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Wildlife Branch Chief Patti Happe leads goat capture operations on Hurricane Ridge of Olympic National Park. (Ramon Dompor / The Seattle Times)

Opioid darts, helicopters, refrigerator trucks: How to move a goat from one mountain range to another

The effort to move nearly 100 mountain goats from Olympic National Park to the North Cascades required refrigerator trucks, helicopters and the state ferry system. Because capture operations use the powerful synthetic opioid Carfentanil, people handling the goats had to carry opioid-reversing drugs. VIEW

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Julia Ladner successfully retrieves a pickle ball during a game with friends in the Bell Street Park, Saturday Sept 29, 2018. The street, which is a park-like corridor, was closed to traffic on Saturday between Third and Second Avenues.
In the background, concierge Lucas Vidana (tilda over “n”) sets up a giant chess board.

12-6pm concierge will be staffing Bell Street Park with an info cart and outdoor games for members of the public to play — giant chess, corn-hole and giant Connect Four.

Local Politics

These are Seattle’s fastest growing neighborhoods. Next year, they’ll lose their only community center.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, left, Lisa Brown, right. (Congress, AP)

Left: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is Eastern Washingtonâ€™s chief advocate in Congress. (2016 photo) (Courtesy of Congress)

Right: In this photo taken July 17, 2018, Lisa Brown, the presumed Democratic opponent to Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, poses for a photo in Colfax, Wash. McMorris Rodgers is sharply attacking Brown in the run-up to August’s primary election. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Local Politics

For the first time in decades, the race for Congress is close in Eastern Washington

Licton Springs residents Lilli Cox, 51, left, and friend Ricky Brown, 54, visit after being told by staff that the nonprofit SHARE/WHEEL will cease management of the tiny house village for people experiencing homelessness, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, in Seattle. Cox said she has a place to go. “Moving here gave me the courage and ability to change,” said Cox. 208143

Project Homeless

Seattle homeless camp that allows alcohol, drug use is losing its management as tensions escalate VIEW

Fred Mendoza, Washington State Public Stadium Authority Board Chair, from left, Adrian Hanauer, Seattle Sounders FC owner, Jenny Durkan, Seattle mayor, Dow Constantine, King County Executive and Chuck Arnold, Chief Operating Officer Seattle Seahawks and First & Goal Inc. pose for photos after a press conference about the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood Wednesday, June 13, 2018.
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Local News

Hosting 2026 World Cup would cost Seattle millions, but almost all money would be recovered, city says

Times Watchdog

Sally port entrance at left and control station at right — entrance to the Center for Forensic Services at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, WA shot September 24, 2018. 207853

Attacks on staff surge at Western State Hospital: ‘How bad does it have to get?’

Politics

The Legislative Building and the sundial is shown on a foggy morning, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The last day of the regular legislative session is Thursday, March 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Corporate dollars gushing into Washington’s initiative campaigns spur push for new campaign-finance laws

Project Homeless

Security guard charged with sexually assaulting patient at addiction facility in Auburn

Police said Ronald David Rodriguez attempted to rape a 22-year-old patient at Phoenix Rising as she slept.

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.

Transportation

Bikers use the special “bike lanes” along Second Avenue in downtown Seattle between Union Street and Pike Street on Friday morning September 21, 2018.

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Seattle coalition calls for city budget changes aimed at ‘making it easier to get around the city without driving’

Local News Photography

Juno chases bubbles at the Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park on Sunday, October 21. Hundreds of people dressed their pets and gathered in the park for food trucks, vendors, and prizes. 208214

Photo & Video

Check out this howling good time: Seattle pet owners get creative for Halloween parade VIEW

Morticia, the Corpse Flower, blooms at the Amazon Spheres on Friday night, October 19. Morticia was named by staff, and may not bloom again for another seven to ten years. 208210

Photo & Video

I smell like rotting flesh and people flock to see me. What am I? VIEW

At the entry point to The Vikings Begin exhibit is a replica of a 7th century metal helmet which can be touched. Artifacts in the exhibit are in display cases. Uppsala University’s museum, Gustavianum in Sweden, produced the exhibition opening Saturday at the Nordic Museum in Ballard. This helmet has more silver in it than the original which is more iron and copper. (see nordicmuseum.org for more info)

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Photo & Video

See swords, ships and a sorceress at Vikings exhibit at Nordic Museum VIEW

Crowds walk through “I Am Here” by LMNts: Plamena Milusheva, Scott Crawford and Chris Savage?on the Lake Union Park walking bridge during Borealis, a Festival of Light, in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The festival features light installations, multimedia video mapping showcases, live music, beer gardens, food trucks and street art performances from October 11-14, 2018. For more information, visit: https://borealisfestivaloflight.com.
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Arts & Entertainment

Borealis: a ‘magical, light, beautiful’ art event in South Lake Union VIEW

Education

Participants in Startup Weekend EDU pose for group photos after the competition winners were announced at the Seattle Public Library?s central branch October 7, 2018.

Should personal-finance management be taught in school? Readers sound off.

Education Lab

Seattle property-tax levy to test voters’ generosity toward education

Here's what you need to know about the city’s largest-ever education levy

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

In this image from video posted on YouTube on Aug 11, 2018, Michelle Drapeau, a stomach cancer patient in West Palm Beach, Fla., speaks about her condition. Drapeau set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for her medical expenses. Drapeau has raised about $7,000 for homeopathy and other alternative remedies since being diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer in February 2017. “I wanted to make sure I explored every and all options,” Drapeau said. “It’s vital for everyone to have that opportunity.” (Courtesy Michelle Drapeau via AP) NY380 NY380

Desperate & duped? GoFundMe means big bucks for dubious care

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

More Special Reports

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.

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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

Nearly half of Seattle property crime involves vehicles; see the risk level near you | FYI Guy

Crime

Former Everett firefighter sentenced in Wyoming sex-trafficking case

The former Arlington resident had previously been sentenced to eight months in jail in King County for arranging to pay for sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

Our views along the Seattle waterfront will never be the same

Black Market skate shop: Amid the Amazon boom, a little chunk of funky Seattle hangs on

An almost-secret garden: UW’s Medicinal Herb Garden has been growing for 107 years

New downtown Seattle tower busts out of the usual box at street level

Eastside

Kim Schrier, left, and Dino Rossi, right, seeking election to the U.S. House to represent the 8th Congressional District of Washington, in the 2018 election.

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Kim Schrier is a 2018 Democratic candidate seeking election to the U.S. House to represent the 8th Congressional District of Washington.
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Dino Rossi is a 2018 Republican candidate seeking election to the U.S. House to represent the 8th Congressional District of Washington

Kim Schrier and allies seek to highlight abortion stance of Dino Rossi in 8th District race

Environment

Carbon-fee opponents raise record $25.8M to defeat I-1631

The No on 1631 campaign contributions break the old record of $24.34 million raised by opponents of a 2013 ballot measure that unsuccessfully sought to require labeling of genetically modified food.

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

Experts caution study on plastics in humans is premature

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Austria say they've detected tiny bits of plastic in people's stool for the first time, but experts caution the study is too small and premature to draw any credible conclusion. Presenting their findings at a congress in Vienna on Tuesday, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna and the Environment...