A California program was helping more black students earn college credit and graduate, so Highline College replicated it in Washington. Three years later, it's succeeding here too. Updated 10:52 am

This senior class has led the Huskies to 36 wins, just three wins shy of the school record over a four-year period.

Dining out is a luxury, obviously. And new restaurants are opening in newly luxurious Seattle at an overwhelming pace — hundreds over the past year. These places aren’t the shiny new ones — they’re just some of the very best, the places Seattle Times food writer Bethany Jean Clement recommends over and over again.