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Roadwork to disrupt on Alaskan Way Viaduct, I-90, I-405, I-5 and Highway 167 this weekend

Traffic Lab

State Patrol crackdown on HOV violators snares more than 1,700 drivers in Puget Sound area

The State Patrol spent last week emphasizing HOV rules, with a team of troopers dispatched to enforce them across King, northern Pierce and South Snohomish counties.

Chisato DuBose, 54, and her daughter Sachie DuBose, 18, are photographed at Columbia City Fitness Center where they train on South Jackson Street. Chisato competes in both powerlifting and bodybuilding. Sachie is a three-time world champion powerlifter. They both are members of the Bull Stewart Powerlifting team.

Weightlifting

Seattle mom, teen daughter find power together with elite lifting — and it all started at Goodwill

Chisato DuBose, 54, and Sachie, 18, train together as competitive powerlifting and bodybuilding athletes. Next weekend, the mother-daughter tandem will compete at the AAU World Powerlifting Championships in Las Vegas. WATCH

Earl Thomas (29) warms up for Monday’s game with Chicago.

The Seattle Seahawks played the Chicago Bears Monday, September 17, 2018 at Soldier Field in in Chicago. 207822

Seahawks

Earl Thomas doesn’t practice Friday amid mysterious circumstances and team won’t say if he will play Sunday

Thomas held out for all of training camp in search of a new contract and returned without one, or any promise of one. WATCH

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Round 2 | Vote!

Name Seattle's future NHL team: The official(ly unofficial) tournament

In this May 8, 2008 file photo, a butcher spreads out rotisserie-roasted chicken at Costco in Mountain View, Calif..

Retail

Costco takes rotisserie chicken supply chain under its wing

Anna Ferguson lost her home when her father, Chris, was diagnosed with ocular histoplasmosis and lost his job at the paper mill.

Project Homeless

I had to learn how to take care of my father at 13, when we both became homeless

Editorial

Congratulations, Washingtonians, for defending open government

Local News

People pack up their belongings as a San Francisco Public Works employee throws away a shopping cart left behind by people living in tents along Division Street, under Highway 101, just north of the Mission District. 207598

San Francisco is cracking down on tent camps. Will Seattle do the same? VIEW

Featured Columnist

Trump hasn’t gotten his wall, but he’s building one around us nonetheless

Education Lab

For 40,000 homeless students, it’s back-to-school season in Washington

Seattle School Board gives final approval for 10.5 percent raises in new teacher contract

Q & A | How will new Washington state teacher contracts affect school-district finances?

12.5 percent of Seattle students are English learners. Why are their test scores worse than 4 years ago?

Promise of $100,000 in scholarships to 10 Seattle teens never came, but local black community is stepping in to help

Business & Tech

iPhone XS and XS Max show bigger is now definitely better

Featured Columnist

Ten years ago, WaMu’s failure crushed Seattle’s last banking giant

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Explore

Crew members of Seattle-based UnCruise Adventures Jose Rosales Bravo (from left), Laura Romero, Trevor Kane and Caitlynn Smarr enjoy Hawaii. (Courtesy of Cameron Zegers via UnCruise Adventures)

Careers

Jobs for people who love to travel

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Education

Local organizations help alleviate homelessness through compassion

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Outdoor Living

How to throw a football tailgate party — in your own backyard VIEW

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Health

Proton beams destroy brain tumors and give kids a chance

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Home Trends

9 expenses to pack in your moving budget

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Nation & World

GOP, Kavanaugh accuser in standoff over her Senate testimony WATCH

Photography

One pane at a time, Pan Kantiyavong CQ removes the white washing from approximately 3,500 of them at the Volunteer Park Conservatory. Every April the shade compound is applied and then in September it’s removed. The white wash moderates the temperature inside.

It’s a four-day job.

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Local News

Getting ready for fall at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory VIEW

Glass blowing professeional Sayuri Fukuda watches carefully as she heats a glass pumpkin stem during GlassyBaby Studio’s “Make your own Pumpkin” Event on Thursday, September 20. Customers got to assist professionals in the process and design the pumpkins themselves. 207826

Photography

Photos: Glass blowing with the pros VIEW

Philadelphia forward Fafa Picault pounces on a ball passed to him by Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei, scoring in stoppage time as Seattle Sounders FC end their streak with a 1-0 loss to the Philadelphia Union Wednesday September 19 2018 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. 207781

Sounders

Photos: Sounders lose to Union, 1-0 VIEW

Storm forward Breanna Stewart holds this year’s trophy at a victory parade for winning the 2018 WNBA Championships, their third league trophy, Sunday September 16, 2018 around the Seattle Center. 207801

Storm

Photos: Seattle Storm victory parade VIEW

Entertainment

Chris Cornell (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)

Listen to this newly released Chris Cornell song from upcoming album, box set

Featured Columnist

New book tells of journey across the ‘other border’ — the 4,000-mile line between the U.S. and Canada

Editorials & Opinion

Why we stay silent after sexual assault | Op-Ed

Featured Columnist

Tech platforms are in an existential crisis

This week in cartoons

Kavanaugh accusations, Sesame Street controversy and Jeff Sessions loyalty

Sports

Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner (54) watches the game from the sidelines as the Seattle Seahawks play the Indianapolis Colts at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on August 9, 2018. 207349

NFL history proves Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner right: ‘You don’t want to be 0-3’

Featured Columnist

Earl Thomas doesn’t practice Friday amid mysterious circumstances and team won’t say if he will play Sunday

Featured Video Stories

Chisato DuBose, 54, and her daughter Sachie DuBose, 18, are world-champion power lifters and competitive bodybuilding athletes. As the women train and compete together, they build each other up. (Erika Schultz and Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Mother-daughter powerlifters 'don't care what people have to say' (5:12)

Experience the sights and sounds of the parade and victory rally for the Seattle Storm, winners of the 2018 WNBA Championship, at Seattle Center on Sunday September 16, 2018. (Corinne Chin, Ramon Dompor and Bettina Hansen / The Seattle Times)

Seattle Storm: WNBA Champions 2018 (2:23)

Sabrina Tate died in her RV at the age of 27. Five months later, her parents, Tommi Tate and Kellie Sevier of Spokane, continue to grieve. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

A leaf of remembrance for Sabrina Tate (2:15)

After Juan Lopez arrived in the United States, he wasn’t thinking about the future. Now he has a wife and children. “To see them crying… it just hurts me now.” (Corinne Chin, Ramon Dompor & Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

'It's going to be hard to leave': The Lopez family's tough... (8:41)

Recent Chief Sealth graduate Juan Old Chief Betancourt has learned a lot from his great grandmother. He wanted to honor her the best way he knew how, by taking her to his high school prom. (Lauren Frohne & Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Family always comes first: A prom story (5:09)

Stand up paddle boarding is making its Special Olympics USA Games debut, and 21-year-old Devon Adelman is up for the challenge of this new sport. (Lauren Frohne, Bettina Hansen & Emily M. Eng / The Seattle Times)

Paddling for Special Olympics gold (5:01)

"History matters because it shows our values," says Jeffrey Coopersmith, a Seattle attorney who has collected historical artifacts for the past four decades. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Artifacts of Injustice (2:38)

South Park has seen a recent escalation in youth violence, but programs like the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps work to keep kids active, safe and engaged with the community. (Lauren Frohne & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

Nurture with nature (5:35)

Life

Sally Field will speak at the University Temple United Methodist Church on Oct. 1 in an event sponsored by the University Book Store.

After a career spent inhabiting other characters, Sally Field finds her own voice in her new book, ‘In Pieces’

Featured Columnist

Want to end homelessness? Start with getting people into recovery

Pacific NW Magazine

Ubah Warsame, a health coach/medical interpreter and Somali-American mother of three, is photographed in Seattle. Within her job and advocacy work in the East African community, Warsame says she?s seen an increase in depression, anxiety and uncertainty about what the future holds due to the political climate.
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Seattle-area women of color share how they navigate the workplace

Travel

Seattle, Wa – 143066 – gg – 11/11/2014 – LO LO LO – The Victoria Clipper IV prepares to dock at Pier 69 in downtown Seattle, with a backdrop of the Olympic Mountains at sunset.

Bad Travelers: A harrowing boat crossing to Victoria leads to a lesson — trust the professionals