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I-5 lane closures will snarl traffic all weekend

This year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Grant County, takes place May 25-27. (Shawn Gust / Yakima Herald-Republic) — This year's Sasquatch! Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Grant County, takes place May 25-27. (Shawn Gust / Yakima Herald-Republic)

Music

Sasquatch! Music Festival, looking to stand out in crowded festival scene, gets back to indie roots

After lineup experimentation the last few years triggered backlash among fans, the popular Northwest music festival looks to its past in hopes of preserving its future.

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher James Paxton throws to a Detroit Tigers batter during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Saturday, May 19, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Mariners

James Paxton goes the distance, leading Mariners to 7-2 win over Tigers

M’s ace was outstanding, allowing just two runs on three hits with a walk and eight strikeouts to improve to 3-1.

Paul Simon performed during his “Homeward Bound – the Farewell Tour” stop at Seattle’s KeyArena on May 18, 2018.

Music

Reflective Paul Simon goes out on a high note, as farewell tour hits Seattle’s KeyArena

One of pop music's greatest songwriters, Paul Simon says goodbye during the second stop of his farewell tour at a packed KeyArena.

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s cell processing lab, patientsâ€™ cells are cultured into wells, incubated to increase the number of cells, collected and then infused into patients.

Doctors, scientists, and researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in South Lake Union in Seattle have been working on curing cancers for decades.
Photographed on April 12, 2018.

Pacific NW magazine

The Hutch closes in on a cancer cure

The driven leaders at Seattle’s landmark cancer-research center say a cure is within sight. VIEW

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FILE – In this file photo dated Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle, in Nottingham, England. The Metropolitan Police force said “a package containing a substance” was delivered to St. James’s Palace on Feb. 12, sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle, and is now being investigated as a racist hate crime, Scotland Yard said Thursday Feb. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE) LON116

Food & Drink

The official beer of the royal wedding comes with a little bit of Washington state

Andrew Ritts is trained as a cashier at The Frozen Rope concessions stand by manager Pauljanaâ€™e Hillis, right, during a dayside Mariners game at Safeco Field Wednesday May 16, 2018. Ritts is an employee through the Millionair Club Charity’s partnership with Safeco’s vendor Centerplate, which provides workers experiencing homelessness opportunities to fill shifts. 206333

Project Homeless

This Safeco concessions-stand worker is homeless, and he’s not the only one

Real Estate

How to buy a home in the Seattle area: a survival guide

Editorial

Seattle voters, sign referendum to repeal head tax

Local News

Seattle’s transportation department struggles with rising costs, unkept promises

Featured Columnist

Abandoning a generation in the land of the gun

Education Lab

Washington state’s new special education chief looks to improve low rates for graduation and attending college

Salmon migration lessons like fantasy football for fish, with 2,000 classrooms playing

Seattle’s Franklin High claims top honor in national mock-trial competition

Man with a plan: How Highline senior earned $400,000 in scholarships and Harvard admission

Business & Tech

Having data about people is not necessarily a bad thing. For many internet companies, especially Google, collecting and organizing the world’s data is part of their job. (Minh Uong/The New York Times)

Google’s file on me was big, but not as creepy as Facebook’s

Featured Columnist

Morning after on the jobs tax: Whether it comes fast or slow, Seattle will face a reckoning

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Career Advice

When losing your faith means losing your job

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Entertainment

New music festivals let you curate the perfect experience VIEW

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Home Trends

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Royal Wedding

Fascinators and morning suits: Style etiquette for a royal wedding

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Education

The benefits of attending boarding school

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Nation & World

FILE — Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services, speaks at a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 11, 2018. A proposal that the administration presents as a matter of transparency in drug prices has raised a torrent of questions from consumers, doctors, drugmakers and advertising professionals. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)

Would making drug ads reveal cost really bring down prices?

Photography

Taylor Van Zee scores for Washington off the Julia DePonte double in the 5th inning, tying the game with Texas.

The Washington Huskies played the Texas Longhorns in the NCAA Softball Regionals Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Husky Softball Stadium.

Huskies

Photos: UW Huskies edge out Texas for a 2-1 win VIEW

Beekeeper and executive chef Gavin Stephenson at The Sanctuary checks a frame from one of four hives on the roof looking for the queen. He will use honey produced in the hives in recipes at the event space.

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Thousands of honey bees and four queens took flight from 811 5th Avenue to the roof of The Sanctuary, formerly the First United Methodist Church, with the help of a crane Wednesday.

They’ll be part of an apiary, home to 200,000 Carniolan bees (Apis mellifera carnica, Pollmann),

The idea of hives on the domed roof of the event space is Gavin Stephenson’s, beekeeper and executive chef at The Sanctuary.

He’ll use honey produced there in recipes.

The bees are expected to produce about 50-pounds of honey per hive and roam a six-mile radius to collect pollen.

ZGF Architects, the firm that designed the adjoining Mark tower, also designed the hives.

