A mix of strays and animals ready for adoption at the Seattle Animal Shelter on Saturday. The shelter has taken in hundreds of mistreated pets this year, many from a recent animal cruelty case from West Seattle. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
Animals are ready for adoption at the Seattle Animal Shelter, where hundreds of mistreated pets have been taken in this year. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
Crime

Animal cruelty cases spike in King County; prosecutors and service organizations consider pandemic’s role

Experts say the coronavirus pandemic has created a "pressure-cooker situation" that has been hard on the community's mental health, and anger is taken out on vulnerable animals.  VIEW

Sue Brangwin volunteers putting together food pickups at Hopelink, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 in Shoreline. 215739
Fund For The Needy

This nonprofit works to meet the growing need for housing, food on the Eastside Updated

Hopelink has served low-income and homeless families in some of the Seattle area's wealthiest cities for years. The coronavirus has thrust that growing poverty into the spotlight as the nonprofit, one of 12 aided by donations to The Seattle Times Fund For the Needy, to works to feed, clothe and keep Eastside residents in their...  VIEW Updated

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie performs at the Bunbury Music Festival on Friday, June 2, 2017, in Cincinnati. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Music

Seattle’s Ben Gibbard talks Postal Service live album, new Death Cab EP  WATCH Updated

The paneer in this tikka masala is made fresh daily at Issaquah food truck Desi Tadka, run by the husband and wife team of Jagmohan Singh
Food & Drink

Ramen kit perfection, a new Indian food truck and more eats in Issaquah

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In an unpredictable 2020, the Sounders again are closing in on a predictable postseason goal

Payge Turner on “The Voice” on Dec. 1, 2020.
Music

Seattle’s Payge Turner eliminated from ‘The Voice’ Tuesday night  WATCH

Even in a light rain while jumping ropes, Brian Hsu and Alysia Mattson perform improvised heel clicks. Hsu is an award-winning jump roper and has been doing this for two decades. Mattson has only been doing it for 7-months but has mastered so many tricks. They consider it great aerobic exercise besides being inexpensive fun. Ref to more OnLine Both are excellent at skills and tricks. Thursday Nov 12, 2020 215577
Fitness

This Seattle woman is on a pandemic-inspired mission to get everyone to jump rope

Editorial

Salmon-rich Bristol Bay deserves permanent protection

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FILE – In this July 27, 2020, file photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpersville, N.Y., an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. An influential scientific panel on Tuesday, Dec. 1, is set to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic: When the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available, who should be at the front of the line for shots? (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File) NYAG101 NYAG101

Health workers, long-term care residents should get first doses of coronavirus vaccine, federal panel recommends

Featured Columnist

It’s past time for the Donald Trump and Loren Culp election sideshows to go dark

Education Lab

Washington state shares little data about public schools and whether coronavirus is spreading, or not

Free remote learning support is out there, but some Seattle students still can’t get access

Washington state officials are considering loosening guidelines to reopen schools

A reminder from new report: Washington’s schools are far from equitable

Washington youth nonprofits, struggling to retain volunteers and funding, get $9.4 million in COVID-19 relief

Election & Politics

Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraudUpdated

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) DECK106 DECK106
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Klain brings decades of DC experience to Biden White House  VIEW Updated
GOP election official in Georgia blames Trump for fostering violent threats

Business & Tech

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Nation & World

FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, EMT Giselle Dorgalli, second from right, looks at a monitor while performing chest compression on a patient who tested positive for coronavirus in the emergency room at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Amid the coronavirus resurgence, states have begun reopening field hospitals to handle an influx of sick patients that is pushing health care systems — and their workers — to the breaking point. Hospitals are bringing in mobile morgues. And funerals are once again being livestreamed or performed as drive-by affairs. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) NYAG201 NYAG201

‘Very dark couple of weeks’: Morgues and hospitals overflow  VIEW

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Stay home for the holidays or get tested twice, CDC urges

Food & Drink

As restaurants cope with new Covid restrictions by rethinking outdoor dining. San Fermo in Ballard has added outdoor globes for diners. Photographed Wednesday, November 18, 2020 215681

Are bubbles safe? How to spot COVID-19 risks when dining outdoors this winter  VIEW

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Tiffani Williams and her daughter Ava Sophia Williams, 5, prepare to skate at Roll Around Seatown. 215259

Creating community connections during a time of unprecedented separation

Editorials & Opinion

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Bravo to NYC mayor for school reopening

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Sports

Pearl City players celebrate they win of the OIA DII boys volleyball championship over Kalani at Radford High School gym, Wednesday, April 25, 2018.

Before becoming a prolific pass-rusher at UW, Zion Tupuola-Fetui showcased the same skills on the volleyball court

Featured Columnist

In an unpredictable 2020, the Sounders again are closing in on a predictable postseason goal

Arts & Life

Even in a light rain while jumping ropes, Brian Hsu and Alysia Mattson perform improvised heel clicks. Hsu is an award-winning jump roper and has been doing this for two decades. Mattson has only been doing it for 7-months but has mastered so many tricks. They consider it great aerobic exercise besides being inexpensive fun. Ref to more OnLine Both are excellent at skills and tricks. Thursday Nov 12, 2020 215577

This Seattle woman is on a pandemic-inspired mission to get everyone to jump rope

Why you’ll want to disappear into Sam Raimi’s haunting thriller ‘A Simple Plan’ | Movies with Moira

Fund For The Needy

Help local children, families, and seniors this holiday season.

Photography

Despite the restrictions on crowds at public events, downtown Seattle lit its Christmas Tree and unveiled its updated star atop the former Macy’s building Friday, November 27, 2020. Also, in place of the Holiday Carousel is a light display. 215773
Local News

Downtown Seattle brightens up for the holidays  VIEW

A nearly full moon shines above Seattle on Saturday night. The moon was at it’s fullest early Monday morning. This photo was made with a 600 mm lens, using f4 at 1/2000 of a second, ISO 1000. 215768
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Full moon over Seattle

With dad Ryan Wells close by, 2-year-old Paige Wells shreds at “Sunset Pump Park” for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 in Seattle. According to her father, the track was made encircling a vacant Ballard house by a neighbor who wanted to give kids nearby someplace to let off some energy. After several loops Paige appears a complete natural. 215763
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Successful first ride at Ballard’s ‘Sunset Pump Park’  VIEW

Anna McAllister of Seattle walks her rescued retired racing grey hound Trevor along the Seattle Turkey Trot run route on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 in Seattle. The run was virtual this year and participants went on their own schedules. McAllister said she always runs the race but decided this year she would make a Trot donation, forgo the tee-shirt, sleep in and walk the route ending at Golden Gardens. 215763
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Seattle Turkey Trot participant dresses for the occasion