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Nickelsville Northlake tiny house village, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Seattle. In the background is the ship canal bridge. 208150 (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) — Nickelsville Northlake tiny house village, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Seattle. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)

Project Homeless

Seattle officials will allow controversial tiny house village to remain open, but not indefinitely

Residents at the Northlake tiny house village will be allowed to stay at least another three months at the site.

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Susan Desmond-Hellmann is welcomed as the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a meet and greet at the foundation headquarters in Seattle, WA on May 2, 2014. Susan Desmond-Hellmann speaking to the crowd.

Local News

Gates Foundation CEO, first with medicine and science background, steps down after 5 years

Local News

Washington state is No. 1. Of course! But which states are the worst?

Work is being done by construction workers in an equalization basin at the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station in Seattle Wednesday, December 4, 2019. The basin will take the energy out of water consisting of waste and storm water so it is moving slower. Then pumps will pump the water into other buildings (at top right) where the solid material and water will be separated. The water will be treated with UV and when clean will be sent to the Duwamish River. The solids will be recycled by the county. The purpose of the treatment station is to capture and treat all overflows during heavy rain events. It will be operational in 2022. The equalization basin can hold 1.5 million gallons. Once completed, the station can treat 70 million gallons of combined rain and wastewater per day that would have been discharged directly to the Duwamish River with no treatment during storm events.

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As costs soar, King County wants to redo water-pollution agreement with state and feds

If your LimeBikes has a dead battery, you’ll be waiting to ride it as long as these folks are waiting for the InterUrban the main crossroads of Fremont, 34th Avenue and Fremont.

The bikes appear to be having a dead battery problem and Mike Lindblom’s informal survey finds plenty.

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Traffic Lab

Half of Seattle bike-share rental bikes were inoperable in late-summer maintenance slump, city audit says WATCH

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

A vehicle with Uber signage in the windshield in New York on Dec. 5, 2019. In its first safety report, the ride-hailing company detailed sexual assaults, murders and fatal crashes through its platform. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times) XNYT170 XNYT170

As Uber releases sexual assault numbers, experts give tips on staying safe in rideshares

Local News Photography

Six-stories down, a tour group explores the large lock, or chamber drained for maintenance and repairs.

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Tour of the Ballard (Large) Lock.
It?s a century-old, empty and will be getting upgrades, repairs.

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Walking inside the empty Ballard Locks makes you feel small VIEW

With help from two of her chambelanes, honored escorts, Dulce Ramos practices the lift, part of a choreographed dance performed later in the evening during her Quinceanera celebration of her 15th birthday. The lift reveals checked sneakers to be exchanged for high heels signifying transition to womanhood.

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Northwest Wanderings on the
Quinceanera of Dulce Ramos, the day before her 15th birthday.
Traditional Mexican celebration,
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Dad had a secret plan for teen daughter’s quinceañera party in Marysville VIEW

Marie-Eve Logan carries her cat Puck with daughter Madison Logan, 8, and Jackson Logan, 6, in Batman costumes at the Halloween Pet Parade and costume contest at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle Sunday October 20, 2019. 211861

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Putting on the dog — and cat — at the Halloween Pet Parade VIEW

Native Americans and others watch as a huge group of Native Americans march along 5th Avenue through downtown Seattle from Westlake Park to Seattle City Hall Monday, October 14, 2019, to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Native Americans march through downtown Seattle to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day VIEW

Education

Washington state is No. 1. Of course! But which states are the worst?

Education Lab

Seattle Public Schools leans on history to change its gifted education program. Here’s what the archives show.

147,000 educators in Washington have one week left to enroll in new statewide health care plans

About Education Lab

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

Senators urge Medicare to allow seniors a drug plan do-over

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading senators are urging Medicare to allow seniors concerned about their drug plan pick for next year to switch if they received inaccurate information due to changes the agency made this sign-up season. The request from 14 Democrats and one Independent comes as open enrollment for prescription drug coverage ends at midnight...

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.

Times Watchdog

Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).

Crime

Rape-kit backlog grows at state crime lab — despite new money WATCH

Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side.

Thomas Wales

Crime

Unsolved slaying of Seattle prosecutor 16 years ago today has ‘hallmarks of a hit’

Special Report

‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

Data

Washington state is No. 1. Of course! But which states are the worst?

Crime

Helga Kahr, a Seattle attorney, left, stole $283K from her brain damaged client and was sentenced today, December 6, 2019. King County Superior Court Judge Kristin Richardson sentenced Kahr to 18 months. At right is her attorney, Miranda Maurmann. 212318 212318

How a Seattle attorney with ‘heart of gold’ ended up fleecing her brain-damaged client | Danny Westneat

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

All aboard! The Northwest Railway Museum’s Santa Train celebrates its 50th year of holiday cheer

Want a cool Seattle souvenir? Claim a free piece of the Alaskan Way Viaduct — while the stock lasts.

Check out the U District's skyline as it morphs for the first time in decades

Hidden on the Fremont Bridge is a teeny street-art doorway, fit for a mouse. Can you find it?

Eastside

Varisha Khan, in Redmond’s Downtown Park, will likely be among the first Muslim women elected to local office in Washington State. She currently leads by 66 votes out of 14,000. Tuesday Nov. 26, 2019
If she wins, she will have unseated the Republican incumbent.

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New Redmond City Council member is among state's first Muslim women elected to local office

Environment

Actress and activist Jane Fonda accompanied actresses Taylor Schilling second from left, and Kyra Sedgwick, right, along with others, march in downtown during the “Fire Drill Fridays” protest, calling on Congress for action to address climate change, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in Washington. A half-century after throwing her attention-getting celebrity status into Vietnam War protests, Fonda is now doing the same in a U.S. climate movement where the average age is 18. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) DCJL110 DCJL110

Climate change protesters block D.C. streets for hours

Weather

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Science

Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Prize laureates gathered in Stockholm to receive their awards took the opportunity Saturday to stress the importance of addressing climate change. Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics made the assessment Saturday ahead of next week's presentation of the prizes. The remarks come as a global summit on climate...