People relax along the beach at Golden Gardens Park in June 2021. The city parks department will close Golden Gardens and Alki Beach at 10 p.m. every day this summer, an hour-and-a-half earlier than the usual closing time for city parks. (Sylvia Jarrus / The Seattle Times)
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Law & Justice

Reduced summer hours at Seattle Golden Gardens, Alki Beach to curb ‘dangerous’ and ‘illegal’ behavior

The reduced summer hours are part of a pilot program that Seattle Parks says comes after years of illegal behavior and violence that is "typical of summer evenings." Updated

Politics

An election worker transfers a ballot from one with a blurry barcode to a new one at the Clackamas County Elections office on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Oregon City, Ore. Ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by vote-counting machines will delay election results by weeks in a key U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) NYAG205 NYAG205

Ballot fiasco delays results in Oregon, vote-by-mail pioneer VIEW

Opinion

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Local News

King County Executive Dow Constantine, at a park in White Center, announced a proposal Thursday to increase property taxes to preserve 65,000 acres of trails, forest, rivers and natural lands.

Dow Constantine proposes raising King County property taxes for conservation

Featured Columnist

‘All the hurt and the rage’: Elders recall trauma of Native boarding schools

Education Lab

Students at Seattle high school plan walkout to protest new principal
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A Ballard High student was sexually abused by a coach for years. Seattle Schools settled the lawsuit for $3 million.

Business & Tech

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Boeing Starliner crew capsule lifts off on a second test flight to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux) KSC111

Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo WATCH

Featured Columnist

Redoing Pacific Place as offices is only the start to a downtown comeback

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Nation & World

Elizabeth Dillender holds a family photo of her son, Kade Webb, at her home in Montgomery, Texas, on May 2, 2022. Texas. In December, Webb bought counterfeit Percocet through a dealer on Snapchat and died of fentanyl poisoning. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)

Fentanyl-tainted pills bought on social media send U.S. youth drug deaths soaring VIEW

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Food & Drink

Chef Adam Paulin, formerly of Seattle pizza favorite The Masonry, is in charge of the wood-fired pies at Bremerton’s new Evergreen Pizza Co., and they are very good.

Find the Northwest’s best bakery — plus 5 more great places to eat — on an extra-fun day trip to Bremerton VIEW

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For a rewarding garden — and experience — think like a farmer and an artist

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Arts & Life

This is the Melody sphere at Free Spirit Spheres in British Columbia, where funky spherical pods make for a nice forested retreat.

Stay off the beaten path this summer at these 8 unique Pacific Northwest locales VIEW

Moira Macdonald’s list of must-read books for summer 2022

Photography

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.
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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 For details and prices about B-29 Doc Flight Experience, visit www.b29doc.com/rides. 220403
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‘Doc,’ the Boeing B-29 bomber, lands at Museum of Flight VIEW

Norwegian Pride was on full display as Ballard celebrated Syttende Mai with a parade. For the first time since 2019, Ballard’s Syttende Mai Parade took place celebrating Norwegian Constitution Day. 220411
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See how the Syttende Mai parade returned in style in Ballard VIEW

Scott Falkin and his daughter Mimi almost beat the University Bridge going up in the 8K race from Husky Stadium and back to it Saturday morning. Thousands participated in the fundraising event, the 40th in the series of Beat The Bridge to beat diabetes. (Nordstrom main and presenting sponsor on the website) Ref to more photos online LO Linesonly Beat the Bridge 8K 220400
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Beat the Bridge runners race to beat diabetes VIEW