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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

The Legislative Building and the sundial is shown on a foggy morning at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Washington lawmakers violated state Constitution when rewriting police deadly force laws, judge says

Project Homeless

Good Samaritan injured in brutal machete attack in Burien

A man was admitted to Harborview in critical condition after he tried to stop an attack on a homeless man in Burien. Thanks to two cooks nearby, the assaults were stopped and two suspects were arrested.

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

Aerial shot of the Seattle skyline and I-5 freeway, running through frame vertically. Shot Friday, September 16, 2016, looking northbound.

I-5 repaving begins this weekend. Expect traffic delays as lanes are reduced

Education

Students gather in Occidental Square to protest gun violence in Seattle on Friday, April 20, 2018.

Students gather at Seattle’s Occidental Park for ‘We Won’t Be Next’ gun-control rally  VIEW

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

Grow your own Romaine lettuce for healthy, tasty salads or sandwich toppings. (Courtesy Bonnie Plants/www.bonnieplants.com/MCT) 1128001 Previous UID: 0422717840

Throw out all your romaine lettuce, CDC warns as E. coli spreads

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

Local News Photography

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
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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

Data

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

The Legislative Building and the sundial is shown on a foggy morning at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Washington lawmakers violated state Constitution when rewriting police deadly force laws, judge says

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

Man claims to be soldier about to be deployed, steals $100K diamond from Bellevue store

Fingerprints left on the glass door at Diamonds Inc. in Bellevue led police to a 26-year-old man who had posed as a newly engaged soldier about to be deployed. The 5.54-carat, marquise-cut diamond has not been found.

Seattle Sketcher

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

Ivar Haglund was a man of the people — and of the seagulls — in Seattle

Environment

Oregon ranchers, feds defeat 2003 bull trout lawsuit

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Ranchers and the federal government have defeated a 15-year-old environmentalist lawsuit that claimed grazing imperils threatened bull trout in Oregon's Malheur National Forest. U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman has dismissed the complaint, which was originally filed by the Oregon Natural Desert Association and the Center for Biological Diversity in early 2003....

Weather

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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

12-year-old Oregon student accused of giving pot candy to others

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a Springfield seventh-grader has been charged with three counts of marijuana delivery near a school for allegedly giving edible pot that looked like candy to several eighth-graders. Springfield Police Lt. Scott McKee said Thursday that officials learned of the incident Monday when an eighth-grader went to the office at...

Science

NASA steps up its planet-hunting game with the launch of TESS

The spacecraft will scan almost all of the sky for neighboring stars, searching for the dips in their brightness that signal the presence of a planet. The goal: to find planets that are smaller than Neptune, with a radius less than about four times that of Earth.

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness