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Mayor Jenny Durkan talks during a press conference discussing Apple’s expansion in Seattle Monday, June 24, 2019. Durkan held the press conference with officials from Apple at one of two 12-story buildings, located at 333 Dexter Ave. N, in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) — Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a significant expansion of Apple’s presence in Seattle at a press conference on Monday. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Business

Apple plans to add 2,000 jobs in Seattle

Apple announced a significant expansion in Seattle on Monday. The complex's office space could accommodate more than 3,000 employees. Updated 3:19 pm

Trump sanctions Iran's supreme leader in provocative move Updated 1:52 pm
Who will Washington’s next governor be? Uncertainty over Inslee creates pileup of politicians, domino effects down ballot
4,500 Expedia employees are coming to Interbay in Seattle. How will the company avoid a traffic mess? VIEW
Eastside affordable-housing agency to add staff, strengthen requirements to prevent violations
Many doctors are terrible at breaking bad news; these Northwest doctors want to change that
Sellers in Amazon’s bookstore feel beaten up by counterfeit Wild West
Former Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith searches for his inner ninja | Matt Calkins VIEW

United States’Megan Rapinoe scores her side’s second goal from a penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ALT156 ALT156

World Cup

U.S. in the World Cup quarterfinals after 2-1 win over Spain

The defending champions head to Paris to face France on Friday night. VIEW Updated 1:53 pm

FILE – In this April 20, 2016, file photo, a man smokes a marijuana joint at a party celebrating weed in Seattle. A new federally funded study found, not surprisingly, that marijuana use in Washington state is up since pot became legal in 2014. The hard, or not-so-hard, evidence was in sewage samples. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) NYAG401 NYAG401

Local News

Gee whiz: Testing of Tacoma sewage confirms rise in marijuana use

"It's not your grandmother's marijuana," says one researcher about the pot available nowadays.

Rice cakes and lamb curry – prepared at Trove in Seatle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Photographed on Saturday, October 24, 2015.

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Food & Drink

17 latest Seattle restaurant closures — plus one big-name Capitol Hill place that’s closing soon

Beloved Travelers Thali House, upscale Girin and several recent newcomers are among the recent closures citywide, but the Seattle restaurant-industry sky is not falling. Updated 1:59 pm

Don't Miss

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Pacific NW Magazine

A quest for ‘stereotypical American food’ leads to a universal embrace of cultures, flavors — and boxed Japanese curry mix

Oak View Group renderings for KeyArena. ( / Oak View Group)

Hockey

Bellevue-based Symetra life insurance becomes Seattle NHL team’s first founding partner, sponsor

Jeffrey G. Ojemann, MD, Division Chief of Neurosurgery, left, talks with tattoo artist Gary Williams before undergoing microsurgery to remove the epileptogenic cortex, the part of the brain causing his seizures.

Photographed on April 16, 2019.

Pacific NW Magazine

Would you donate part of your living brain to science? This man did. VIEW

Editorial

Deportation threats don’t fix immigration

Local News

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee rides the 7:05 Bainbridge to Seattle ferry Thursday, June 20, 2019, and talks about his presidential campaign.
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Trailing in early polls, Inslee takes presidential campaign to the biggest stage of his political career

Education Lab

There’s no good data on how often Washington schools restrain or seclude students. That may change soon.

Seattle School Board opens its process to fill the South Seattle seat. Here’s how to apply.

How do you want King County to spend $300M on education? The debate is starting.

Here’s how new study rates Washington on well-being of our state’s children

Seattle Public Schools cuts partnership with Native American youth program

Business & Tech

Apple plans to add 2,000 jobs in Seattle

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Downsizing

Considering parting with your piano? It won’t be easy

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Outdoor Season

Seattle-area canned drinks perfect for summer sipping

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Kathryn Crawford Saxer, jobs columnist for Seattle Times Explore

Careers

You’ve been professionally wronged. Now what?

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Home Improvement

Fancy bathroom fixtures that fit a tight space

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Outdoor Season

Dress local on your next camping trip VIEW

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Nation & World

Trash Mountain: Abandoned tents add to detritus on Everest VIEW

Extended Coverage

Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

Boeing & Aerospace

Complete coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX »

Local News

Who should lead Seattle? Meet the candidates running for City Council in 2019

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The souther resident orca L87, also known as Onyx) travels a traditional route that follows salmon migration in Haro Strait, a location also bisected by shipping lanes. The route follows the haro strait to boundary pass and then up the strait of Georgia toward the Frazier River near Vancouver right along the shipping lanes. This photo was taken north of San Juan Island near Stuart island. ONE TIME USE!!!

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Hostile Waters: Orcas in Peril | Explore the series »

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Food & Drink

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A quest for ‘stereotypical American food’ leads to a universal embrace of cultures, flavors — and boxed Japanese curry mix

Editorials & Opinion

Hard-line immigration policies have our Latino neighbors scared and traumatized | Op-Ed

Featured Columnist

At least he’s a talker, not a fighter

David Horsey's latest

Stop worrying and learn to love Super Hawk Bolton?

Sports

Former Mariners pitcher and current ROOT Sports analyst Ryan Rowland-Smith, trains at Sumner Ninja in Sumner to compete in the TV show “American Ninja Warrior” Friday, May 10, 2019. The show is taping in Tacoma on May 11-12, and it should air around late June. 210218

Former Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith searches for his inner ninja | Matt Calkins VIEW

Featured Columnist

Former Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith searches for his inner ninja

Photography

B-17 Flight Engineer Angel Estrada wipes down one of the four Curtis Wright radial engines on a Boeing B-17G at Boeing Field next to the Museum of Flight Friday, June 21, 2019. The aircraft and four other planes are at the Museum all weekend and are owned and operated by the Collings Foundation. Visitors can pay to ride in any of the five aircraft: Boeing B-17G, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang and a P-40 Warhawk. Flights on all the aircraft can be reserved at the airfield throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday.

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Weekend Events

History flies in for a weekend visit at Boeing Field

Friday, June 21, 2019. Artist and architectural designer Kimberly Corinne Deriana smiles after addressing the crowd during the dedication of a Medicine Sundial designed in collaboration with Coast Salish carvers. It is Deriana’s first major public art commission. The temporary public sculpture, which is intended to bring healing, recognition and awareness of First People, has been installed at King Street Station Plaza.
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Local News

Indigenous art installation debuts at King Street Station

It’s not everyday you get to see, up close, a monstrance or vessel from circa 1863 of gilded copper, enamel, glass and precious and semiprecious stones. It’s part of the the new Seattle Art Museum exhibition “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement.” About three dozen took the press preview Tuesday. The exhibit opens Thursday and continues through Sept. 8. The architect J.F. Bentley designed this monstrance for the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi in London’s Notting Hill. The exhibition features 150 works from the Birmingham Museum of Art, many never shown outside the United Kingdom.

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Entertainment

‘Victorian Radicals’ SAM exhibition VIEW

Never too young to dance, Four-year-old Cedar Christopherson contributes to the Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers performance during the Indigenous People Festival at Seattle Center Saturday. Kuteeyaa means “totem” in Tlingit. Cedar also improvised some steps while the Tlingit group performed on the Armory stage

The festival celebrates indigenous cultures with song, dance, art and food with many Native groups collaborating.

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Local News

Seattle Center event showcases Native American culture VIEW

Entertainment

“Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan

Moira’s Book Club’s discussion of Esi Edugyan’s ‘Washington Black’ postponed to Tuesday, July 2

Pacific NW Magazine

Jeffrey G. Ojemann, MD, Division Chief of Neurosurgery, left, talks with tattoo artist Gary Williams before undergoing microsurgery to remove the epileptogenic cortex, the part of the brain causing his seizures.

Photographed on April 16, 2019.

Epilepsy patient Gary Williams donates part of his brain to science while he — and his healthy tissue — is still alive

Life

Can you come up with a better design for Seattle’s city flag? Send us your ideas