The crab pots were hung and the crabbers reposed Since Dungeness season was finally closed. The children were snuggled as if in a coma Induced perhaps by the pulp mill’s aroma.

I started with something simple and worked up to more complex challenges. Here are the unedited results.

Gov. Inslee is raising some money, but probably not for another gubernatorial run, while Bob Ferguson has millions left over from early easy races.

The provisional role will provide time for the local diocese to vet candidates and make a wise “fit” in calling a new prelate.

The symbolism of Biden pledging before the cameras and the eyes of the world to provide Zelensky with “whatever it takes, however long it takes,” could not have been lost on Putin.Masters of our Fate:

A new book helps explain how in the memory of people my age (boomer) we went from Christianity being as much part of the fabric of American society as baseball to having a much more tenuous and contested status.

Gluesenkamp-Perez faces an overarching task. She needs to get reelected.  Upset winners have targets on their backs when they seek a second term.

I received 80 student responses when I sent out a survey on Facebook, Instagram, and GroupMe about campus safety. The responses showed there is not a high level of trust in the University of Washington’s ability to keep students safe..

“For those die-hard fighters that still think salmon farming can be stopped, the battle was lost years ago,” Editor Drew Cherry concluded. “Salmon farming is too big to fail.”

In the coverage of the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the press has made much of the devotion of its former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried,...

The sound will bulge to more than 1,000 square miles. Beaches will all but disappear. Waves on Elliott Bay may slosh onto piers and ferry ramps will flatten.

The key party moderate will now be in charge of reclaiming the Democrats' majority in the House of Representatives.

Crypto, Bill Gates said, seemed to be “100 percent based on the greater fool theory.”

The odds against these warm places out of the rain are now very long. A city that can't keep places safe from hostile intruders. Super-heated real estate prices. Staffing shortages.

Republicans are set to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and push for an “Unleash American Energy” program that would restore and expand oil drilling in public lands and waters, mining of coal, as well as push for building more refineries and pipelines.

He was a masterful and accomplished writer, whose understanding of human nature was as sophisticated and deep as his technical and scientific knowledge.

“Writers still love them. Typewriters open a part of the brain that computers don’t.  It’s tactile, linear thinking."

If I'm courting a distributor in Georgia or wherever every conversation comes down to 'give me the price list and what are the scores?

The Democratic majorities in the Legislature have been pretty green in recent years.

Lots of roses everywhere yesterday, including banks of roses in the churches. Such a festival also means continuous ringing of church bells and fireworks all day and all night.

A week after the slide, a spokesman for the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management said, “…the hillside that collapsed had been considered ‘very safe’ and the slide came out of nowhere.”

Even a casual reader will come away from The Greatest Invention with a whole new appreciation for the miracle of written language.

Moore v Harper is a North Carolina case about extreme partisan gerrymandering. But that isn’t really the issue.

Politically, Seattle is deeply divided these days, which makes nothing certain or easy to predict, except the prospect of further political warfare.

The state of Washington has been remarkably good at improving productivity — better, in fact, than any other state in the union.

Seminal environmental battles of our region and nation are the subject of historian Douglas Brinkley’s new book.

"The new program is one more indication of how arts groups locally are busy reinventing themselves post-pandemic."

Belarus’s highest-ranking diplomat was known to resist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to bully Belarus into arming, training and deploying forces into Russia’s disastrous war.

London wrote about the Yukon gold rush, recounting tales he gleaned from saloons. Here's one about peddling frozen eggs in the Yukon.

Because Seattle is steeped in anti-fashion, the city’s contrarian attitude has become trendy.