Stevens Pass General Manager Ellen Galbraith looks up at the Tye Mill chairlift on a chilly morning last December at the beloved Cascade ski area. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
(Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
Outdoors

With a racer’s discipline, new GM turns a corner at Stevens Pass

Ellen Galbraith, a UW alumna, former ski racer and coach, climbed the ranks at Vail Resorts to a dream job (and a tall task): managing Stevens Pass out of a crisis. VIEW

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Politics

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) enters an elevator on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. How, in this day and age, did the congressman’s web of lies manage to avoid detection from his Democratic opponents and the media? (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) XNYT194 XNYT194

FEC wants answers on Rep. Santos’ chaotic treasurer switch

Opinion

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Local News

Phlebotomist Ann Marie Ogle, left, unhooks a tube from Taylor Knowles of W. Seattle, who is done donating blood at Bloodworks Northwest, Monday, June 21, 2021 in Seattle. The region’s hospitals and trauma centers are experiencing a critical shortage in blood supply as donors have dropped off and more hospital operations resume. 217456

WA blood donation centers seek donors to ease emergency need

Featured Columnist

In Seattle, the ‘shadow epidemic’ has passed COVID

Education Lab

Next superintendent of Bellevue schools announced
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Business & Tech

Wendsler Nosie, a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, who considers the rolling hills and hidden canyons under which more than 1 billion tons of copper lie, an area known as Oak Flat, to be a corridor to God inhabited by holy spirits, near Superior, Ariz, Jan. 21, 2023. Tribal groups in Arizona are fighting a copper-mine project, which they say would scar their sacred land, but that proponents say would increase the supply of a metal crucial to batteries and reduce fossil-fuel use. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times) XNYT16

A copper mine could advance green energy but scar sacred land VIEW

Featured Columnist

Seattle faces a moment of truth to save downtown

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Nation & World

FILE — The Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, March 7, 2020. Seven states that rely on the river for water were supposed to voluntarily cut back. Now, it appears the government will have to impose reductions. (John Burcham/The New York Times) XNYT1

As the Colorado River shrinks, Washington prepares to spread the pain

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Food & Drink

From the Kidd Valley Burger Babe pageant scrapbook, memorabilia including, from top left, the sash and tiara; a Seattle Times column about the event, written by Jean Godden; notecards from Bethany Jean Clement’s speech; and the official I.D. card for the redemption of free burgers for life (not shown: the giant check).

‘I was the Kidd Valley Burger Babe’ — how our food critic got her start

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Arts & Life

The sun shines down Hagen Hill as new GM Ellen Galbraith carves into a turn at Stevens Pass. 222478

With a racer’s discipline, new GM turns a corner at Stevens Pass VIEW

Photography

Seattle Kraken center Morgan Geekie breaks down the ice with the puck ahead of Calgary Flames center Trevor Lewis during the first period. 222842
Kraken

Photos: Kraken vs. Flames hockey VIEW

Noah Williams celebrates Washington’s 69-66 win over Arizona State in overtime with the Husky faithful at Alaska Airlines Arena Thursday. 222881
Husky Basketball

Photos: UW men’s basketball vs. ASU VIEW

The Kraken take advantage of the power play getting Alex Wennberg (21) the puck at the crease, and scoring the second goal of the game against the Canucks in the first period.
Kraken

Photos: Kraken vs. Canucks hockey VIEW

The new convention center, SUMMIT, officially opened Wednesday, January 25, 2023. The SUMMIT complex is North of the present convention center, and will operate simultaneously. Massive floor to ceiling glass windows provide plentiful natural light as well as spectacular views. 222822
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New Seattle convention center debut VIEW