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Photo gallery

Bees take ‘flight,’ set up hives of activity in downtown Seattle VIEW

Trieu Lam CQ, 11, from Van Asselt Elementary, keeps close watch on the chess pieces as his school and South Shore Elementary square off in Det. Cookie Bouldin’s annual Urban Youth Chess Tournament,
Tuesday May 15, 2018.

Det. Cookie says, “these are the best of the best” players.
It’s more than chess. “It’s how to build friendship with people who are different from you, different cultures.
It shows how different we are, but common in so many way.” It uses the chess board to teach “sportsmanship and respect.” Twelve years ago she started with only three players and now has 270 participating.
(results of this championship should be known by 6pm today)

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Photo Gallery

Planning chess moves, piece by piece VIEW

Mary Cocivera of Kelowna BC looks at bonsai plants during the very first Bonsai Fest! at the Pacific Bonsai Museum, Sunday, May 13, 2018, in Federal Way. The event, which will happen on Mother’s Day weekends in the future, also had vendors, special exhibits and demonstrations. 206308

Local News

Bonsai Fest! for Mother’s Day VIEW

Entertainment

Paul Simon performed during his “Homeward Bound – the Farewell Tour” stop at Seattle’s KeyArena on May 18, 2018.

Reflective Paul Simon goes out on a high note, as farewell tour hits Seattle’s KeyArena

Featured Columnist

Lit Life: A state, a slave, a spy — three remarkable new works of nonfiction

Editorials & Opinion

Israel cannot fulfill its promise perpetuating apartheid | My Take

Featured Columnist

Extremism on both sides of Gaza fence

David Horsey cartoons

Trump's lie about porn star hush money is one more untruth added to a mountain of mendacity

Sports

Washington shortstop Sis Bates can’t get the glove down in time to catch Texas’ Malory Schattle who advances on the passed ball in the 2nd.

The Washington Huskies played the Texas Longhorns in the NCAA Softball Regionals Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Husky Softball Stadium. 206319

UW Huskies edge Texas 2-1 to claim a spot in the NCAA softball Seattle regional final

Featured Columnist

Don Testerman, the Seahawks’ original fullback, dies at age 65

Featured Video Stories

Vishavjit Singh, dressed as Sikh Captain America, uses his superhero alter ego to initiate conversations he would not normally have with others while wearing his civilian clothes. (Ramon Dompor & Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

A Sikh man dresses as a superhero to challenge what it means to... (3:41)

Kellie Sevier and Tommi Tate of Spokane visit Seattle's last sanctioned lot for vehicle dwellers. Their daughter Sabrina Tate, 27, died in her RV. "It changed how I view homelessness," Sevier said. (Bettina Hansen & Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

A death in the RV safe zone (2:58)

Steven Loch, Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist, has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder since age 13. "It's the moment that you finally are open about it that you start getting the healing," he says. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

‘Dance has saved my life’ (3:14)

For years, Barbara Barnett didn't confront the sexual assault she experienced in the military. Now, she uses painting as an emotional outlet and donates the sales to ArtLifting to support other disabled artists. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

Amnesia / Denial (4:47)

Mollie Bryan is an artist, curator and organizer of light art and electronic music events in Seattle. From her gallery to natural spaces she creates a space for art that intersects with technology. (Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Making Art with Light (3:10)

After working with U.S. forces in their home countries, three people are granted Special Immigrant Visas and begin to rebuild their lives in Washington state. (Ramon Dompor and Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Wars' other veterans: Three people move to the U.S. with special... (4:42)

Fawn Batten is a survivor of domestic violence and used to sleep in a tent. Now, she builds relationships with people on the street as an ambassador for the Metropolitan Improvement District. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

Another shot at life (5:57)

Artists Kerry James Marshall and Mickalene Thomas discuss history, representation and painting at Seattle Art Museum's "Figuring History," which also features works by Robert Colescott. (Corinne Chin and Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

'Figuring History' at Seattle Art Museum (2:35)

Life

Jeanne Moussette gave the interior a nautical theme. This bedroom looks out at the water and Camano Island.

David and Jeanne Moussette built a home in the Tulalip-Marysville area off of Port Susan with views of Camano Island. David is a retired naval nuclear submarine captain and built the home on waterfront property that’s been in his family since the 1920s. Photographed on March 9, 2018.

A retired Naval commander and his wife can finally enjoy the water, together | Northwest Living VIEW

Featured Columnist

Astronaut Scott Kelly completed 5,440 orbits around Earth — now he’s coming to Seattle

Pacific NW Magazine

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s cell processing lab, patientsâ€™ cells are cultured into wells, incubated to increase the number of cells, collected and then infused into patients.

Doctors, scientists, and researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in South Lake Union in Seattle have been working on curing cancers for decades.
Photographed on April 12, 2018.

The Hutch closes in on a cancer cure

Travel

The eastern part of the 200-mile-long Iron Horse State Park Trail, currently called the John Wayne Pioneer Trail, may be renamed. (Washington State Parks)

Former John Wayne Pioneer Trail renamed Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail