Highly concentrated forms of cannabis known as dabs are typically vaporized and inhaled using a device that looks similar to a bong. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
(Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
Mental Health

Researchers warn of mental health risks of high-potency cannabis

WA lawmakers may again try to cap or tax high-potency cannabis products like dabs amid worries that youth who use them are getting sick or experiencing psychosis.

Politics

Ralph Reed, Founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, arrives at First Baptist Church Atlanta, where Herschel Walker is attending a luncheon and worship event in Dunwoody, Ga. on Oct. 4, 2022. National Republicans quickly began to close ranks on Tuesday behind Walker, the party’s embattled nominee for Senate in Georgia, a day after a report that Walker, an outspoken supporter of an abortion ban with no exceptions, had paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times) XNYT131

Republicans Rally Behind Herschel Walker After Abortion Report

Opinion

Jamelle Bouie
Supreme Court's legitimacy is on public's, and justices', minds | Jamelle Bouie
Idaho leaves college students in the lurch with reproductive health | Editorial
Make salmon restoration a policy and budget priority in WA | Op-Ed
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Local News

Seattle police stage vehicles in a parking lot across from Occidental Square during the rally for Indigenous peoples rights and respect the before a march through nearby streets. Counter protest by Trust Jesus group. Saturday Jan 23, 2021 216217 216217

Before all else, Seattle police recruits study the people they’ll serve

Featured Columnist

How King County piles its problems on the Chinatown International District

Mental Health

New King County property tax plan would fund mental and behavioral health
What we know about trauma’s effect on our health, and how people can recover
For Black men like me, the pandemic’s been a reminder of our psychological masks | Mental Health Perspectives
Why women with serious mental illness often get worse care than men

Business & Tech

A signs reads “Now Hiring” at a Safeway grocery store, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Seattle. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed an industry lawsuit that sought to block a $4-an-hour pay increase for Seattle grocery workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic that was approved by the Seattle City Council in earlier in the year for workers at large grocery companies. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Job openings in WA grew rapidly this summer. That’s not good news

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Nation & World

This image made available by NOIRLab shows a plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s DART spacecraft after it impacted on Sept. 26, 2022, captured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab’s SOAR telescope in Chile. The expanding, comet-like tail is more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long. (Teddy Kareta, Matthew Knight/NOIRLab via AP) NY981 NY981

Smacked asteroid’s debris trail more than 6,000 miles long

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Food & Drink

Bethany Jean Clement’s ranch-style chili is comfort food she savors with a side dish of family memories. Credit: Bethany Jean Clement

Bethany Jean Clement on love, loss and a simple, perfect chili recipe

Pacific NW Magazine

Seattle loves the Mariners, but our container ship trade goes mostly unnoticed

Seattle longshore workers keep the containership industry afloat

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Arts & Life

FILE – Country music great Loretta Lynn poses for a portrait in September 2000 in Nashville, Tenn. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90. (AP Photo/Christoper Berkey, File)

Loretta Lynn and her connection to WA

Photography

Cindy Tobeck climbs her great pumpkin after squashing competitors in the Carpinito Brothers Farm inaugural “weigh-off,” Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022 in Kent. Tobeck, who teaches third graders in Olympia, “schooled” the competition with a winning weight of 1989.5 pounds. Tobeck also grows awarding-winning squash, tomatoes, long gourds and zucchinis in Olympia.
Local News

See the 1,989-pound pumpkin that squashed competitors at Kent farm VIEW

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Marco Gonzales celebrates in the locker room after a 2-1 win over the Oakland Athletics and their first post season in 21 years. 221659
Sports

Thrilling win, wild celebration in photos VIEW

Dan Kelleher, from Kirkland laughs after Pamela Girres, from Bellevue spotted a Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper through her telescope from a spot on the 520 bridge overlooking marshes near Foster Island in Union Bay by the University of Washington in Seattle, WA on September 28, 2022. Bird enthusiasts were drawn there after receiving an ebird-alert from ebird.org that the Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper had been spotted. Many sightings have occurred over the past few days. 221715
Local News

Birders flock to 520 bridge to catch glimpse of rare visitor VIEW

Jupiter glows on Monday Sept. 26, 2022, as it is the closest to Earth than it has ever been in nearly six decades.
Local News

A look at Jupiter, from a mere 367 million miles