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Friday, October 13, 2017. Pre-schoolers at the Martha & Mary KIDS child Care Center in Poulsbo rush to take cover under tables after Heather Beal had read them a book on earthquakes. Teacher Chelby Williams is at right.

Are you ready for the Big One? Look at what these folks have done — on their own — to prepare

From a shipping container stocked with supplies to duck-and-cover training for preschools, private citizens are pushing to prepare for an inevitable earthquake in our region. Thursday’s Great ShakeOut drill emphasizes the need to be ready.  VIEW

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Rain, rain, and more rain. With climate change it?ll be our new normal. Rain has always been part our Northwest identity. Wed, March 15, 2017
Weather

‘The Big Dark’: Satellite image shows future rain clouds stretching from China to Puget Sound

Insite, the first supervised safe injection site in North America, supplies individual stations and sterile supplies for users to consume drugs more safely in Vancouver, B.C.’s Downtown Eastside. The facility could serve as a model for Seattle, which may be the first city in the United States to open a safe injection site. Photographed on Oct. 6, 2016.
Health

Initiative to ban safe-injection sites in King County knocked down by judge

Salmon are brought up from a fish trap during the height of the September run of chinook up the Lower Columbia River. This fish trap was operated by the Wild Fish Conservancy, which has received grant funding to test it as a more selective way to harvest salmon. The salmon are being brought up by two Wild Fish Conservancy biologists whose backs are shown here. Justin Eastman, at left and Adrian Tuohy at right. Date: September, 2017 Dateline: Cathlamet, Wa.
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Fish traps were banned, but some now say ‘it’s the future’ for Columbia River salmon

Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Dr. Larry Nyland, Seattle Superintendent of Schools photographed in his office at the school district offices.
Education Lab

Panel advises Seattle schools on better supporting black males

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Politics

From left, Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, Alaska Division of Insurance Director Lori Wing-Heier; Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania Theresa Miller and Oklahoma Department of Insurance Commissioner John Doak, testify during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the individual health insurance market for 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) DCMC103

Insurance rates could rise 9 to 27 percent for some ACA customers, Washington state officials say

Transportation

Where in Seattle would you like an all-way walk intersection? Let us know

Education

A group of kids board their school bus shortly after 7:30am recently in the Mt. Baker neighborhood in Seattle. PROPOSED SHIFTING OF SEATTLE SCHOOLS START TIME STORY – 120748 – 050912

Seattle School District bus drivers could strike at any time

Health

From left, Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, Alaska Division of Insurance Director Lori Wing-Heier; Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania Theresa Miller and Oklahoma Department of Insurance Commissioner John Doak, testify during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the individual health insurance market for 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) DCMC103

Insurance rates could rise 9 to 27 percent for some ACA customers, Washington state officials say

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Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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A skater practices tricks at Marginal Way Skatepark on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The park is located under the WA-99 and was built and funded by skaters in 2004.
A bowl of fun under 99

Catching air at Marginal Way Skatepark in Seattle’s Industrial District  VIEW

Volunteer Russell Minas CQ is “Ticker” at the annual Puget Sound Heart walk in Seattle where almost 10,000 participated Saturday at Seattle Center. With another 3,500 in Tacoma, a total of $1.9 million was raised for the day with the 5K. Ref to more photos inside LO Linesonly Participant numbers and money raised from the American Heart Association here in Seattle.
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Thousands take part in Puget Sound Heart Walk in Seattle, Tacoma  VIEW

The sidewalk outside the Belleuve Hyatt Regency is shared by protestors and passersby prior to Betsy DeVos’ speech Friday. Hundreds gathered outside the Bellevue Hyatt Regency Hotel to protest against U.S. Dept. of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who spoke at an annual dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center. Photographed Friday, October 13, 2017. 203738
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos swings through Bellevue  VIEW

Parishioner and bell ringer John Cox show Kinder Beauvoir and Mariella Guerra what to do, and “have fun” during the cathedral’s annual recent bazaar. Northwest Wanderings on the bronze bells John Cox, with the church. bell-ringers: Kinzer Beauvoir, 9 Mariella Guerra, 8
Northwest Wanderings

Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones  VIEW

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Democracy vouchers on Friday, July 28, 2017 in Seattle Times studio. 202958

Do Seattle’s democracy vouchers work? New analysis says yes | 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

Charleena Lyles. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)

Inquest ordered in fatal police shooting of Charleena Lyles

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

Sen. Deano Rossi, R-Sammamish, left, talks with Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, right, on the Senate floor Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, on the opening day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Republican Dino Rossi raises lots of money, quickly, in race for Reichert's seat

Seattle Sketcher

This Eastlake renter is paying a lot more money for a lot less space

5 quirky things Amazon’s new headquarters city can expect

“Mighty House” is a do-it-yourself design to shelter the homeless

Hazy shade of summer: Sunset view from Columbia Center observatory

Environment

Devastated California suburb was exempt from fire rules

The destruction of Coffey Park wasn’t a mystery to fire scientists. Because it was outside the officially mapped “very severe” hazard zone, more than 5 miles to the east, it was exempt from regulations designed to make buildings fire resistant in high-risk areas.

Weather

A paddleboarder makes her way across a sparkling Green Lake as the sun begins to set behind the lake.

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Northwest Wanderings

Volunteer Russell Minas CQ is “Ticker” at the annual Puget Sound Heart walk in Seattle where almost 10,000 participated Saturday at Seattle Center. With another 3,500 in Tacoma, a total of $1.9 million was raised for the day with the 5K. Ref to more photos inside LO Linesonly Participant numbers and money raised from the American Heart Association here in Seattle.

Thousands take part in Puget Sound Heart Walk in Seattle, Tacoma  VIEW

Parishioner and bell ringer John Cox show Kinder Beauvoir and Mariella Guerra what to do, and “have fun” during the cathedral’s annual recent bazaar. Northwest Wanderings on the bronze bells John Cox, with the church. bell-ringers: Kinzer Beauvoir, 9 Mariella Guerra, 8

Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones  VIEW

Spectators on the hillside are reflected in the race course waters as Team 049 with driver Ranae Faircloth CQ and Meighan Condon open up their speed. Sprint boat racing at Webb’s Slough in St. John, Washington, Whitman County on Saturday August 26, 2017 northwest wanderings

Sprint-boat racing in Washington’s Palouse  VIEW

Terry Palmer cranks open the belly of a tractor-trailer letting 1,080 bushels of wheat descend at the McCoy grain elevator in Rosalia, Washington in Whitman County. ref to more photos online Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Northwest Wanderings column part of PNW, Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative

Harvesting wheat in Rosalia, where ‘nature is the watering can’  VIEW

Marijuana

This photo released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office shows the interior of a Delta flight after a Florida allegedly assaulted two flight attendants and attempted to open a door.

Man accused of igniting brawl on Seattle-to-Beijing flight to be released from custody

Science

In Egypt, archaeologists find part of 4,000-year-old statue

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says archaeologists have discovered the head of a wooden statue, likely belonging to a female regent who ruled the country more than 4,000 years ago. Wednesday's statement by the Antiquities Ministry says the artifact was found in the district of Saqqara, near the ancient Pyramids of Giza. It says the part...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness