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The sun sets behind the Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain station in Burnaby, Canada. A great deal of construction is being done around the station. Shot Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

Is this the future of Seattle transit? A look at Vancouver, B.C. — a city that figured it out years ago

With three fully-built light-rail lines and an interconnected bus network, Vancouver’s transportation system is like Seattle’s, just a couple of decades in the future. But the Canadian city differs in its rock-solid commitment to building housing right on top of transit.

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Mustapha “Moose” Math, a broker with John L. Scott, shows a property at 4925 29th Ave South South Seattle. The mid-century rambler is an estate sale and will be sold as-is, and likely list somewhere around $800,000. Photographed Thursday, April 5, 2018. 205898
Real Estate

Home prices have risen fastest in South Seattle, as citywide median nears $820,000  VIEW

A bowhead whale swims just under the surface with its mouth open in Fram Strait.
Singing whales

UW research: Listen to the ‘crazy, crazy’ songs of bowhead whales

Seismologist Lucy Jones, center, stands directly on the San Andreas fault and points to an area of the hillside where the rocks abruptly change, a sign of where the fault is located, on May 3, 2017, in Indio, Calif. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS) 1204275
Earthquakes

Tips on surviving The Big One in the Pacific Northwest from 'The Beyoncé of earthquakes'

Environment

Bear cam: Watch this livestream of a Montana black bear napping inside a tree  WATCH

Times Watchdog

Washington Department of Licensing details how often it gave residents’ info to immigration officials

The state Department of Licensing now says it responded to hundreds of requests for information from immigration-enforcement officials over an eight-month stretch — before a Seattle Times story uncovered the practice.

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Fund For The Needy

Kindering early childhood special educator Caroline Lemmens uses a flashlight as a visual guide on a drum, while working with 21-month-old Franco Calvo, of Kirkland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, in Bothell. Calvo, who has Down Syndrome, goes to the weekly program to work on developmental delay and sensory exercises. 204147

Fund For The Needy raises $1.62 million in latest community campaign

Wendy Montiel 52, serves dinner at the Seattle City Hall Shelter, staffed by Salvation Army – William Booth Center, which provides beds for 75 men and women Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Montiel, who volunteers and sleeps at the shelter, feels good helping others in her role.

Dear Seattle Times Reader: Your Fund For The Needy donations change lives

Eric Goad and Rebecca Baldwin, (on couch) a couple receiving housing and assistance from Hopelink, watch as their daughters Amelia, 8 (at left) and Arria, 3 1/2, pose for a photo. The family just moved into their new Bellevue home two months ago and are very happy to have their own place. This is a story about the work that Hopelink does for families dealing with homelessness, a lack of food other issues. Baldwin and Goad and their two daughters, live in a Hopelink housing complex in Bellevue. They went through the organization’s family development program.

For 3 years, this Eastside family slept on the floor. Now there are beds and couches — and home.

Lanita Delk watches as her adopted daughters Stephanie and Victoria (right) joke with bows and each other as they create holiday gift boxes, filled with treats on Dec, 6, 2017. The girls are longtime clients of Treehouse, which allows them to not miss an opportunity and provides support in school and beyond. 204249

Foster kids beating the odds: Treehouse program helps Washington teens graduate in surprising numbers

Politics

Former King County Democrats chair quits county job; gets $37,700 settlement

Bailey Stober will receive about four months of severance pay in exchange for promising not to sue the county, according to the settlement agreement that said he was resigning from the $98,000-a-year job "in lieu of termination."

Project Homeless

Darryl Taylor, 55, lives at Licton Springs Village, a low-barrier tent and tiny house camp that has now been operating near Aurora Avenue North and North 85th Street for a year. Low barrier shelters are where residents do not have to be off drugs and alcohol to be admitted. Some neighbors say there has been an uptick in property crime and trespassing since it has opened, but many residents in Licton Springs Village are grateful for the camp. “It help me turn my life around,” said Taylor, who lost two toes and part of his finger to frostbite while living on the streets of Seattle. “It kind of saved me.”

This tiny house village allows drugs. Should it have been put in a high drug-traffic area?

About Project Homeless

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.

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Transportation

Bicyclists ride on Dunsmuir St. towards the intersection of Hornby St. in Vancouver, B. C. Friday, February 16, 2018. The intersection is the first intersection of protected bike lanes downtown, built around 2010.

As Seattle struggles with bike lanes, Vancouver, B.C., has won the battle

Education

Agency warns retailers not to sell Juul e-cigarette to kids

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown on underage use of a popular e-cigarette brand following months of complaints from parents, politicians and school administrators. The Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to 40 retail and online stores as part of a monthlong operation against illegal sales of Juul to...

Education Lab

Guest essay: How the right approach to math can reduce the achievement gap

As racial-equity teams spread across Seattle schools, UW researchers want to know if they actually work

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

First drug approved for most common inherited kidney disease

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to slow kidney decline in patients with the most common inherited kidney disease. Jynarque (jihn-AR'-kew), from Japan's Otsuka Pharmaceutical, was approved Tuesday for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The progressive genetic disorder is the fourth-leading cause of kidney failure. It...

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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Mia Harrison, festival director for the ByDesign Film Festival, and Alexandra Polk take photos at Los Angeles fashion designer Pierre Davis’ show ““No Sesso Until Now” at Love City Love in Capitol Hill Friday, April 13, 2018. Davis, a former Seattle resident, designs gender-fluid clothing showcasing vibrant fabrics, textures and shapes. Davis’ show was one the architecture and design events featured in this year’s ByDesign Film Festival held April 12-15 at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. Harrison, who curated the festival, said she wanted to call attention to representation and visibility in the design world. All ticket sales and donations support artists and designers of color and providing platforms for them to share their work. “Curating this festival wasn’t about just bringing pieces of art together, it was about creating conversation between people who are using design to reconstruct the way their communities are represented,” she says.
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Seattle’s ByDesign Film Festival reflects, reconstructs community  VIEW

Three-year-olds Alma Duman, left and Echo Cabassi, participate in a Passover seder at the Early Childhood Center at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle. Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Students learn about the different symbols of the holiday including matzah (held by Alma) which represents that the Jews didn’t have time for bread to raise before fleeing Egypt and eggs which symbolizes korban chagigah (festival sacrifice) as well as hope and prayer for the future and the birth of spring. Passover begins at sundown on Friday. Photographed on March 29, 2018.
Gallery

Preparing for Passover  VIEW

Asher Maria (center) and other students lead thousands during the March For Our Lives protest in honor of the Parkland shooting from Cal Anderson Park to the Seattle Center in Seattle on Saturday. 205739
Local News

Participants in Seattle’s March for Lives protest gun violence  VIEW

Pedestrians march their way through a flurry of snow hitting Capitol Hill as they walk up E. Roy Street in the late morning.
Local News

A flurry of snow hits Seattle  VIEW

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I-90 crossing Lake Washington, looking east towards Bellevue. Bellevue’s Somerset neighborhood is at above right of bridge. Shot from the Columbia Tower Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Body of water is Lake Washington. Cascades are in background.

Washingtonians are less religious than ever, Gallup poll finds | FYI Guy

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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

Crime

Former Seattle Academy teacher pleads guilty to possessing child pornography

The former teacher denied that he ever touched his students, although he acknowledged fantasizing about them and, in a few instances, had "morphed" photographs of students onto pornographic images, according to the criminal complaint.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

On Monday, April 23, Kite boarder Erik Sandstorm (cq) heads out across puget sound near Golden Gardens park, with the Olympic Mountains as a backdrop. LO LO 206059

Summer already? Seattle-area temps match average highs for July

Seattle Sketcher

A perfect — and perfectly weird — view of Seattle’s breakneck growth

Take a rainy-day tour of a 111-year-old Seattle steam plant

Meet the Seattle tugboat that made history across three centuries: the Arthur Foss

A case of Funko Fever spreads at Emerald City Comic Con

Environment

On Monday, April 23, Kite boarder Erik Sandstorm (cq) heads out across puget sound near Golden Gardens park, with the Olympic Mountains as a backdrop. LO LO 206059

Summer already? Seattle-area temps match average highs for July

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Northwest Wanderings

Michael Cox’s sons Aaron Gallegos, front, and Adam Cox descend from the roof of one of Horizon House’s four towers. Thursday April 5, 2018 NNWanderings

Window washers get a bird’s-eye view of Seattle  VIEW

Domonique White (CQ), a resident at Hope Place, says about her “Sunday best” new dress, “I am rocking this.” Residents of Hope Place, recovering addicts, etc with new clothes donated. REF to more photos online Northwest Wanderings Wed. April 28, 2018

New outfits bring fresh outlooks for Seattle women recovering from hard times  VIEW

John Stone’s visits to herbalist Juliana Chin Isogai are documented each time with photo of his tongue, a practice she learned from her father Hen Sen Chin. She says the “tongue represents the heart.” ( daughter of the late herbalist Hen Sen Chin, in her business in Renton, Washington) Northwest Wanderings Sat. Feb 3, 20178

For Renton herbalist, a tongue tells no lies about ailments  VIEW

Jim Sullivan’s 1933 Plymouth PC, is a very rare coupe. “It’s a survivor,” a six cylinder with 90 horsepower. “It was meant be be driven up to 40 mph. Roads were different then.” Only about 8,900 were produced. If you rode in the rumble seat, prepare to be wind-blown. Ref to more photos online Jim’s Classic Garage in Gig Harbor, WA, Wed. Jan 17, 2018. Northwest Wanderings Jim Sullivan restores and sells classic cars

A 77-year-old Cadillac that doesn’t run? No problem. This garage works on anything built from 1886 to 1970.  VIEW

Marijuana

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters during the Associated Press’ annual Legislative Preview, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee and other Washington state leaders slammed the Trump administration’s move to roll back Obama-era leniency on legalized marijuana, saying they’ll defend the will of the state voters who approved the initiative five years ago. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to Bill Maher: ‘We’ve got the best weed’

Science

EPA chief signs proposal limiting science used in decisions

WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has signed a proposed rule that would restrict the types of scientific studies regulators can use to determine the impact of pesticide and pollution exposure on human health. Pruitt says the change would increase transparency in the agency's decision-making by requiring all underlying data used in...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness