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The Destination blasts through waves in the Bering Sea during the annual winter crab season. (Jack Molan)

NO RETURN: The final voyage of the crab boat Destination

The Seattle-based Destination went down without a mayday call two years ago this week, stunning a Bering Sea crabbing industry that appeared to have left its deadly legacy behind. A former crewman is haunted by what may have gone wrong in the sinking that killed his brother and five others. WATCH

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Lupine and balsamroot wildflowers bloom along the Patterson Mountain trail in Winthrop in the Methow Valley May 10, 2018. –

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U.S. Senate passes bipartisan public-lands bill pushed by Sen. Cantwell

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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is recognized before the the State of the State address in the House chamber at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia Tuesday January 15, 2019. 208952

Local Politics

Sheriffs who don’t enforce Washington’s new gun law could be liable, AG Bob Ferguson says

Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien speaks during a press conference at Taproot Theatre in the Greenwood neighborhood with business owners affected by last year’s gas explosion on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, in Seattle. 200450

Local Politics

Mike O’Brien is fourth Seattle City Council incumbent who won’t run for re-election

Terri Bean, center, 64, of Renton, is at the head of the table enjoying her friends during a holiday luncheon at The Central Area Senior Center, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018 in Seattle. Bean says she comes regularly for a nutrition/health/wellness class. 208788

Local Politics

Pressure mounts as Seattle mulls options for senior centers, food bank on valuable city properties VIEW

Fund For The Needy

Tuyet Nguyen, 63, teaches a dance class during Club Bamboo, a lunchtime program for Asian and Pacific Islander seniors at the Asian Counseling and Referral Service in Seattle Thursday December 27, 2018. Nguyen also puts a lot of energy into getting seniors more engaged in civic life, translating voting guides, voter registration forms and candidate speeches into Vietnamese. 208842

‘Voting is a duty as a citizen’: Getting new Seattle-area immigrants to cast ballots

Sherree and John Preston at their home in Renton on Thursday, December 13. Married for 25 years, Sharree is now a caregiver for her husband John who has Dementia, and has used Sound Generations services in the past. 208737

Who cares for the caregivers? While tending to her husband, Sherree Preston found the answer

Zach Hokett, right, and Bryce Hammond were matched through the Big Brothers program nearly a decade ago. Their friendship has only grown, and the two remain involved often going to sporting events or, in this case, bowling in West Seattle. Photographed Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at the West Seattle Bowl. 208650

After teen’s dad died, one man became ‘the difference between life and death’ VIEW

Fund For The Needy: Here’s how to donate

Times Watchdog

On January 14, 2019, King County Jail guards escort a prisoner to the courtroom of Judge Bill Bowman.
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King County jails corrections officers worked more than 188,000 hours of overtime last year | Times Watchdog

Bounty hunters have the right to force their way into your home — with little training and even less regulation WATCH

Politics

David Martz, a teen “locator” for the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, peers into a tent in the University District as he tries to find someone who might have seen a missing 14-year-old.

Washington handles runaway foster kids with handcuffs, shackles and jail. Is there a better way?

Project Homeless

Rob Hock, 45, and his fiance Megan Greene have been living out of a compact car. But, at the emergency winter shelter genders are separated and though warm, they had to sleep apart. They’re looking for housing and medical care.

refuge in the city and county’s emergency winter shelter, as a result of the last two weeks of storms.

Friday Feb 15, 2019

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Winter storms give Seattle an opportunity to connect with homeless people they’ve never reached before 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

Punching through the onramp to the Alaskan Way Viaduct at the foot of Columbia Street began Friday afternoon.

Demolition of the viaduct begins with punching through the Columbia Street on ramp.

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Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct begins to come down WATCH

Local News Photography

Nick Tanner photographs Gina Nakamura with animals sculpted in snow on Harbor Avenue Southwest in West Seattle Monday, February 11, 2019. Groups of people photographed the sculptures on a small hill, which sometimes offered views of the Seattle skyline when it was not snowing too hard. 209304

Local News

Photo gallery: Another snowy Monday in Seattle VIEW

These childhood photographs at the entrance to the Holocaust Center for Humanity are of survivors who have lived in the region.

(Some have passed, hence “have lived in the region.”)

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Photo Gallery

Shining a light on a dark time in Jewish history VIEW

Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Uriel Policarpio (cq) brushes off snow for his morning commute. “I’m in the medical field so I have to go in”. He’s in North Seattle on NE 85th Street. 209226

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Scenes from a snowy day around Seattle VIEW

Dylan Cate, center, and Kenneth Jose, right, train at Pacific Muay Thai CQ in White Center Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. The gym opened about two years ago and offers all ages the opportunity to learn martial arts, get in shape and learn self-defense, says coach and co-owner Eric Wilkinson CQ. “You learn a lot by getting punched in the face,” says Jose. The sport has taught him to fight complacency and to push through walls in his training and everyday life. LO 209085

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Fitness, self-defense and life lessons in White Center gym VIEW

Education

Temperatures dipped into the 20s as seen on this sign along 44th Avenue West at a closed Mountlake Terrace High School on Monday, February 4, 2019. 209228

How Puget Sound-area school districts will make up days lost to historic snowfall

Education Lab

Testing the waters: Lead exceeds acceptable levels in water at many Seattle schools

‘I’ve never had a black teacher’: Seattle-area students share how educators’ lack of diversity affects them

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

To save on surgery, out-of-state patients travel to Washington’s Longview

A year and a half ago, Anita Graves’ doctor told her her right knee needed to be replaced. However, rather than undergoing the procedure near her home in Omaha, Neb., where the surgery would cost about $50,000, Graves saved $13,000 by having it at the Pacific Surgical Center in Longview. “It was a miracle, because...

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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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

Data

Downtown Bellevue is the city’s fastest growing residential neighborhood. The Bellevue Towers, a high rise condominium complex in downtown Bellevue, center and the new Centre 425 building which will be leased by Amazon.com is at right. Photographed on April 18th, 2017. 201605

The ‘Nextdoor effect’ in Bellevue: a familiar reaction to crime | FYI Guy

Crime

Man fatally shot in Everett Jack in the Box parking lot

Multiple witnesses told police two suspects who knew the victim were involved.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

A glimpse of Lynnwood of 100 years ago includes this storybook cottage

Take a few last looks at the Alaskan Way Viaduct, through Seattle Sketcher’s eyes

Fremont Troll has new neighbors, gets ready for a holiday party

‘Gateway’ leads to happiness in this busy, beloved Chinatown park

Eastside

How Puget Sound-area school districts will make up days lost to historic snowfall

Environment

FILE – In this June 18, 2018 file photo, equipment used to test for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known collectively as PFAS, in drinking water is seen at Trident Laboratories in Holland, Mich. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a plan for dealing with a class of long-lasting chemical contaminants amid complaints from members of Congress and environmentalists that it’s not moved aggressively enough to regulate them.
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As EPA announces plan to tackle chemical pollution in drinking water, Washington looks to write its own rules

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

First private Israel lunar mission to be launched this week

YEHUD, Israel (AP) — An Israeli nonprofit says it'll launch what it hopes will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon this week. SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told reporters on Monday that the landing craft, dubbed Beresheet, or Genesis, will ship from Florida, where, propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket...