Nordstrom leaves an emptying-out Northgate; a bus driver’s lovely ‘Ode to Aurora;’ feds try to discredit a climate-related UW study; there’s too much of the wrong kind of salmon.

Lorena Gonzalez runs for state Attorney General; ‘Never Again Is Now’ rally fails to impress ICE’s local landlord (a Holocaust survivor); citizen commission rejects Durkan’s latest police-reform plan; Melinda Gates wants gender equality this century.

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.

Remembering two giants of Seattle visual art; more Showbox landmarking details; another big-money City Council PAC; is Sea-Tac Airport lying about its age?

Many local angles on the Apollo 11 nostalgia; Amazon defends itself to a Congressional committee; the Lake Washington water-taxi idea progresses; Rapinoe for Prez?

An underwhelming locally-made movie; a Hanford facility’s dangerous decay; a Boeing union official’s stern diagnosis about the company culture; another Megan Rapinoe triumph.

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.

The ‘Twin Peaks’ high school’s held its last class; a downtown hotel’s been finished for two years without opening; the World Wide Web’s birthplace tries to divorce from Microsoft; KING loses another local-news legend.

Top NW pop foods; top (current) NW pop music acts; Sawant’s campaign raises major bucks; Howard Schultz’s campaign hits a pause.

Vancouver store tries and fails to embarrass customers; Nick Hanauer starts a PAC for progressive Council hopefuls; an old medical office building will be a ‘Museum of Museums’; Twitter accuses an anti-racist author of racist imagery.

Remembering a local performance legend; this year’s official homeless count is down; yet another 737 problem; why Seattle (heart)s business so much.

David Shields’ Marshawn Lynch biopic; Seattle politics’ biggest ‘third rail’; King County’s new rules on deadly-force inquests; should lawmakers get to become instant lobbyists?

Is liquified natural gas a step toward cleaner energy or just more of the same?; Amazon shareholder proposals fall; Inslee’s first big veto of 2019; how the alt-Right seeks an ‘insider’ presence in Seattle.

Comparing rival fashion-art exhibits; a historic restaurant space reopens; more measles-outbreak effects; 50 years of getting stuck in traffic on I-5.

Remembering Mount St. Helens’ blast; lotsa City Council hopefuls; more flak against Judge Ed McKenna; could G5 cell service imperil weather forecasting?