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FAME Equity Alliance and Catholic Community Services celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth Thomas Homes, a 119-unit affordable housing complex in Rainier Beach on Thursday. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times) — (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)

Local Politics

New affordable housing planted in heart of Seattle’s Rainier Beach

A new housing complex named for a pioneering Black nurse just opened in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood. There are 119 apartments at the Elizabeth Thomas Homes. VIEW

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Seattle Public Utilities plans to announce significant rate increases. The Tolt River filtration system is one of the system’s major infrastructure upgrades. The plant provides 120 million gallons of water a day to customers in Seattle and suburban communities and is the city’s first filtration and ozonation facility.
The Tolt River reservoir is protected within the gated watershed above Carnation.

Environment

Rare drought advisory issued for 1.5 million Seattle Public Utilities users

Nintendo is partnering with the Seattle Aquarium to bring an immersive Animal Crossing experience to visitors this Fall. Characters from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, an island-themed Nintendo Switch game, will be popping up throughout the museum on Oct. 7.

Local News

Seattle Aquarium, Nintendo make waves together with Animal Crossing exhibit

Thursday, April 4, 2019 Grand Coulee Dam. 209797

Environment

$200M pledged to return salmon to Upper Columbia Basin in Biden deal with tribes

520 between Montlake and I-5, over Portage Bay Saturday afternoon in Seattle, Washington on September 16, 2023. 225005

Traffic Lab

As prices skyrocket on WA megaprojects, few contractors want the jobs

Times Watchdog

LOWER DUWAMISH DREDGING
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Toxic legacy of Seattle’s only river could cost Boeing, taxpayers $1 billion. Talks over who pays more are secret

Politics

LOWER DUWAMISH DREDGING
031217 River water spills from a 7 1/2 cubic yard bucket as it lifts contaminated soil from the bottom of the Lower Duwamish in South Park. 0428630825

Toxic legacy of Seattle’s only river could cost Boeing, taxpayers $1 billion. Talks over who pays more are secret

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Project Homeless

Can licensed tent villages ease California’s homelessness epidemic? This nonprofit thinks so VIEW

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

Robert J. Mason was riding his bicycle on West Spokane Street in Seattle when he was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on July 15, 2022.

Driver in Seattle cyclist’s hit-and-run death sentenced to 4 years in prison

Photography

The throw to J.P. Crawford isn’t in time to catch the stealing Zack Gelof in the first ininng. The Oakland Athletics played the Seattle Mariners Monday, August 28, 2023 at T-Mobile Park, in Seattle, WA. 224819

Mariners

Photos: Mariners shutout A’s, 7-0 VIEW

Chicago Sky guard Dana Evans pokes the ball away from Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd during the fourth quarter. 224833

Storm

Photos: Storm dumped by Sky VIEW

Mariners center fielder Julio Rodríguez celebrates after hitting a two-run home run Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, as the Mariners take on the Royals at T-Mobile Park in Seattle.

Mariners

Photos: Mariners try to stay hot vs. Royals VIEW

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Mariners

Photos: Mariners defeat Royals, 7-5 VIEW

Education

To prep for that moment in the spotlight, the practice on this Wednesday evening involved a snippet of “Holiday Road,” written by Lindsey Buckingham for the 1983 film “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

Mercer Island High School band to play at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade WATCH

Education Lab

One Seattle-area school’s solution to worsening student behavior

Lowe’s gifts $750,000 to Seattle Colleges’ Wood Technology Center

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

Masks available outside Liv Grace’s home in Philadelphia on Sept. 12, 2023. Grace, who was born with a rare immune deficiency related to lupus, experienced three respiratory infections in four months after visiting medical providers. (Rachel Wisniewski for the New York Times)

In hospitals, viruses are everywhere. masks are not

Times Watchdog

A still from a video shows former Tukwila police officer Nick Hogan used an unsanctioned takedown against Alvin Walker in 2011, breaking Walker’s elbow. Hogan was fired after multiple investigations found he violated department policy, and later pleaded guilty to violating a suspect’s civil rights, but he retained his state certification.

Fired, but still a cop: How Washington state’s decertification process leaves troubled officers with their guns

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.

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

The Seattle Skyline as seen from The Ivey on Boren Apartments Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023.

How Seattle is growing more racially diverse | FYI Guy

Law & Justice

Priest Pandit Srinivasa pours oil into the fire as, from left, Seema Sharma, Nidhi Mehta and Vasudha Sharma place offerings into the flames during the Shanti Puja for Jaahnavi Kandula Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at Denny Park in Seattle. A Shanti Puja is a Hindu ritual or prayer ceremony performed to invoke peace, harmony, and well-being. It is typically conducted during significant life events, such as after a person passes away like Jaahnavi Kandula.

Prayer ceremony held for Jaahnavi Kandula in wake of Seattle officer’s comments VIEW

Transparency vs. trauma

Witness Tom Townsend describes during an inquest hearing where he was standing during the confrontation of Damarius Butts and Seattle police officers. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Are inquests into King County killings by police worthwhile?

Seattle Sketcher

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show

Seattle’s Uptown got a new name, but a historic landmark shines on

The return of ‘Alki Fridays’ coed volleyball brings energy back to the beach

Eastside

To prep for that moment in the spotlight, the practice on this Wednesday evening involved a snippet of “Holiday Road,” written by Lindsey Buckingham for the 1983 film “National Lampoon’s Vacation.”

Mercer Island High School band to play at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade WATCH

Environment

The Lookout Fire, burning at the HJ Andrews Research Forest, will reset the agenda for scientists at the forest for decades to come. The fire was caused by a lighting strike on August 5, 2023, and is still burning. With 75 years of long-term data, the forest is uniquely positioned to be a place to study the effects of fire and firefighting on the forested landscape.

Decades of research burned in Oregon forest. What will scientists learn?

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

After summer’s extreme weather, more Americans see climate change as a culprit, AP-NORC poll shows

More Americans believe they've personally felt the impact of climate change because of recent extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States. VIEW

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness

Northwest Wanderings

The astronaut replica suit Ted Huetter of the Museum of Flight gets into is a special-commission for around $10,000 but is not suitable for use in space. It’s lightweight but warm.

from the Museum of Flight, Make-A-Wish people, virtual reality headsets at the Infinite experience.

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A spacesuit, a dream and virtual reality meet at ‘The Infinite’ in Tacoma VIEW

Paul Lundy cleans the surface of each key on Muriel Erickson’s 1968 Hermes in for its annual tuneup.

Paul Lundy at his Bremerton Office Machine Co. typewriter repair.

Thursday January 13, 2022

The owner of Bremerton Office Machine Company finds focus and fulfillment among timeworn typewriters — and their fans VIEW

Eleventh-grader Naazneen Vemmerath Kulangara (CQ) asks NASA astronaut Megan McArthur a question from the Museum of Flight. McArthur is aboard the International Space Station during a video hookup Saturday.

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Northwest Wanderings

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Seattle students virtually Zoom into space for a chat with astronaut Megan McArthur

Professional drummer Chris Anderson is into the beat he’s providing at First Avenue and Pike Street across from the Pike Place Market, busking for five hours.

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Busker brings A-list drumming pedigree to Pike Place Market WATCH