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The Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia, Washington, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times) — (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)

Local Politics

WA Supreme Court upholds capital gains tax

The measure is expected to bring in $500 million a year. It applies a 7% tax to profits over $250,000, with plans to spend it on early childhood programs.

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High school and college students are invited to showcase and sell their work inside Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila.

Local News

Southcenter mall invites local students to show, sell their artwork

The heat pump and line set outside the house. Michael O’Neill and his wife Katie Raser live in West Seattle in an older home and recently went through a heat pump installation that has not gone totally according to plan, photographed on Friday, February 3, 2023.

Local Politics

Here’s how Washington senators want to use climate dollars

From right, The King County Courthouse, Administrative Building and Corrections Facility in Seattle on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Dow Constantine is proposing redeveloping the county government’s campus to bring a mix of residential and commercial uses to the area.

Traffic Lab

How Sound Transit’s superstation switch could ripple through Seattle

Bakery owner Remo Borracchini

Food & Drink

Remo Borracchini of beloved Seattle bakery Borracchini’s dies at 92

Times Watchdog

Downtown Seattle, on 2nd Avenue, is seen on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. 223160

Restaurant workers, have you filed a complaint against your workplace? We want to hear from you

Politics

Governor Jay Inslee holds a press conference after touring an encampment that was recently cleared along the north edge of South Park, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 35 people were previously living here. The state began its Right of Way Safety Initiative a year ago to try to clear encampments from some state Right of Ways, saying it was a safety hazard to drivers and state employees who needed to maintain these areas. They’ve been trying to do it the “right way” and make meaningful offers of shelter to people living there.

Seattle lowered its standards all the way under a bridge | Danny Westneat

Columnists

Gene Balk / FYI Guy

Marcus Harrison Green

Project Homeless

Interest by King County in purchasing this Kirkland La Quinta Hotel, and converting it into services for the homeless, is meeting resistance in the community.

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Kirkland OKs agreement to use La Quinta for housing homeless people

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

From right, The King County Courthouse, Administrative Building and Corrections Facility in Seattle on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Dow Constantine is proposing redeveloping the county government’s campus to bring a mix of residential and commercial uses to the area.

How Sound Transit’s superstation switch could ripple through Seattle

Photography

Washington Huskies guard Jayda Noble pokes the ball away from Kansas State guard Gabby Gregory during the second quarter. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)

Husky Basketball

Photos: UW vs. Kansas State in Super 16 of the WNIT VIEW

Ole Miss’ Madison Scott (24) fouls Louisville’s Mykasa Robinson as she shoots in the lane in the first quarter. 223350

College Basketball

Photos: Louisville vs. Ole Miss in NCAAW Sweet 16 VIEW

Colorado’s Kindyll Wetta (15) puts up a shot against Iowa in the first half. 223349 (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

College Basketball

Photos: Iowa vs. Colorado in NCAAW Sweet 16 VIEW

A demo crew from Hoffman Construction Company from left to right: Nicholas Jimenez ,Anthony Elliott, and Skyler Denny salvage douglas fir rough cut wood from the roof of the Carlyon House, also known as the Blue House, during its deconstruction on the Capitol Campus in Olympia, Washington, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. From left to right: Its deconstruction is part of the Legislative Campus Modernization (LCM) project to replace and renovate aging buildings on the West Capitol Campus. The house was occupied by members of the Capitol Press Corps between the early 1980s and 2021. The Capitol Press Corps moved into new space in the Legislative Building earlier this year. DES is taking steps to offset the loss of those historic buildings through a process called historic mitigation. Salvage, starting with the roof, is the first step in deconstruction.

Local News

End of story: Capitol’s press houses torn down VIEW

Education

** FILE ** Michelangelo’s marble statue of “David”, is seen in Florence’s Galleria dell’ Accademia in this Monday, May 24, 2004 file photo. The heroic David could be on the move after 135 years in the museum designed to showcase the marble masterpiece. The impact of mass tourism on Florence’s city center is forcing officials to consider remedies, including one drastic proposal to move the 4.34 meter (14 foot) statue from the Galleria dell’Accademia to the edge of the city where a new theater is planned. Florence Mayor Leonardo Dominici told, during a press conference at Foreign press Association, Thursday Jan. 17, 2008, that congestion is a problem, along with the deposits of chewing gum stuck to the building by idle tourists waiting to view the 500-year-old nude sculpture. (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi, File) FLO108

Florida parents upset by Michelangelo’s ‘David’ force out principal

Education Lab

Bremerton School Board approves settlement with coach over on-field prayer

Seattle student board members seek ways to make positions more influential

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

A home Covid-19 rapid test showing a positive result.

COVID’s still out there. Here’s what to do if you get it now.

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

Vans await renting Friday afternoon the U-Haul rental store on Aurora Ave in Shoreline, Washington on March 24, 2023.

More than one in 10 Seattle-area residents contemplating a move | FYI Guy

Law & Justice

Montenegrin police officers escort an individual who is believed to be one of the most wanted fugitives, South Korean citizen, Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, Friday, March 24, 2023. South Korea’s Justice Ministry on Friday confirmed the arrest of Kwon and another unidentified individual linked to the cryptocurrency crash and said it will proceed with steps to extradite them to South Korea. Both South Korea and Montenegro are signees to the European Convention on Extradition. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

A crypto fugitive’s very public life while on the run

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

Interest by King County in purchasing this Kirkland La Quinta Hotel, and converting it into services for the homeless, is meeting resistance in the community.

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Kirkland OKs agreement to use La Quinta for housing homeless people

Environment

Bob Maharry sits inside his fishing boat docked at Pier 45 in San Francisco, Monday, March 20, 2023. This would usually be a busy time of year for Maharry and his crew as salmon fishing season approaches. On April 7, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the regulatory group that advises federal officials, will take action on what to do about the 2023 season for both commercial and recreational salmon fishing. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) CAGV307 CAGV307

California, Oregon face salmon fishing ban amid low stocks VIEW

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

Eagle Island ice cap

Many Antarctic glaciers are never snow-free. See how remarkably different this year is.

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