Ally Jackson and her husband are planning to list their Mill Creek house for sale and try to buy a new one in the Bothell area, something she wasn’t planning on being able to do in the past few years. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Real Estate

Are bidding wars back in Seattle’s housing market?

Even as home shoppers once again compete for houses in the Seattle area, the market is far from the frenzy of recent years. Updated

Politics

Sam Smith performs “Unholy” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) CARA342 CARA342

Boebert, Greene, Cruz and others decry ‘demonic’ Grammys

Opinion

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Local News

A woman light candles during a candle light vigil for the victims of earthquake in Syria and Turkey, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria. It toppled hundreds of buildings and killed more than 1,900 people. Hundreds are still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers search mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) ANJ103 ANJ103

How to help, donate after the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Featured Columnist

Seattle City Council turnover raises troubling questions

Mental Health

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Business & Tech

Pedestrians pass the Nordstrom flagship store Monday in Seattle. Ryan Cohen, chairman of GameStop and co-founder of online pet product retailer Chewy, has taken a stake in the Seattle-based retailer. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)

Investor Ryan Cohen of Chewy and GameStop takes stake in Nordstrom

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Questions the next Seattle City Council needs to answer

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Nation & World

Pedestrians walk a street in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Matthew Staver.

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Food & Drink

Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Pretzels. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Scott Suchman for The Washington Post.

Chocolate-covered peanut butter pretzels are best made at home

Pacific NW Magazine

Tacoma author creates an illustrated travelers atlas for PNW islands

Tacoma author’s love letter to Pacific NW islands took years to compose

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Arts & Life

Brandi Carlile gestures onstage while accepting the award for best rock song for “Broken Horses” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) CALB105 CALB105

Brandi Carlile thanks ‘everybody in Seattle’ after winning rock Grammys

Photography

Seattle area priests of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches, as well as other church officials are joined with demonstrators at Westlake Park to protest the Ethiopian government, accusing it of constant attacks and trying to split the church by not recognizing only Patriarch Abuna Mathias as its head of leadership, or synod, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in downtown Seattle. Rain didn’t stop large numbers of congregants of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches from showing up to listen to speakers, and to pray, chant and sing before marching to the Space Needle.
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Ronan Mooney, right, and other Seattle Sounders FC fans react in the second half of the game while watching their team play Al Ahly of Eygpt in the FIFA World Cup held in Tangier, Morocco from a large screen at the Seattle Center Armory on Saturday, February 4, 2023. The Sounders lost 1 – 0 in their first appearance at the World Cup. “We did well to get here in the first place,” says Mooney.
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Sounders fans bring their Club World Cup hopes to Seattle Center

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Husky Basketball

Photos: UW women’s basketball vs. Cal  VIEW

Washington center Braxton Meah (34) dunks against UCLA guard Jaime Jaquez Jr., left, and guard Amari Bailey during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
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