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Kimber Henegar carries personal items during an encampment removal on South Weller Street in Seattle on Thursday. Henegar says she had trouble finding social workers onsite, and planned to start her own encampment elsewhere. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) — Kimber Henegar carries personal items during an encampment removal on South Weller Street in Seattle on Thursday. Henegar says... (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

Project Homeless

Major encampment removal in Little Saigon draws protesters during coronavirus pandemic

The city, citing public health and safety issues, has now removed four encampments in the span of a month. VIEW

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In this May 6, 2020 photo, a person rides past a boarded up and closed Old Navy clothing store in downtown Seattle. The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark evidence of the damage the coronavirus has done to a now-shattered economy. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW205 WATW205

Economy

‘Hundreds of millions of dollars’ lost in Washington to unemployment fraud amid coronavirus joblessness surge

Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, left, speaks during the annual AP Legislative Preview, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Local Politics

Washington GOP state lawmakers call for a special legislative session to address budget, coronavirus crisis

Seattle police are asking the public for help in identifying a man who attacked and spat on an Asian couple in downtown Seattle last weekend, blaming them for the coronavirus pandemic.

Crime

Seattle police searching for man who attacked, blamed Asian couple for coronavirus pandemic WATCH

The City of Seattle wants to consider replacing the Community Center and adjacent Evans Pool, photographed Monday, March 27, 2017, through a partnership with some as yet unidentified nonprofit organization.

Local News

Where to put the pool? You have one more day to weigh in on Green Lake’s rebuilding survey

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 metro bus drives down 22nd Avenue West as Magnolia residents salute the driver for their service by blowing bubbles and cheering on Friday.

Shortly after the stay-at-home order, Lisa Anderson invited her neighbors to get together, and practice social distancing, every Friday to thanks to the metro drivers as they drive down 22nd Avenue West.

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‘The Ride of Pride’: Seattle neighbors offer a weekly salute to Metro bus drivers with bubbles and joy VIEW

Local News Photography

Paddling an outrigger, a boater sprints through the Montlake Cut heading west during what usually would be the Opening Day of Boating Season on the first Saturday in May. But events are cancelled and no crowds line the Montlake Bridge nor thousands along the cut because of the coronavirus. Ref to more photos online.

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Local News

A surreal Opening Day for boating season: No races, no parade, no crowds VIEW

After meeting at the parking lot of the Burke Museum at UW, people joined in a car caravan and headed to Trader Joe’s Friday, May 1, 2020. The ILPS (International League of Peoples’ Struggle) is holding a community caravan on May Day. This group is rallying around workers who they deem essential, not disposable. 213828

Local News

Scenes from May Day 2020 in Seattle VIEW

Thursday, April 23, 2020 Beth Jump is a stay-at-home mom in Redmond who went to her first political rally in Olympia because she’s upset that she can’t get the help she wants for her son who developed a blood clot. Sheâ€™s holding the sign she had while protesting.

Local News

Here’s why some people in Washington are protesting the coronavirus shutdown VIEW

Well distanced, and masked, workers pick the remaining tulips in the fields north of Fir Island Road in the Skagit Valley on Friday afternoon, April 24, 2020. The annual Skagit Tulip Festival was cancelled this year due to coronavirus.
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Local News

2020: The year the bulbs went out at Skagit Valley Tulip Festival VIEW

Education

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‘People don’t understand quite how bad this is going to be’: Washington colleges brace for coronavirus funding impact

Education Lab

Watch: Should I enroll my kids in virtual schools? Ed Lab Live tackles that and more

Seattle schools to offer summer school to all students starting in July, continuing coronavirus online classes

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

Death and denial in Brazil’s Amazon capital

MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — As the white van approached Perfect Love Street, one by one chatting neighbors fell silent, covered their mouths and noses and scattered. Men in full body suits carried an empty coffin into the small, blue house where Edgar Silva had spent two feverish days gasping for air before drawing his last... VIEW

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.

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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

FILE – In this May 8, 2020, file photo, respiratory therapist Neeru Kaur, right, and other medical staff work on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, which is part of Seattle-area health care system UW Medicine, in Seattle. The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday, May 16, 2020. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) WAET201 WAET201

Washington state’s actual coronavirus death toll may be higher than current tallies, health officials say

Crime

Seattle police investigate North Seattle homicide; 59-year-old man fatally stabbed

A 59-year-old man was fatally stabbed at the north entrance to the Home Depot store on Aurora Avenue North. Seattle police homicide detectives are investigating.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

Seattle’s new Stay Healthy Streets keep us moving during the coronavirus pandemic

Mother’s Day musings from Flower World in Maltby

As Earth Day’s 50th anniversary nears, the golden age of ‘e-riders’ may also be upon us

A beacon of hope shines bright from historic Mukilteo Lighthouse

Eastside

Michael Kelly helps Phil Parsons, owner of DBH Handymen, as they board up a windows outside Mr. Darcy’s in Belltown on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Many bars and restaurants that are closed downtown have started boarding up their doors and windows. A few places have been vandalized. 213406

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Environment

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EPA says federal dams raise water temperature in Snake River

Weather

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Science

Stormy weather puts damper on SpaceX’s 1st astronaut launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stormy weather is threatening to delay SpaceX’s first astronaut launch. A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. It will be the first time astronauts launch from... VIEW