This Central Asian snack should be on your must-try list. Fresh from the oven, beef samsa is succulent. Their skin is flaky and buttery, with rippling cracks. Have a bite, guzzle green tea, then cool your palate with pickled carrot-and-garlic salad.

The legal fight in Everett over bikini baristas' clothing — or lack thereof — is back in U.S. District Court after about a decade of clashes that brought forth a rather graphic city ordinance on what can and can't be worn.

The maker of the Salmon Cannon, a fish transportation system to help salmon get over dams, was inspired by a system used in a family apple orchard. "From the fish's perspective, it's swim in, slide and glide," says the CEO of Bellevue-based Whooshh Innovations.