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Surgeons removed the seal’s left eye and sutured her eyelids together. (Jeff Brown / PAWS)

Environment

A pregnant harbor seal was shot in the head and lost an eye. Now she’s going home.

The seal was shot through the head near the San Juan Islands during a fishing derby. She and her unborn seal pup are lucky to be alive. VIEW

Tim Eyman under investigation in theft of $70 chair from Office Depot WATCH
Amazon puts the smile in federal income taxes — by not paying any | Danny Westneat
Property taxes dropping in half of King County cities after years of big increases
Trump tests presidential power, declares emergency at border WATCH
Amid measles outbreak, state House panel moves to ban personal vaccine exemptions
Former Eastside lawmaker arrested after drinking with underage relative, police say
Lawsuit alleges Arlington police ‘radically escalated’ encounter with distraught 17-year-old girl before shooting her

Seattle Storm star Sue Bird was at Wednesday night’s game scouting for the Denver Nuggets.

USC played Washington in men’s Pac-12 Basketball Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle, WA. 209152

Storm

Sue Bird has an eye for basketball talent. Here’s how she’s using it in her NBA role with the Nuggets.

A three-time champion with the Storm, Sue Bird used her offseason to keep working. Just in a different way. While she's still preparing for another title run in the WNBA, she's also working as a basketball operations associate with the Denver Nuggets.

Clyde Robinson, 97, of Seattle, is one of the few remaining Buffalo Soldiers. He served in the Army during World War II.

Robinson photographed at his home in Seattle August 22, 2018. 207511

PNW History

Seattle’s last buffalo soldier, 98, doesn’t want black regiments’ history to ‘fade out’

The buffalo soldiers are best known for their service in the 1800s, but the all-black regiments of the U.S. Army have a history and a living legacy right here in the Pacific Northwest. WATCH

Quarterback Jacob Eason on the first day of spring practice for the UW football team on March 28, 2018. 205675

Pac-12 Hotline | Jon Wilner

Analysis: How does UW’s QB situation measure up with the rest of the Pac-12?

Eight starting QBs return next year, and that doesn’t include Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who started seven games for UCLA, or Washington’s Jacob Eason, who played a full season at Georgia in 2016. Which team has it best at QB?

Don't Miss

The Restaurant LARK offers a short rib dinner special, a giant rib with two sides served in an iron skillet, and comes with a bottle of wine for $30. Offered only two days a week, Sunday and Monday. 209266

Food & Drink

Upscale dining deals: Dinner for two and bottle of wine for $30 at this revered Seattle restaurant

Washington State forward Robert Franks gestures after scoring a basket against Arizona during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Tucson, Ariz. Washington State won 69-55. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) AZRS113 AZRS113

UW @ WSU | Saturday, 5 p.m.

WSU’s Robert Franks is hitting his stride, and that could be bad news for the Huskies

Special Report

‘I always thought our boat was safe’: Former Destination crew member speaks his mind

Editorial

Legislature, don’t micromanage cities

Local News

Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. A Metro bus is jackknifed as it tried to go up NE 55th Street on the slick road with compressed snow. 209226 209226

‘B’ grades all around? Assessing the response to February’s historic Seattle-area snowstorms

Featured Columnist

Amazon puts the smile in federal income taxes — by not paying any

Education Lab

Testing the waters: Lead exceeds acceptable levels in water at many Seattle schools

‘I’ve never had a black teacher’: Seattle-area students share how educators’ lack of diversity affects them

Seattle schools levies pass in second-day returns, low turnout likely due to snow

People with disabilities can save for college, life expenses with new Washington state savings plan

Join us at the Ignite Education Lab storytelling event on March 11

Business & Tech

In an undated handout image, Sweet Home 3D is a program that helps lay out a plan for a house. Software like free floor-plan apps and augmented-reality tools can help sketch out the ideas for remodeling projects. (Handout via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY TECH Q&A BY J. D. BIERSDORFER FOR FEB. 14, 2019. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

How to make a 3D model of your home-renovation vision VIEW

Featured Columnist

Fuhgeddaboudit: Gotham is uniquely positioned to say ‘no’ to Amazon

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Explore

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Career Advice

How to cope with the winter blahs

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Environment

High-tech approaches advance sustainable forestry

Provided by Washington Forest Protection Association

Local Finds

Prince exhibit coming to MoPOP

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Feeling Good

High-tech treatments reshape patient options for body contouring

Provided by Glow Medispa

Home Improvement

Expert tips on picking the best flooring

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Nation & World

The scene in Aurora, photographed by Beacon News crime reporter Megan Jones, of the on-going possible active shooter. Dozens of area police officers have responded to the situation, and there are many injuries, according to Kendall County Dispatch. (Megan Jones/Beacon News/TNS) 1268822 1268822

Employee being fired fatally shoots 5 co-workers in Illinois WATCH

Photography

Merlina Cuaresma CQ builds bouquets of tulips at a stand on Pike Place in the market. The stand is in the street two days a year—Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. The bouquets sell for $15. The flowers are from a farm in Kent.

