One more day of cold sunshine before snow returns; Howard Schultz’s questionable investments; MLB dismisses racism claims against the Mariners; Mayor Durkan reveals secret cancer surgery.

Deep freeze hangs on; Showbox-savers keep on; foster kids sent out-of-state face horrific abuses; Boeing’s involved in an “SST” jet program again.

Remembering Northwest photo master Mary Randlett; the Lava Lounge and neighbors are threatened with removal again; women’s-soccer Reign headed south; still more Howard Schultz dissing.

Speakers and marchers call to continue MLK’s fight; orcas aren’t ‘in the pink’; Seattle’s long-threatened ‘Carmageddon’ still isn’t here; Boeing’s new quality-control plan means fewer human inspectors.

The Seattle Womxn’s March gets smaller but stays adamant; a Paul Allen company downsizes; a talk-radio host boasts about lawbreaking; still more shutdown fallout as the latest proposed “deal” gets dissed.

Northgate’s original ‘anchor store’ will go away; still more climate-change ickiness; BC tribes want to buy that big pipeline project; Pramila Jayapal may co-preside on any impeachment drive.

The Mariners’ stadium gets a new name; Durkan names two new dept. heads; car-share companies merge; the mass-child-detention horror continues.

One of Seattle’s least-known museums revealed; a new SDOT director’s picked; new attempts to save the salmon; are our orcas too antisocial?

“Torrey Pines” animator’s new project; abusive ex-priests sent to Spokane; Durkan’s new housing push; Redmond’s now more diverse than Seattle.

Downtown protesters target Chase’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline role; Bumbershoot was lonely this year; will Bremerton get a Quincy Jones town square?; how to properly describe Amazon.

Classic Ballard diner suddenly shutters; useful things made from Boeing fiber leftovers; cop retaliates against man who’d cussed at him; Amazon loves pomposity.

A big, privately-financed outdoor art installation; more earthquake fears; what the dead ICE jail inmate wrote to his lawyer; George Bush the First without tears.

Brighten your winter day with cargo-container art; a (too simple?) solution to Hanford waste; City Council candidate doesn’t officially live in town.

A Christmas tree ornament for our time; tribes vs. oil pipeline redux; new City Council candidates; what’s in a (potato chip) name?

Turning street lanes into park space (permanently); light rail gets big fed grant; Durkan’s budget passes; another Mariners star goes to the Yanks.