearly SIFF onslaught approaches; more hate-talk from Matt Shea; is this any way to teach science?

A once and potentially-future cinema; another (interim) Bob Ferguson courtroom win; Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna refutes bias claims; our local air is really bad (sometimes).

Tales of an early Seattle madam aren’t all true but still helped save Pioneer Square; another possible Boeing scandal; missing evidence in the Bertha tunnel lawsuit; even the STEM world needs the humanities.

Viaduct destruction continues; still more anti-‘Seattle Is Dying’ counter-arguments; Mariners become human again; Durkan defends immigrants (and defends defending them).

We may get another hot, dry, fire-laden summer; Northgate’s de-malling is well underway; who Amazon will put in its new Bellevue buildings; Seattle Times closing Bothell printing plant.

A legendary local sci-fi author dies; a suburban teen apologizes for a racist message; there’s another Sawant challenger; tracing the years-old roots of the 737 MAX crisis.

A local punk pioneer speaks for the trees; Saudis cited in Bezos blowup; the alleged Lake City shooter says he doesn’t remember doing it; the surprising Ms just keep winning.

The strangest new condo amenity yet; getting ready for another Bob Ferguson lawsuit against the White House; the Ms play preseason and regular-season games (almost) simultaneously; have you heard it’s been hot out?

How will Boeing survive this crisis (or can it)?; the City Council’s final upzone vote nears; Huskies & Zags both choke in conference title games; Howard Schultz isn’t really ‘from the projects’.

The women behind many early video games; a possible cause for the 737 MAX crashes; what is and isn’t still alive in Olympia; still missing the P-I after 10 years.

Phoenix Jones retires from the streets; more 737-crash reactions; WA’s regressive tax system explained; Facebook likes Viagra ads but bans a local company’s lube ads.

‘Slushmageddon’ arrives and makes a huge mess; viaduct demolition to finally start; school-bond ballots due today; Inslee’s ‘folksy’ national image-making.