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LO Valentine’s Day flowers

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Local News

A day when love flowers at Seattle’s Pike Place Market VIEW

Qweenâ€™B King-Rios keeps vigil with the Women in Black of WHEEL, the Womenâ€™s Housing, Equality and Enhancement League, outside the Seattle Municipal Court building downtown Wednesday February 13, 2019. They stand vigil for people experiencing homelessness who die outside or by violence. King-Rios holds a paper with the names of 11 women and men who died in January of 2019 and Derek C. Johnson, who was found dead of hypothermia near the Sodo light rail platform last week. 209323

Local News

Women in Black honor recent lives lost to homelessness, violence VIEW

Wed. Feb. 13, 2019. The last of the SafeCo Field sign letters are lowered onto a trailer to make way for the new T-Mobile sign to be installed in the future. 209328

Sports

Safeco Field letters removed

Five-year-old Azaria found the perfect fit with the first dress and had to be persuaded to not wear it home.
A tiara completes the outfit.

(The Ruby Room is mainly to outfit young women, generally teens, for special occasions)

clothing for those needing special garments for special occasions, but do not have the resources.

Saturday Jan. 26, 2019

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Local News

She found a gem of a dress, thanks to the Ruby Room VIEW

Entertainment

Seattle R&B/soul/pop band The Dip — featuring Tom Eddy (left), Mark Hunter (center) and Jacob Lundgren (right) — celebrate their new album with two sold-out shows this weekend.

The Dip delivers smoldering sophomore album with 2-night Neumos blowout

Editorials & Opinion

Pull back the curtain to find out the truth about Venezuela’s oppressive regime | Op-Ed

Featured Columnist

Trump’s ‘emergency’ plunges the nation into peril

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A new meaning to ‘crushing it’ with trade war

Sports

Quarterback Jacob Eason on the first day of spring practice for the UW football team on March 28, 2018. 205675

Analysis: How does UW’s QB situation measure up with the rest of the Pac-12?

Featured Columnist

After a season of change a year ago, Seahawks appear pretty set at tight end heading into 2019

Featured Video Stories

The Destination took a lot from Dylan Hatfield when it sank in the Bering Sea two years ago — his brother, his best friend, and his mentor. "Everything has changed. It's a whole different job now," he says. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

No Return: "How much is a life worth?" (6:51)

Sledding, snowshoeing, shoveling, biking, cross-country skiing and.... kayaking? Puget Sound residents are coping with and enjoying the half foot of snow or more that accumulated on February 9, 2019. (Seattle Times Staff)

Saturday snow day in and around Seattle (2:23)

In the Rose Adagio, a ballerina stays on pointe during a sequence of balances. PNB's Leta Biasucci demonstrates the dance and talks about its place in the story of 'Sleeping Beauty'. (Ramon Dompor & Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

Sleeping Beauty's Rose Adagio (3:18)

The National Archives at Seattle house 50,000 case files from the Chinese Exclusion Act. Files created to discriminate against Chinese laborers now hold value for descendants seeking detailed family information. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

'It's like reading someone's life': Seattle's Chinese Exclusion... (5:23)

Scenes captured by our staff in and around Seattle as snow began falling around noon on February 8, 2019. This is the second snowstorm in the Puget Sound region in less than a week. (Seattle Times Staff)

Scenes from the snowstorm in Seattle on Friday (2:49)

Puget Sound’s orcas were shot and reviled, then caught and sold to aquariums around the world. But an orca capture in Budd Inlet was a turning point, leading to the end of an era.
(Lauren Frohne, Steve Ringman & Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

Hostile Waters: To Catch an Orca (6:41)

Rosenda Strong was last seen on Oct. 2, heading to the Legends Casino in Toppenish. The 31-year-old mother of four is the latest case of a missing indigenous woman on or near the Yakama Nation Reservation. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

"We want answers, we want justice": March for a missing woman in... (4:05)

Bounty hunter Scott Gribble recorded video on May 20, 2016, as he attempted to capture Toni Schartow’s son for jumping bail. During the encounter, Gribble shot her in the face with a rubber bullet. (Ellen Banner & Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

"He just started shooting me" (3:48)

Life

Clyde Robinson, 97, of Seattle, is one of the few remaining Buffalo Soldiers. He served in the Army during World War II.

Robinson photographed at his home in Seattle August 22, 2018. 207511

Seattle’s last buffalo soldier, 98, doesn’t want black regiments’ history to ‘fade out’ WATCH

Featured Columnist

Greg Nickels: Snow is beautiful — when you’re not mayor

Pacific NW Magazine

Entry into Kim Spadafora’s Windermere garden is through one of two polycarbonate gates that are illuminated by the sunlight passing through it.

Photographed on September 28, 2018.
The Kim Spadafora garden is a Pacific NW Magazine cover story.

Outdoor Living 2019: Charismatic colors blend with special spaces in a Windermere garden that nurtures gratitude

Travel

Growing up on the road showed me there's plenty of adventure beyond luxury travel