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The Pile River flows into Lake Iliamna at the base of the Alaskan Peninsula, headwaters of the Bristol Bay region, which is one of the world’s richest salmon fisheries. (Luis Sinco / The Los Angeles Times via TNS) — (Luis Sinco / The Los Angeles Times via TNS)

Local News

EPA proposes protections for world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery

The EPA proposed protections for Alaska waters home to one of the world’s biggest salmon spawning grounds, a move that would effectively block attempts to develop an open mine in Bristol Bay.

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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

Health

Monkeypox in the COVID era: Here are the key differences between the viruses

Seagulls surround a pedestrian, who prefers not to be named, who was feeding the birds during sunny afternoon on Alki Beach in West Seattle Monday, May 23, 2022. The National Weather Service predicts Tuesday and Wednesday to be mostly cloudy and for rain to possibly return on Thursday.
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Weather

After a cloudy week, here's how Memorial Day Weekend weather is shaping up

Seattle police Sunday April 11, 2021.

Local Politics

Seattle City Council OKs more than $1M for police incentives, recruitment despite opposition

Wed. Sept. 20, 2017. Looking south from Hollywood Hill area of Woodinville down the 45th Legislative District that will vote on a Senate seat that will determine whether Democrats will have complete control in Olympia. 203543

Real Estate

Two WA cities among ‘most popular’ housing markets, report says. Here’s what’s luring buyers.

Times Watchdog

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The King County Jail is seen from the street Monday, May 16, 2022, in Seattle, Wash. 220386

As jail deaths spiked, King County failed to comply with new state law | Times Watchdog

Politics

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee speaks about the latest round of covid/government mandates in his office at the state capitol in Olympia Wednesday, November 3, 2021.

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Gov. Inslee, Lt. Gov. Heck test positive for coronavirus, with mild symptoms

Columnists

Gene Balk / FYI Guy

Marcus Harrison Green

Project Homeless

A Compass Housing Alliance staff member prepares to open the Compass Day Center to guests who are experiencing homelessness where they can access meals, mental health counseling, nursing, and other service.

King County Regional Homelessness Authority is slow to ink contracts — nonprofits feel the pinch

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

All lanes of southbound Interstate 5 are closed on the Ship Canal Bridge after a driver went missing following a two-car rollover collision that occurred around 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Body pulled from water hours after crash on Ship Canal Bridge

Photography

Coach Heather Tarr sends Jadelyn Allchin home after her 3-run blast opened up the game for Washington in the 5th.

The 13th-seeded Washington Huskies played the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks in NCAA Regional Softball Friday, May 20, 2022 at Husky Softball Stadium, in Seattle, WA. 220420

Sports

Photos: UW win NCAA softball regional opener against Lehigh VIEW

Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle Storm vs. Los Angeles Sparks – 052022

Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd passes between Los Angeles Sparks guard Brittney Sykes and forward Nneka Ogwumike during the second quarter Friday, May 20, 2022, in Seattle, Wash.

Sports

Photos: LA Sparks at Storm VIEW

Under extremely windy conditions on Lake Washington, Alan Allegret bolts onto the water with his windfoil during weekly windsurf races off New Castle Beach Park in Bellevue, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Bellevue. According to City League Series race organizer Greg Mejlaender, the winds were anywhere between 20 to 40 miles per hour. “If anyone gets to the buoy and back we’ll crown them champion and the rest of us are in survival mode,” joked Mejlaender.

Local News

Windsurfing race in Bellevue a battle

Museum of Flight – Boeing Field – B-29 bomber flight – 051722

Meg Godlewski’s bomber jacket with all of its patches accents the nose of Doc, one of only two World War II B-29 bombers still flying, as it soars over the Seattle area Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

The visit is part of the “B-29 Doc History Restored Tour.” After the plane’s arrival at the Museum, it will remain on-site for routine maintenance and crew changes until May 19, when public tours and flights begin.

Public ground and cockpit tours will be available May 19-20 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on May 21- 22, from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Rides in the plane will be during the mornings of May 21-22, and are sold out as of this writing, but additional flights might be added–for updates check www.b29doc.com/rides

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Local News

‘Doc,’ the Boeing B-29 bomber, lands at Museum of Flight VIEW

Education

Seattle Pacific University students and faculty assemble outside Demaray Hall on the university campus, tuesday, May 24, 2022 stage a walkout to protest the Board of Trustees deciding to maintain a discriminatory hiring policy against people in same-sex relationships. 220475

Seattle Pacific University students stage walkout over upheld discriminatory hiring policy

Education Lab

Seattle Pacific University students stage walkout over upheld discriminatory hiring policy

Parents at 15 Seattle schools band together for more equitable fundraising

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

Fairfax Behavioral Health is photographed in Kirkland, Wash. Wednesday, June 12, 2019. 208427 208427

Fairfax Behavioral Health in Kirkland closes youth unit, shortly after state cites safety violation

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.

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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

Older and newer apartments are side-by-side west of the University of Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2022 in Seattle. This goes with an FYI Guy column about three census tracts with the largest income gaps.

How does your Seattle neighborhood compare for income inequality? | FYI Guy

Law & Justice

A portrait of Andrea Churna and her child Michael: Churna who was a Redmond mother of a 7-year-old at the time was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after calling dispatchers for help in Sept. 2020. 219048

Redmond City Council approves $7.5M settlement to family of woman killed by police in 2020

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

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

Fairfax Behavioral Health is photographed in Kirkland, Wash. Wednesday, June 12, 2019. 208427 208427

Fairfax Behavioral Health in Kirkland closes youth unit, shortly after state cites safety violation

Environment

Permit approved for large solar power farm in Yakima County

A large solar power farm in eastern Yakima County could begin operation sometime in 2024.

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

In this infrared image from video made available by NASA, the Boeing Starliner capsule uses parachutes as it descends to land at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (NASA via AP) NASA101 NASA101

Boeing capsule lands back on Earth after space shakedown WATCH

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness

Northwest Wanderings

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.

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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

Gianni Aiello, Naked Giants bassist,, gets his rock ‘n’ roll kicks in his hightop Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers at Bumbershoot. The band appears this summer at ZooTunes at the Woodland Park Zoo. 216907

Seattle style: What are your shoes saying about you? VIEW