Competitors young and old make their way from the starting line 26.2 miles through downtown for the Seattle Marathon in 2016. This year’s race follows roads and trails around the University of Washington instead of downtown. (Logan Riely / The Seattle Times, file)
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Seattle Marathon: Road closures, where to park and weather forecast

More than two dozen roads will be closed because of the Seattle Marathon on Saturday. It will be mostly cloudy, but marathon runners can expect to stay dry.

Politics

FILE — The U.S. Capitol as the sun begins to set in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. Republican lawmakers in line to chair key committees have made it clear they will prioritize investigations of the Biden administration. (Al Drago/The New York Times)

Meet the House Republicans who will wield power in the new Congress VIEW

Opinion

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Erwin Chemerinsky
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Jamelle Bouie
The case for Supreme Court term limits just got better | Jamelle Bouie

Local News

Election worker Patrick Schmeichel prepares to process ballots that just arrived from a ballot drop-box on Election Day at the King County Elections headquarters, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in Renton.

Where voter turnout was highest, lowest in WA midterm elections

Featured Columnist

Why I’m not celebrating Twitter’s troubles

Education Lab

Homeless students lost in the shadows, including in WA
Washington’s special education age limit is illegal, lawsuit claims
Biden to extend student loan pause as court battle drags on
After fatal shooting in school, Seattle searches for answers to gun violence

Business & Tech

Shoppers and tourists are out en masse at Pike Place Market in Seattle on November 23, 2022. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)

Seattle’s downtown retailers bet big on shoppers. Here’s what has changed. VIEW

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Nation & World

Nazmul, a migrant worker from Bangladesh, has lived and worked in Qatar for six years, walks toward Doha during the World Cup in November 2022. Thousands of the migrant workers who that prepared Qatar for the World Cup have been sent home in recent months, but thousands more like Nazmul remain, hustling for work that not so long ago was easy to find. (Tariq Panja/The New York Times) XNYT117 XNYT117

A migrant’s desperate day chasing work at the World Cup

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Food & Drink

11 months after being made, Marin Aguila still has pizzelles made by Carlene Merlino stashed away, as pictured on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022. Merlino and her family moved to Spokane one and a half years ago, but they traveled back to Seattle last year just for Kari Aguila’s cookie party.

5 Seattle-area cookie swaps that will make you believe in the power of cookies

Pacific NW Magazine

The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler

An Octavia Butler story 10 years in the making — and even more relevant now

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Arts & Life

Guidebook author Craig Romano recommends the Old Sauk River Trail for a hike on a winter day in Washington.

5 Washington outdoors experts name their favorite rainy hikes VIEW

Photography

Sugar Plum Fairy, Angelica Generosa and Cavalier, Jonathan Batista, perform together during a dress rehearsal the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at McCaw Hall in Seattle on Nov. 23, 2022.
Local News

'The Nutcracker' waltzes back onstage at PNB in Seattle VIEW

Washington’s seniors are given flowers in their farewell regular season game Wednesday against USC. 222263
Sports

Photos: UW volleyball vs. USC VIEW

Pedestrians walk and skip rocks during sunset at Lincoln Park in West Seattle on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. According to National Weather Service Seattle, Friday is the eleventh day without rain in Seattle and the sunny and dry weather will continue through Saturday. LO 222226
Local News

Photos: Mother Nature casts a spell on Seattle and beyond VIEW

Washington’s Lucas Meek (33) and Ilijah Paul tangle with Creighton’s Jake Ashford at the top of the Bluejays box in the first half. \ 222210
Huskies

Photos: UW men bounced early from NCAA soccer tourney VIEW